Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Mayo trail those of 82% of U.S. towns
2% of workers work from home, next to 16% for Florida as a whole. 21.4% of residents live below the poverty line; Florida has 12.6%. For jobs and income Mayo is better than 3% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 11% of U.S. towns (D).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Mayo apart on work
A big share show a job far from home
37% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Few Mayo workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 436 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Mayo: the grade in detail
Household income holds Mayo’s grade up ($54,375, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (9.3%) is left out: Mayo’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Mayo could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Near or far: the trip to work from Mayo
About 37% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Time on the road from Mayo: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mayo workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 344 commuters (the 2% who work from home are left out). Across Florida: 83% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Who commutes out of Mayo, and who commutes in
On a workday 380 residents head out to work, 56 work right here, and 454 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.17 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
6% of working residents work in Gainesville
Where Mayo clocks in
6% of workers
5% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Mayo
510 jobs are based in Mayo.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mayo, 2013 → 2023: 521 → 510. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Mayo’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Most of Mayo commutes by car
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.6% across Florida.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 352 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 13.8% of Mayo households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mayo’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, and where Mayo sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Fisher Island FL | 1,026 | $250K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 78 | Golden Beach FL | 1,029 | $236K | 7.1% | 2.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 211 | Yalaha FL | 1,404 | $121K | 0.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,523 | Troy ME | 1,116 | $45K | 17.8% | 3.8% | 1% | D− |
| 3,524 | Freeborn Township MO | 1,369 | $46K | 27.0% | 1.7% | 12% | D− |
| 3,525 | Mayo FL | 1,119 | $54K | 21.4% | 9.3% | 13% | D− |
| 3,526 | Arlington GA | 1,126 | $48K | 22.6% | 3.1% | 5% | D− |
| 3,527 | Manchester KY | 1,411 | $24K | 41.1% | 9.5% | 24% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Mayo, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Mayo: questions
What is the median household income in Mayo?
$54,375 (±$22,788) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mayo?
21.4%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mayo?
30 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mayo work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Gainesville (6%, 56 mi), Perry (5%, 25 mi), Live Oak (5%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mayo walkable?
Mayo is more walkable than 11% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mayo without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mayo, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mayo
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.