Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 4.0Tallahassee draws more than half of Midway’s working residents
Only 3% stay in Midway for work; outside it, Tallahassee is the main destination (58%, 14 miles). Jobs and income earn Midway C; getting around on foot earns it B−. Working residents average 31 minutes each way, where Florida has 28 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Midway: the figures worth knowing
Jobs in Midway have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Midway went from 756 in 2013 to 2,175 in 2023, +188%. The jobs ↓
More than half of Midway works in Tallahassee
820 working residents, 58%, have their main job in Tallahassee, 14 miles away. That’s 19 times as many as work in Midway itself. The commute map ↓
Midway makes and builds things
47% of the jobs based in Midway are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Midway residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 10%. The jobs ↓
Midway is where the jobs are
Midway has 2,175 jobs, 1.5 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Midway
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Midway is better than 31% of U.S. towns, #499 of 638 in Florida. Unemployment holds Midway’s grade up (4.3%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (15.6%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Midway could be anywhere from D to B+.
Midway makes things: 47% of its jobs are in goods
2,175 jobs are based in Midway.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Midway, 2013 → 2023: 756 → 2,175. 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 Midway’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Midway’s workers come from
Where Midway clocks in
58% of workers
4% of workers
2% 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.
Who commutes out of Midway, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,363 residents head out to work, 47 work right here, and 2,128 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,200 people are in Midway on a workday afternoon, 22% more than live here.
1.5 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
From Midway, about 31 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Midway workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,309 commuters (the 10% 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.
Midway’s commute, mile by mile
About 19% 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.
Driving is how Midway gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Midway is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns, #453 of 638 in Florida. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 5.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,451 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). 14.8% of Midway households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Midway’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Midway is 3,184th of 4,535 U.S. towns of 2,400 to 4,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 45 | Bay Hill FL | 4,512 | $128K | 0.7% | 1.5% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 82 | Geneva FL | 3,441 | $133K | 0.6% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 84 | Windermere FL | 3,344 | $178K | 1.3% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,182 | Davenport NY | 2,932 | $80K | 7.2% | 11.3% | 9% | C |
| 3,183 | Castleton VT | 4,411 | $74K | 12.5% | 4.8% | 16% | C |
| 3,184 | Midway FL | 3,482 | $63K | 15.6% | 4.3% | 3% | C |
| 3,185 | Riverside MO | 4,581 | $52K | 17.3% | 6.5% | 6% | C |
| 3,186 | Braceville Township OH | 2,436 | $49K | 14.1% | 2.0% | 3% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,535 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Midway, 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 Midway: questions
What is the median household income in Midway?
$63,381 (±$12,798) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Midway?
15.6%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Midway?
31 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Midway work?
3% work in town.
Is Midway walkable?
Midway is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Midway without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 15% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Midway, from the people who make the trip.
More of Midway
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.