A job hub: Miramar Beach has 3.1 jobs per working resident, and 8,682 people come in to work
Miramar Beach has 9,635 jobs, and 3,140 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Miramar Beach B; getting around on foot earns it B+. 24% of workers work from home (Florida 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Miramar Beach in brief
Miramar Beach has far more jobs than workers
Miramar Beach has 9,635 jobs, 3.1 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 15,000 people are in town, 73% more than the 8,900 who live here. Day and night ↓
Miramar Beach draws workers from far and wide
The 9,635 jobs in Miramar Beach are filled from a wide area. Miramar Beach’s own residents hold 10% and the ten next-biggest home towns 25%; the other 65% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
A lot of Miramar Beach works from home
25% of Miramar Beach workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Time on the road ↓
Commutes from Miramar Beach are quick
The average trip to work takes 23 minutes, against 28 across Florida. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Florida worker. 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.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Miramar Beach
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Miramar Beach is better than 62% of U.S. towns, #237 of 638 in Florida. The poverty rate holds Miramar Beach’s grade up (4.5%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (5.7%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Miramar Beach could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Who leaves Miramar Beach for work, and who comes in
On a workday 2,187 residents head out to work and 953 work right here.
About 15,000 people are in Miramar Beach on a workday afternoon, 73% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Miramar Beach’s workforce comes from
Where Miramar Beach clocks in
11% 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.
About 23 minutes to work from Miramar Beach
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Miramar Beach workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,929 commuters (the 25% 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.
What Miramar Beach’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Miramar Beach, 2013 → 2023: 8,343 → 9,635. 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 Miramar Beach’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Miramar Beach
About 20% 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.
Most of Miramar Beach commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Miramar Beach is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns, #345 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.7% of 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 3,881 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). 2.7% of Miramar Beach households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Miramar Beach’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Miramar Beach is 1,397th among 2,907 U.S. towns of 6,200 to 12,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 3 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 40 | Southwest Ranches FL | 7,773 | $161K | 3.8% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 184 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 345 | Westlake FL | 9,042 | $132K | 3.2% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,395 | Acton CA | 7,880 | $113K | 13.1% | 3.3% | 5% | B |
| 1,396 | Half Moon NC | 7,378 | $69K | 7.9% | 1.3% | 1% | B |
| 1,397 | Miramar Beach FL | 8,902 | $103K | 4.5% | 5.7% | 30% | B |
| 1,398 | Grand Ledge MI | 7,853 | $69K | 6.2% | 4.6% | 8% | B |
| 1,399 | Stafford CT | 11,721 | $93K | 7.4% | 5.8% | 16% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,907 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Miramar Beach, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
11% of Miramar Beach works in a bordering town
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Miramar Beach workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miramar Beach | – | B | B+ | 23 min | $103,250 |
| Destin | 11% | B+ | A− | 26 min | $89,011 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Destin. Darker towns draw more of Miramar Beach’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Miramar Beach: questions
What is the median household income in Miramar Beach?
$103,250 (±$26,485) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Miramar Beach?
4.5%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Miramar Beach?
23 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 24% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Miramar Beach work?
30% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Destin (11%, 7 mi), Fort Walton Beach (4%, 17 mi), Tallahassee (2%, 125 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Miramar Beach walkable?
Miramar Beach is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 9.4 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Miramar Beach without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Miramar Beach, from the people who make the trip.
More of Miramar Beach
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.