With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Molino works elsewhere
Molino has 47 jobs, against 482 working residents. The two grades for Molino are C+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Hardly any work in Molino itself; outside it, Pensacola draws the most (24%, 20 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Molino, in a few figures
Where Molino’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Molino is better than 35% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Molino’s grade up (8.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 11% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Molino’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Molino could be anywhere from D to B+.
In and out of Molino on a workday
On a workday 479 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 44 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Molino on a workday afternoon, 30% fewer 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.
The places Molino commutes to
Where Molino clocks in
24% 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.
The kinds of work in Molino
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Molino, 2013 → 2023: 42 → 47. 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 Molino’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Molino: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Molino workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 816 commuters (the 9% 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.
How far it is to work from Molino
About 17% 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.
For most of Molino, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Molino is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 13.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 3.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 899 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 47% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Molino households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Molino’s commuters take a bus or train.
Molino places 3,213th of 6,308 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Fisher Island FL | 1,026 | $250K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 120 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 126 | Lake Mary Jane FL | 1,792 | $146K | 0.0% | 3.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,211 | Franconia NH | 1,143 | $87K | 11.4% | 3.2% | 13% | C+ |
| 3,212 | Gerry NY | 1,718 | $69K | 9.0% | 1.2% | 6% | C+ |
| 3,213 | Molino FL | 1,447 | $75K | 8.2% | 0.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 3,214 | Springdale NC | 1,075 | $55K | 19.0% | 0.0% | <1% | C+ |
| 3,215 | Biggs CA | 1,927 | $85K | 7.4% | 11.1% | 3% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | 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 Molino, 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 Molino: questions
What is the median household income in Molino?
$74,753 (±$31,587) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Molino?
8.2%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Molino?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Molino work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pensacola (24%, 20 mi), Ferry Pass (6%, 15 mi), Brent (5%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Molino walkable?
Molino is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 3.9 out of 20, and 13% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Molino without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Molino, from the people who make the trip.
More of Molino
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.