Photo: Excel23 · CC BY-SA 4.0Work means Jacksonville for more than half of Neptune Beach’s working residents
Measured by household income, Neptune Beach is ahead of 88% of U.S. towns. The two grades for Neptune Beach are A+ for jobs and income and B for walkability. Home is the office for 27% of workers, against 16% across Florida.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Neptune Beach apart on work
The better-paid jobs are outside Neptune Beach
64% of Neptune Beach residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 39% of the jobs based in Neptune Beach pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 94% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Home offices are common in Neptune Beach
27% of Neptune Beach workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Time on the road ↓
Commutes from Neptune Beach are quick
The average trip to work takes 22 minutes, against 28 across Florida. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Florida worker. Time on the road ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
33% of the jobs based in Neptune Beach are held by workers 29 or younger, against 20% of Neptune Beach’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
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.
The figures behind Neptune Beach’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Neptune Beach is better than 96% of U.S. towns, #10 of 638 in Florida. The poverty rate is its strongest input (3.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 76% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Neptune Beach could be anywhere from A to A+.
What the 2,283 jobs in Neptune Beach are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Neptune Beach, 2013 → 2023: 1,896 → 2,283. 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 Neptune Beach’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Neptune Beach: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Neptune Beach workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,217 commuters (the 27% 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 leaves Neptune Beach for work, and who comes in
On a workday 3,229 residents head out to work, 217 work right here, and 2,066 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,900 people are in Neptune Beach on a workday afternoon, 17% fewer than live here.
0.66 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Commuting out of Neptune Beach: the destinations
Where Neptune Beach clocks in
55% of workers
8% 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.
Neptune Beach’s commute, mile by mile
About 18% 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 Neptune Beach commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Neptune Beach is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns, #382 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.4% 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 4,387 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 83% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 18% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 52% 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). 2.6% of Neptune Beach households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Neptune Beach’s commuters take a bus or train.
Neptune Beach is 180th of 3,227 U.S. towns of 4,900 to 9,500 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 43 | Southwest Ranches FL | 7,773 | $161K | 3.8% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 178 | Pequea Township PA | 6,372 | $109K | 4.1% | 0.0% | 5% | A+ |
| 179 | Lakes of the Four Seasons IN | 7,402 | $122K | 3.1% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| 180 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| 181 | Bernardsville NJ | 7,966 | $236K | 1.1% | 4.3% | 8% | A+ |
| 182 | Miami Heights OH | 5,269 | $118K | 2.5% | 2.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 338 | Westlake FL | 9,042 | $132K | 3.2% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| 339 | Orangetree FL | 6,084 | $113K | 3.8% | 0.6% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,227 | 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 Neptune Beach, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Bordering towns draw 67% of Neptune Beach’s workers
The biggest share goes to Jacksonville (55%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Neptune Beach workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neptune Beach | – | A+ | B | 22 min | $119,294 |
| Atlantic Beach | 4% | A− | A | 26 min | $118,935 |
| Jacksonville Beach | 8% | A+ | A | 24 min | $120,698 |
| Jacksonville | 55% | B− | A− | 24 min | $69,872 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Neptune 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 Neptune Beach: questions
What is the median household income in Neptune Beach?
$119,294 (±$10,570) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Neptune Beach?
3.1%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Neptune Beach?
22 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 27% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Neptune Beach work?
6% work in town.
Is Neptune Beach walkable?
Neptune Beach is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 14.3 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Neptune Beach without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 18% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Neptune Beach, from the people who make the trip.
More of Neptune 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.