Pine Air has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Employers in Pine Air report 303 jobs, and 878 of its residents work somewhere. Pine Air grades C for jobs and income and A+ for walkability. Household incomes here are lower than in 80% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Pine Air: the figures worth knowing
Most Pine Air residents work close to home
64% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
Few Pine Air 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 878 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Pine Air: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Pine Air is better than 33% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Pine Air’s grade up (ahead of 88% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (26.0%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (3.6%) is left out: Pine Air’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, Pine Air could be anywhere from C to A−.
How far it is to work from Pine Air
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.
Commuting from Pine Air: about 24 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pine Air workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 867 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.
A workday in Pine Air: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 871 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 296 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Pine Air on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
18% of working residents work in West Palm Beach
Where Pine Air clocks in
10% of workers
4% 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 Pine Air
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pine Air, 2013 → 2023: 269 → 303. 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 Pine Air’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Good to walk, short on transit: Pine Air
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pine Air is more walkable than 96% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Pine Air near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 884 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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 Pine Air households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 5% of Pine Air’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Pine Air is 3,106th of 5,102 U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 86 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 88 | Pelican Marsh FL | 2,617 | $143K | 2.7% | 1.5% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 115 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,104 | Brown Township OH | 2,130 | $73K | 10.1% | 0.0% | 1% | C |
| 3,105 | Brady Township PA | 1,899 | $67K | 9.6% | 7.0% | 3% | C |
| 3,106 | Pine Air FL | 2,258 | $56K | 26.0% | 3.6% | 1% | C |
| 3,107 | Lyman MS | 2,298 | $75K | 20.8% | 2.0% | 1% | C |
| 3,108 | Spirit Lake ID | 2,485 | $65K | 6.7% | 3.7% | 4% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,102 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Pine Air, 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 Pine Air: questions
What is the median household income in Pine Air?
$55,881 (±$7,520) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pine Air?
26.0%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pine Air?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pine Air work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are West Palm Beach (18%, 6 mi), Palm Springs (10%, 2 mi), Boynton Beach (4%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pine Air walkable?
Pine Air is more walkable than 96% of U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 14.8 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pine Air without a car?
5% 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 Pine Air, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pine Air
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.