Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Ponce de Leon works elsewhere
83 jobs are based in Ponce de Leon; 205 of its residents have a job. Only 2% work in Ponce de Leon itself; outside it, DeFuniak Springs draws the most (13%, 11 miles). 3% of workers work from home; Florida has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Ponce de Leon
Getting to work from Ponce de Leon takes about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ponce de Leon workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 353 commuters (the 3% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Ponce de Leon
On a workday 201 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 79 people come in from elsewhere.
About 400 people are in Ponce de Leon on a workday afternoon, 23% 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 Ponce de Leon commutes to
Where Ponce de Leon clocks in
13% 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.
Jobs in Ponce de Leon: what the 83 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ponce de Leon, 2013 → 2023: 32 → 83. 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 Ponce de Leon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Ponce de Leon, by distance
About 21% 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.
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 Ponce de Leon: questions
What is the median household income in Ponce de Leon?
$77,798 (±$24,769) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ponce de Leon?
11.9%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ponce de Leon?
31 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ponce de Leon work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are DeFuniak Springs (13%, 11 mi), Bonifay (8%, 15 mi), Panama City (5%, 41 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Ponce de Leon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ponce de Leon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ponce de Leon
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.