Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes put Quincy near the very bottom of U.S. towns
42.7% of residents live below the poverty line, next to 12.6% for Florida as a whole. Household incomes here are among the lowest in the country. For jobs and income Quincy is better than 12% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (C+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Quincy at work: what stands out
Quincy trades workers with the towns around it
Quincy has about as many jobs (3,208) as working residents (2,776), but they are mostly different people: 2,410 residents leave for work each day while 2,842 people come in. Only 11% of the jobs in Quincy are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
37% of Quincy works in Tallahassee
1,018 working residents, 37%, have their main job in Tallahassee, 21 miles away. That’s 3 times as many as work in Quincy itself. The commute map ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Quincy than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Quincy fell from 4,472 in 2013 to 3,208 in 2023, −28%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. 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.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Quincy
Unemployment holds Quincy’s grade up (4.1%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Quincy could be anywhere from D− to C.
The daily commute in and out of Quincy
On a workday 2,410 residents head out to work, 366 work right here, and 2,842 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.16 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
37% of working residents work in Tallahassee
Where Quincy clocks in
37% 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.
What work there is in Quincy: 3,208 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Quincy, 2013 → 2023: 4,472 → 3,208. 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 Quincy’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 31 minutes each way for Quincy’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Quincy workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,163 commuters (the 7% 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 many miles Quincy commutes
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.
Most trips from Quincy start in a car
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 2,314 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). 29.5% of Quincy households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Quincy’s commuters take a bus or train.
Quincy next to U.S. towns of 5,700 to 11,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Southwest Ranches FL | 7,773 | $161K | 3.8% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 180 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 338 | Westlake FL | 9,042 | $132K | 3.2% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,767 | Lancaster SC | 9,623 | $46K | 21.2% | 9.6% | 16% | D |
| 2,768 | Madison Township KS | 9,403 | $56K | 10.9% | 14.4% | 4% | D |
| 2,769 | Quincy FL | 8,162 | $32K | 42.7% | 4.1% | 13% | D |
| 2,770 | Canton NY | 6,894 | $62K | 19.8% | 6.5% | 28% | D |
| 2,771 | Pauls Valley OK | 6,157 | $50K | 24.4% | 5.2% | 36% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,007 | 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 Quincy, 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 Quincy: questions
What is the median household income in Quincy?
$32,125 (±$10,534) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Quincy?
42.7%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Quincy?
31 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Quincy work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tallahassee (37%, 21 mi), Chattahoochee (4%, 17 mi), Jacksonville (2%, 175 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Quincy walkable?
Quincy is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 8.0 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Quincy without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 30% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Quincy, from the people who make the trip.
More of Quincy
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.