Safety Harbor Site · Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY 2.5Safety Harbor’s household incomes are higher than in 82% of U.S. towns
Jobs & income A: better than 90% of U.S. towns on income, poverty, unemployment and job access · #37 of 638 in Florida.
Walkability A−: more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns · #211 of 638 in Florida.
Working residents average 25 minutes each way (Florida 28, U.S. 26). About one in ten work in Safety Harbor; the top destination outside it is Tampa (13%, 14 miles).
Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 1.2 transit trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 6.0 in Tampa (EPA, 2020 schedules).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Safety Harbor, in brief
Safety Harbor trades workers with the towns around it
Safety Harbor has about as many jobs (8,325) as working residents (7,237), but they are mostly different people: 6,608 residents leave for work each day while 7,696 people come in. Only 8% of the jobs in Safety Harbor are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of Safety Harbor works from home
27% of Safety Harbor workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. 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.
What’s behind Safety Harbor’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Safety Harbor is better than 90% of U.S. towns, #37 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 90% of U.S. towns); unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (3.2%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Safety Harbor could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 6,608 residents head out to work, 629 work right here, and 7,696 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 (1.15 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.
About 25 minutes each way, quicker than most of Florida
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Safety Harbor workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6,190 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.
13% of working residents work in Tampa
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Safety Harbor clocks in
13% of workers
12% of workers
9% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
What the 8,325 jobs in Safety Harbor are
8,325 jobs are based in Safety Harbor. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Safety Harbor’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Safety Harbor, 2013 → 2023: 8,106 → 8,325. 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.
Half of Safety Harbor commutes less than 10 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 15% 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.
Safety Harbor is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Safety Harbor is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns, #211 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.9% 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 8,441 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 89% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 10% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 61% 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). 5.6% of Safety Harbor households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Safety Harbor’s commuters take a bus or train.
Safety Harbor is 345th of 1,888 U.S. towns of 12,000 to 22,000 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Safety Harbor, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 69 | Pinecrest FL | 18,635 | $206K | 4.3% | 3.0% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 88 | Lake Butler FL | 17,125 | $183K | 3.7% | 2.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 115 | Palm Valley FL | 19,796 | $117K | 4.2% | 1.2% | 13% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 343 | Newington Forest VA | 12,316 | $149K | 3.1% | 5.6% | 1% | A |
| 344 | Midlothian VA | 19,120 | $110K | 3.2% | 4.0% | 4% | A |
| 345 | Safety Harbor FL | 16,624 | $107K | 6.1% | 3.2% | 9% | A |
| 346 | Iowa Colony TX | 20,503 | $144K | 4.3% | 4.9% | <1% | A |
| 347 | Monroe CT | 19,341 | $157K | 2.6% | 4.9% | 10% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,888 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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.
12% of Safety Harbor works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Clearwater (12%). Darker towns draw more of Safety Harbor’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Safety Harbor workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Safety Harbor | – | A | A− | 25 min | $106,830 |
| Clearwater | 12% | B− | A+ | 23 min | $66,381 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
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 Safety Harbor: questions
What is the median household income in Safety Harbor?
$106,830 (±$17,588) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Safety Harbor?
6.1%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Safety Harbor?
25 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 27% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Safety Harbor work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tampa (13%, 14 mi), Clearwater (12%, 5 mi), Largo (9%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Safety Harbor walkable?
Safety Harbor is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 12.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Safety Harbor without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 10% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Safety Harbor, from the people who make the trip.
More of Safety Harbor
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.