Photo: William “Patrick” Ma… · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Sebring trail those of 93% of U.S. towns
About one in five work in Sebring itself; outside it, Avon Park draws the most (4%, 9 miles). Below the poverty line: 24.1% of residents; Florida has 12.6%. For jobs and income Sebring is better than 10% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns (A−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Sebring apart
No single place dominates Sebring’s commute
The biggest draw, Avon Park, gets only 4% of working residents, and 67% work outside the top ten towns entirely. Sebring residents fan out across the region. The commute map ↓
Sebring draws workers from far and wide
The 9,369 jobs in Sebring are filled from a wide area. Sebring’s own residents hold 9% and the ten next-biggest home towns 9%; the other 82% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Sebring is where the jobs are
Sebring has 9,369 jobs, 2.2 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 17,000 people are in town, 43% more than the 12,000 who live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
46% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Commutes from Sebring are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 28 across Florida. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Florida worker. 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.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Sebring
Job access by car holds Sebring’s grade up (ahead of 35% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($44,184, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Sebring could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Where the people who work in Sebring live
Where Sebring clocks in
4% of workers
2% of workers
1% 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.
A workday in Sebring: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 3,370 residents head out to work, 834 work right here, and 8,535 people come in from elsewhere.
About 17,000 people are in Sebring on a workday afternoon, 43% more than live here.
2.2 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
The distance from Sebring to work
About 46% 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.
Getting to work from Sebring takes about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sebring workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,648 commuters (the 9% 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.
What work there is in Sebring: 9,369 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sebring, 2013 → 2023: 8,251 → 9,369. 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 Sebring’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Sebring
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 8.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,022 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). 9.8% of Sebring households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Sebring’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Sebring compares with U.S. towns of 8,000 to 16,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 255 | Key Biscayne FL | 14,815 | $182K | 5.5% | 2.8% | 12% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 326 | Asbury Lake FL | 14,458 | $101K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 351 | Westlake FL | 9,042 | $132K | 3.2% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,549 | Thomaston GA | 9,852 | $39K | 28.1% | 4.5% | 21% | D |
| 2,550 | Big Bear City CA | 11,431 | $72K | 16.1% | 9.8% | 7% | D |
| 2,551 | Sebring FL | 12,059 | $44K | 24.1% | 5.9% | 20% | D |
| 2,552 | Cairo GA | 10,150 | $41K | 28.8% | 5.2% | 28% | D |
| 2,553 | Campbellsville KY | 11,783 | $50K | 23.4% | 7.4% | 38% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 2,695 | Roma TX | 11,543 | $25K | 37.1% | 12.4% | 22% | 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 Sebring, 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 Sebring: questions
What is the median household income in Sebring?
$44,184 (±$5,412) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sebring?
24.1%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sebring?
21 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sebring work?
20% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Avon Park (4%, 9 mi), Lakeland (2%, 51 mi), Winter Haven (1%, 43 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sebring walkable?
Sebring is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.2 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sebring without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sebring, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sebring
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.