Photo: Piperpet · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Seffner works elsewhere
Jobs and income earn Seffner B+; getting around on foot earns it B. Seffner has 1,377 jobs, and 3,936 of its residents work somewhere. Only 2% work in Seffner itself; outside it, Tampa draws the most (27%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Seffner: the gist
Jobs & income in Seffner: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Seffner is better than 70% of U.S. towns, #181 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Seffner’s grade up (ahead of 86% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (11.7%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Seffner could be anywhere from C+ to A+.
What Seffner’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Seffner, 2013 → 2023: 1,038 → 1,377. 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 Seffner’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In and out of Seffner on a workday
On a workday 3,867 residents head out to work, 69 work right here, and 1,308 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,300 people are in Seffner on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
Commuting out of Seffner: the destinations
Where Seffner clocks in
27% of workers
7% 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.
Commuting from Seffner: about 25 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Seffner workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,596 commuters (the 18% 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.
Where in the region Seffner works
About 18% 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 Seffner start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Seffner is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns, #384 of 638 in Florida. Both inputs place Seffner 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 4,393 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of 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). 2.3% of Seffner households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Seffner’s commuters take a bus or train.
Seffner places 1,137th of 2,907 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 6,200 to 12,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 3 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 40 | Southwest Ranches FL | 7,773 | $161K | 3.8% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 184 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 345 | Westlake FL | 9,042 | $132K | 3.2% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,135 | Woodlawn MD | 7,750 | $93K | 5.3% | 10.9% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,136 | Doney Park AZ | 6,253 | $105K | 6.1% | 2.6% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,137 | Seffner FL | 8,885 | $93K | 11.7% | 4.0% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,138 | Southside AL | 9,718 | $76K | 4.4% | 2.9% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,139 | Black Jack MO | 6,547 | $78K | 5.0% | 6.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,907 | 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 Seffner, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Next door to Seffner
The biggest share goes to Brandon (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Seffner’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Seffner: questions
What is the median household income in Seffner?
$93,333 (±$18,680) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Seffner?
11.7%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Seffner?
25 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Seffner work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tampa (27%, 12 mi), East Lake-Orient Park (8%, 6 mi), Brandon (7%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Seffner walkable?
Seffner is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.6 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Seffner without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Seffner, from the people who make the trip.
More of Seffner
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.