Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0Sneads has lower household incomes than 97% of U.S. towns
21.8% of residents are in poverty; Florida has 12.6%. The two grades for Sneads are D− for jobs and income and D for walkability. Home is the office for 7% of workers; Florida has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Sneads in brief
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Sneads
On income, poverty and job access, Sneads is near the bottom of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Sneads’ grade.
Unemployment (6.3%) is left out: Sneads’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Sneads could be anywhere from D− to D.
How many miles Sneads commutes
About 37% 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.
Who leaves Sneads for work, and who comes in
On a workday 521 residents head out to work, 20 work right here, and 211 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Sneads on a workday afternoon, 17% fewer than live here.
0.43 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Where Sneads’ working residents head each day
Where Sneads clocks in
16% of workers
14% of workers
4% 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 the 231 jobs in Sneads are
231 jobs are based in Sneads.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sneads, 2013 → 2023: 211 → 231. 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 Sneads’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Sneads: about 28 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sneads workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 648 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.
Sneads is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Sneads is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Sneads 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 696 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). 2.4% of Sneads households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sneads’ commuters take a bus or train.
Where Sneads sits among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 103 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 129 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 134 | Lake Mary Jane FL | 1,792 | $146K | 0.0% | 3.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,938 | Samson AL | 1,891 | $33K | 37.4% | 11.6% | 10% | D− |
| 5,939 | Carbon Hill AL | 1,723 | $25K | 39.4% | 2.3% | 4% | D− |
| 5,940 | Sneads FL | 1,784 | $39K | 21.8% | 6.3% | 4% | D− |
| 5,941 | Jackson KY | 2,054 | $33K | 27.1% | 12.3% | 35% | D− |
| 5,942 | Drew MS | 1,658 | $24K | 34.6% | 13.7% | 3% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Sneads, 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 Sneads: questions
What is the median household income in Sneads?
$38,889 (±$5,530) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sneads?
21.8%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sneads?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sneads work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Marianna (16%, 19 mi), Chattahoochee (14%, 6 mi), Tallahassee (4%, 44 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sneads walkable?
Sneads is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sneads without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sneads, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sneads
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.