St. Augustine Shores has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Only 4% work in St. Augustine Shores; the top destination outside it is Jacksonville (19%, 42 miles). 1,240 jobs are based in St. Augustine Shores, against 3,771 working residents. Jobs and income earn St. Augustine Shores B; getting around on foot earns it B−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from St. Augustine Shores, in brief
Jobs in St. Augustine Shores have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in St. Augustine Shores went from 457 in 2013 to 1,240 in 2023, +171%. The jobs ↓
St. Augustine Shores’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside St. Augustine Shores is Jacksonville, 42 miles away as the crow flies. 19% of working residents (723) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Commutes from St. Augustine Shores 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 ↓
St. Augustine Shores makes and builds things
41% of the jobs based in St. Augustine Shores are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs St. Augustine Shores residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 11%. 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
The figures behind St. Augustine Shores’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, St. Augustine Shores is better than 61% of U.S. towns, #239 of 638 in Florida. The poverty rate holds St. Augustine Shores’ grade up (5.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 41% of U.S. towns). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, St. Augustine Shores could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Factories, building and farms: 41% of the jobs in St. Augustine Shores
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in St. Augustine Shores, 2013 → 2023: 457 → 1,240. 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 St. Augustine Shores’s own residents hold wherever they work.
St. Augustine Shores’ commute, mile by mile
About 22% 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.
About 21 minutes each way, quicker than most of Florida
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of St. Augustine Shores workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,456 commuters (the 17% 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.
Who leaves St. Augustine Shores for work, and who comes in
On a workday 3,639 residents head out to work, 132 work right here, and 1,108 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,900 people are in St. Augustine Shores on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
Where St. Augustine Shores goes to work
Where St. Augustine Shores clocks in
19% of workers
17% of workers
3% 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.
For most of St. Augustine Shores, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, St. Augustine Shores is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns, #465 of 638 in Florida. Both inputs place St. Augustine Shores 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 4,188 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 10% 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 3.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 77% 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). 2.0% of St. Augustine Shores households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of St. Augustine Shores’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, St. Augustine Shores is 1,375th of 2,831 U.S. towns of 6,600 to 12,800
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Southwest Ranches FL | 7,773 | $161K | 3.8% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 178 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 340 | Westlake FL | 9,042 | $132K | 3.2% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,373 | Sellersburg IN | 10,305 | $72K | 6.9% | 5.5% | 5% | B |
| 1,374 | Pilot Point TX | 8,052 | $98K | 8.5% | 6.3% | 10% | B |
| 1,375 | St. Augustine Shores FL | 9,462 | $74K | 5.0% | 3.6% | 4% | B |
| 1,376 | Porters Neck NC | 7,654 | $120K | 3.8% | 12.5% | 6% | B |
| 1,377 | Mammoth Lakes CA | 6,867 | $98K | 6.1% | 3.3% | 52% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,831 | 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 St. Augustine Shores, 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 St. Augustine Shores: questions
What is the median household income in St. Augustine Shores?
$73,688 (±$7,374) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in St. Augustine Shores?
5.0%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from St. Augustine Shores?
21 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in St. Augustine Shores work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jacksonville (19%, 42 mi), St. Augustine (17%, 6 mi), St. Augustine Beach (3%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is St. Augustine Shores walkable?
St. Augustine Shores is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around St. Augustine Shores without a car?
2% 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 St. Augustine Shores, from the people who make the trip.
More of St. Augustine Shores
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.