Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 2.5St. Leo’s household incomes are higher than in 74% of U.S. towns
St. Leo grades C+ for jobs and income and A for walkability. Below the poverty line: 20.9% of residents, where Florida as a whole has 12.6%. Home is the office for 35% of workers (Florida 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in St. Leo: the gist
St. Leo’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside St. Leo is Tampa, 29 miles away as the crow flies. 15% of working residents (131) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A lot of St. Leo works from home
35% of St. Leo workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Time on the road ↓
Commutes from St. Leo are quick
The average trip to work takes 16 minutes, against 28 across Florida. That’s about 92 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; with 865 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in St. Leo
On income, poverty and job access, St. Leo is better than 45% of U.S. towns. Household income holds St. Leo’s grade up ($96,389, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down. It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (16.4%) is left out: St. Leo’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, St. Leo could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Half of St. Leo commutes less than 29 miles
About 26% 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 St. Leo takes about 16 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of St. Leo workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 346 commuters (the 35% 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.
A workday in St. Leo: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 854 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 650 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 (0.76 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.
15% of working residents work in Tampa
Where St. Leo clocks in
15% 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.
St. Leo is a services town
661 jobs are based in St. Leo.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in St. Leo, 2013 → 2023: 926 → 661. 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. Leo’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In St. Leo, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, St. Leo is more walkable than 94% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 28.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 9.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 530 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). 0.0% of St. Leo households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of St. Leo’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,581st of 5,207: where St. Leo ranks among U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 95 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 97 | Pelican Marsh FL | 2,617 | $143K | 2.7% | 1.5% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 127 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,579 | Farmington Township OH | 2,928 | $63K | 16.6% | 2.0% | 5% | B− |
| 2,580 | Pinetop Country Club AZ | 2,054 | $80K | 5.7% | 5.9% | 5% | B− |
| 2,581 | St. Leo FL | 2,468 | $96K | 20.9% | 16.4% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,582 | Lodi OH | 2,822 | $52K | 9.3% | 4.6% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,583 | Tyrone Township PA | 1,814 | $92K | 13.2% | 0.9% | <1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,207 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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. Leo, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
St. Leo and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | St. Leo workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Leo | – | C+ | A | 16 min | $96,389 |
| Pasadena Hills | under 2% | A− | C | 35 min | $84,821 |
| San Antonio | under 2% | A− | B+ | 26 min | $94,342 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of St. Leo’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 St. Leo: questions
What is the median household income in St. Leo?
$96,389 (±$28,551) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in St. Leo?
20.9%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from St. Leo?
16 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 35% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in St. Leo work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tampa (15%, 29 mi), East Lake-Orient Park (3%, 24 mi), Orlando (3%, 58 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is St. Leo walkable?
St. Leo is more walkable than 94% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 9.2 out of 20, and 29% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around St. Leo without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from St. Leo, from the people who make the trip.
More of St. Leo
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.