Fort Gadsden Historic Memorial · Photo: Original uploader was JW1805 at en.wikipedia · Public domainSumatra has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Poverty touches 60.9% of residents (Florida 12.6%). Sumatra has 10 jobs for 81 working residents. Hardly any stay in Sumatra for work; outside it, Tallahassee is the main destination (16%, 53 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Sumatra
On a workday 81 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 10 people come in from elsewhere.
About 0 people are in Sumatra on a workday afternoon, 100% 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 people from Sumatra work
Where Sumatra clocks in
16% of workers
9% of workers
5% 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.
Most jobs in Sumatra are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sumatra, 2013 → 2023: 12 → 10. 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 Sumatra’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Sumatra commutes less than 49 miles
About 47% 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.
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 Sumatra: questions
What is the poverty rate in Sumatra?
60.9%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Sumatra work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tallahassee (16%, 53 mi), Bristol (9%, 28 mi), Blountstown (5%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sumatra, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sumatra
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.