Photo: William “Patrick” Ma… · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Tierra Verde top those of 95% of U.S. towns
2.2% of residents are in poverty; Florida has 12.6%. The two grades for Tierra Verde are A− for jobs and income and C for walkability. Working from home is the commute for 40% of workers; Florida has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Tierra Verde, in brief
A lot of Tierra Verde works from home
40% of Tierra Verde workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Time on the road ↓
Tierra Verde has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Tierra Verde went from 476 in 2013 to 930 in 2023, +95%. The jobs ↓
Tierra Verde and St. Petersburg trade workers both ways
St. Petersburg is the top workplace for Tierra Verde residents (22%) and also where the most people who work in Tierra Verde come from (32% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Tierra Verde
69% of Tierra Verde residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 44% of the jobs based in Tierra Verde pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 93% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Tierra Verde’s workforce skews older
40% of Tierra Verde’s working residents are 55 or older. That’s about two in five. 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 four measures behind Tierra Verde’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Tierra Verde is better than 83% of U.S. towns, #79 of 638 in Florida. The poverty rate holds Tierra Verde’s grade up; unemployment pulls it down (5.2%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Tierra Verde could be anywhere from B+ to A.
Getting to work from Tierra Verde takes about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tierra Verde workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,040 commuters (the 40% 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.
Tierra Verde is a services town
930 jobs are based in Tierra Verde.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tierra Verde, 2013 → 2023: 476 → 930. 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 Tierra Verde’s own residents hold wherever they work.
22% of working residents work in St. Petersburg
Where Tierra Verde clocks in
22% of workers
12% 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.
In and out of Tierra Verde on a workday
On a workday 1,242 residents head out to work, 89 work right here, and 841 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,700 people are in Tierra Verde on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
0.70 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 in the region Tierra Verde works
About 24% 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 of Tierra Verde commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Tierra Verde is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns, #559 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.6% across Florida.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,733 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). 0.5% of Tierra Verde households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Tierra Verde’s commuters take a bus or train.
Tierra Verde is 688th of 4,023 U.S. towns of 2,900 to 5,500 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 48 | Bay Hill FL | 4,512 | $128K | 0.7% | 1.5% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 78 | Geneva FL | 3,441 | $133K | 0.6% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 80 | Windermere FL | 3,344 | $178K | 1.3% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 686 | Paint Township OH | 4,602 | $97K | 8.1% | 0.4% | 13% | A− |
| 687 | Sugarloaf Township PA | 4,068 | $103K | 4.0% | 3.2% | 7% | A− |
| 688 | Tierra Verde FL | 4,108 | $151K | 2.2% | 5.2% | 7% | A− |
| 689 | Hubbardston MA | 4,460 | $124K | 4.3% | 2.8% | 5% | A− |
| 690 | Harmony Township OH | 3,623 | $96K | 4.9% | 2.8% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,023 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Tierra Verde, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Tierra Verde and its neighbors: 24% work next door
The biggest share goes to St. Petersburg (22%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Tierra Verde workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tierra Verde | – | A− | C | 34 min | $150,747 |
| St. Petersburg | 22% | B | A | 26 min | $75,192 |
| St. Pete Beach | 2% | A− | A | 26 min | $114,583 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Tierra Verde’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 Tierra Verde: questions
What is the median household income in Tierra Verde?
$150,747 (±$19,847) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tierra Verde?
2.2%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tierra Verde?
34 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 40% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tierra Verde work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Petersburg (22%, 8 mi), Tampa (12%, 26 mi), Largo (4%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tierra Verde walkable?
Tierra Verde is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tierra Verde 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 Tierra Verde, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tierra Verde
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.