Photo: DanTD · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Timber Pines are lower than in 75% of U.S. towns
Timber Pines grades C for jobs and income and C− for walkability. The poverty rate is 11.5%, next to 12.6% for Florida as a whole. Working from home is the commute for 27% of workers; Florida has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Timber Pines apart
The better-paid jobs are outside Timber Pines
54% of Timber Pines residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 24% of the jobs based in Timber Pines pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 99% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Timber Pines’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Timber Pines is Tampa, 36 miles away as the crow flies. 11% of working residents (131) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A lot of Timber Pines works from home
27% of Timber Pines workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
35% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Many jobs in Timber Pines pay little
27% of the jobs based in Timber Pines pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 30% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. 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.
Why Timber Pines gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Timber Pines is better than 32% of U.S. towns, #482 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Timber Pines’ grade up (ahead of 47% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($59,185, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (7.4%) is left out: Timber Pines’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, Timber Pines could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Timber Pines
724 jobs are based in Timber Pines.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Timber Pines, 2013 → 2023: 199 → 724. 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 Timber Pines’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Timber Pines works
About 35% 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.
A commute of about 26 minutes in Timber Pines
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Timber Pines workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 421 commuters (the 27% 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.
How a workday changes Timber Pines
On a workday 1,228 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 713 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,500 people are in Timber Pines on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
0.58 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.
11% of working residents work in Tampa
Where Timber Pines clocks in
11% of workers
5% 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.
Driving is how Timber Pines gets around
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 577 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 0.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 47% 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). 5.0% of Timber Pines households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Timber Pines’ commuters take a bus or train.
2,678th of 3,758: where Timber Pines ranks among U.S. towns of 3,500 to 6,800
| # | 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 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 53 | Bay Hill FL | 4,512 | $128K | 0.7% | 1.5% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 140 | Vineyards FL | 3,849 | $131K | 2.5% | 1.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 201 | Highland Beach FL | 4,328 | $145K | 2.3% | 3.5% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,676 | Willard OH | 6,130 | $54K | 18.5% | 2.6% | 26% | C |
| 2,677 | Fountain Hill PA | 4,835 | $64K | 18.6% | 7.4% | 5% | C |
| 2,678 | Timber Pines FL | 5,007 | $59K | 11.5% | 7.4% | 1% | C |
| 2,679 | Forsyth GA | 4,952 | $73K | 21.5% | 3.7% | 12% | C |
| 2,680 | Port Allen LA | 5,015 | $59K | 20.5% | 6.2% | 8% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,758 | 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 Timber Pines, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Around Timber Pines: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Spring Hill (5%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Timber Pines workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Timber Pines | – | C | C− | 26 min | $59,185 |
| Spring Hill | 5% | C+ | B+ | 30 min | $68,432 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Timber Pines’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 Timber Pines: questions
What is the median household income in Timber Pines?
$59,185 (±$4,249) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Timber Pines?
11.5%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Timber Pines?
26 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 27% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Timber Pines work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tampa (11%, 36 mi), Spring Hill (5%, 4 mi), Brooksville (4%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Timber Pines walkable?
Timber Pines is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Timber Pines without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Timber Pines, from the people who make the trip.
More of Timber Pines
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.