Photo: Boykinspanieling · CC BY-SA 4.0Treasure Island’s household incomes are higher than in 65% of U.S. towns
Treasure Island grades B+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Below the poverty line: 6.7% of residents, next to 12.6% for Florida as a whole. Working from home is the commute for 36% of workers (Florida 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Treasure Island: the figures worth knowing
Treasure Island trades workers with the towns around it
Treasure Island has about as many jobs (2,563) as working residents (2,446), but they are mostly different people: 2,227 residents leave for work each day while 2,344 people come in. Only 9% of the jobs in Treasure Island are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Home offices are common in Treasure Island
36% of Treasure Island workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Time on the road ↓
Treasure Island has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Treasure Island went from 1,520 in 2013 to 2,563 in 2023, +69%. The jobs ↓
Treasure Island and St. Petersburg trade workers both ways
St. Petersburg is the top workplace for Treasure Island residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Treasure Island come from (23% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Treasure Island
63% of Treasure Island residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 40% of the jobs based in Treasure Island pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 91% leave town for their job. 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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Treasure Island
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Treasure Island is better than 73% of U.S. towns, #151 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Treasure Island’s grade up (ahead of 77% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (4.3%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Treasure Island could be anywhere from B− to A.
Who works in Treasure Island, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 2,227 residents head out to work, 219 work right here, and 2,344 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 (1.05 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.
Each way, about 32 minutes from Treasure Island
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Treasure Island workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,909 commuters (the 36% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Treasure Island
2,563 jobs are based in Treasure Island.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Treasure Island, 2013 → 2023: 1,520 → 2,563. 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 Treasure Island’s own residents hold wherever they work.
17% of working residents work in St. Petersburg
Where Treasure Island clocks in
17% of workers
10% 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.
Where in the region Treasure Island works
About 20% 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.
In Treasure Island, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Treasure Island is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns, #451 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.2% of 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 2,986 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 54% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 17% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 3.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 79% 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). 5.2% of Treasure Island households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Treasure Island’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Treasure Island is 1,020th among 3,255 U.S. towns of 4,500 to 8,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Southwest Ranches FL | 7,773 | $161K | 3.8% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 45 | Bay Hill FL | 4,512 | $128K | 0.7% | 1.5% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 164 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,018 | Medical Lake WA | 4,964 | $80K | 8.1% | 1.2% | 13% | B+ |
| 1,019 | Crawfordville FL | 5,732 | $83K | 4.7% | 1.5% | 7% | B+ |
| 1,020 | Treasure Island FL | 6,397 | $87K | 6.7% | 4.3% | 9% | B+ |
| 1,021 | Woodstock CT | 8,474 | $112K | 4.4% | 4.0% | 13% | B+ |
| 1,022 | Columbia CT | 5,352 | $127K | 6.1% | 6.0% | 6% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,255 | 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 Treasure Island, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
The towns next door employ 22% of Treasure Island
The biggest share goes to St. Petersburg (17%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Treasure Island workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treasure Island | – | B+ | B− | 32 min | $87,107 |
| St. Pete Beach | 3% | A− | A | 26 min | $114,583 |
| St. Petersburg | 17% | B | A | 26 min | $75,192 |
| Madeira Beach | 2% | A− | A+ | 47 min | $75,781 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Treasure Island’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 Treasure Island: questions
What is the median household income in Treasure Island?
$87,107 (±$20,187) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Treasure Island?
6.7%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Treasure Island?
32 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 36% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Treasure Island work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Petersburg (17%, 8 mi), Tampa (10%, 23 mi), Largo (5%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Treasure Island walkable?
Treasure Island is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 10.3 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Treasure Island without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 17% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Treasure Island, from the people who make the trip.
More of Treasure Island
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.