Photo: The Bushranger · CC BY-SA 4.0Waukeenah has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Hardly any stay in Waukeenah for work; outside it, Tallahassee is the main destination (44%, 17 miles). There are 12 jobs in Waukeenah, against 106 working residents. For 0% of workers, the job is at home, where Florida as a whole has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How many people are in Waukeenah by day
On a workday 106 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 12 people come in from elsewhere.
About 21 people are in Waukeenah on a workday afternoon, 82% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where Waukeenah goes to work
Where Waukeenah clocks in
44% of workers
5% 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.
Jobs in Waukeenah: what the 12 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Waukeenah, 2014 → 2024: 14 → 12. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Waukeenah’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Waukeenah
of Waukeenah workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 44 commuters (the 0% 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.
The commute from Waukeenah, by distance
About 27% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Waukeenah: questions
What is the poverty rate in Waukeenah?
14.8%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Waukeenah work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tallahassee (44%, 17 mi), Monticello (5%, 12 mi), Pensacola (3%, 192 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Waukeenah without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 27% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Waukeenah, from the people who make the trip.
More of Waukeenah
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.