Photo: The Bushranger · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Wewahitchka earn less than those in 94% of U.S. towns
20.1% of residents live below the poverty line (Florida 12.6%). For jobs and income Wewahitchka is better than 2% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns (B+). 8% of workers have no commute at all, next to 16% for Florida as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Wewahitchka apart
Wewahitchka’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Wewahitchka is Port St. Joe, 23 miles away as the crow flies. 18% of working residents (146) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
30% 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 ↓
Commutes from Wewahitchka are quick
The average trip to work takes 22 minutes, against 28 across Florida. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Florida worker. Time on the road ↓
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; with 791 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Wewahitchka earns its Jobs & income grade
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Wewahitchka’s grade.
Unemployment (2.0%) is left out: Wewahitchka’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, Wewahitchka could be anywhere from D− to D.
The distance from Wewahitchka to work
About 30% 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.
About 22 minutes each way, quicker than most of Florida
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wewahitchka workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 811 commuters (the 8% 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.
Who leaves Wewahitchka for work, and who comes in
On a workday 690 residents head out to work, 101 work right here, and 375 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Wewahitchka on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.60 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.
18% of working residents work in Port St. Joe
Where Wewahitchka clocks in
18% of workers
7% 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.
The kinds of work in Wewahitchka
476 jobs are based in Wewahitchka.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wewahitchka, 2013 → 2023: 293 → 476. 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 Wewahitchka’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Wewahitchka, the car does most of the work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 14.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 5.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 880 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.7% of Wewahitchka households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Wewahitchka’s commuters take a bus or train.
Wewahitchka and other U.S. towns of 1,500 to 3,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 97 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 99 | Pelican Marsh FL | 2,617 | $143K | 2.7% | 1.5% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 128 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,441 | Cedaredge CO | 2,448 | $48K | 20.6% | 9.3% | 12% | D− |
| 5,442 | Bonifay FL | 2,839 | $41K | 22.1% | 4.4% | 24% | D− |
| 5,443 | Wewahitchka FL | 2,213 | $44K | 20.1% | 2.0% | 13% | D− |
| 5,444 | Soperton GA | 2,994 | $33K | 24.9% | 8.9% | 14% | D− |
| 5,445 | Stockton MO | 1,825 | $38K | 20.0% | 8.9% | 18% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,641 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Wewahitchka, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
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 Wewahitchka: questions
What is the median household income in Wewahitchka?
$43,674 (±$13,028) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wewahitchka?
20.1%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wewahitchka?
22 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wewahitchka work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Port St. Joe (18%, 22 mi), Panama City (9%, 22 mi), Tallahassee (7%, 60 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wewahitchka walkable?
Wewahitchka is more walkable than 67% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 14% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wewahitchka without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wewahitchka, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wewahitchka
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.