Atlantis draws 4,201 commuters a day, with 4.9 jobs for every working resident
Measured by household income, Atlantis is ahead of 87% of U.S. towns. Atlantis has 4,260 jobs for 875 working residents. Jobs and income earn Atlantis A+; getting around on foot earns it C.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Atlantis
Atlantis fills up on a workday
Atlantis has 4,260 jobs, 4.9 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 5,500 people are in town, more than double the 2,100 who live here. Day and night ↓
Nearly all the work in Atlantis is services
98% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 1% are in factories, building or farms. The jobs ↓
Atlantis has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Atlantis went from 3,111 in 2013 to 4,260 in 2023, +37%. 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; with 875 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Inside Atlantis’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Atlantis is better than 98% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Atlantis’ grade. It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (3.9%) is left out: Atlantis’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, Atlantis could be anywhere from A to A+.
Who works in Atlantis, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 816 residents head out to work and 59 work right here.
About 5,500 people are in Atlantis on a workday afternoon, 158% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
In Atlantis, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Atlantis, 2013 → 2023: 3,111 → 4,260. 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 Atlantis’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip into Atlantis
Where Atlantis clocks in
7% of workers
6% 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.
About 27 minutes each way for Atlantis’ commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Atlantis workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 734 commuters (the 19% 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 far Atlantis goes to work
About 16% 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.
For most of Atlantis, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Atlantis is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.1% 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 902 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 1% 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). 3.0% of Atlantis households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Atlantis’ commuters take a bus or train.
93rd of 5,404: where Atlantis ranks among U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 91 | Helena Township MN | 1,812 | $156K | 1.0% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 92 | Lowhill Township PA | 2,331 | $144K | 2.7% | 1.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 93 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| 94 | Caledonia MI | 1,778 | $106K | 3.7% | 0.5% | 2% | A+ |
| 95 | Pelican Marsh FL | 2,617 | $143K | 2.7% | 1.5% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 122 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 129 | Lake Mary Jane FL | 1,792 | $146K | 0.0% | 3.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 188 | Belleair Beach FL | 1,581 | $164K | 5.9% | 3.6% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | 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 Atlantis, 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 Atlantis: questions
What is the median household income in Atlantis?
$116,715 (±$15,424) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Atlantis?
3.6%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Atlantis?
27 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Atlantis work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are West Palm Beach (12%, 10 mi), Boynton Beach (7%, 5 mi), Boca Raton (6%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Atlantis walkable?
Atlantis is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Atlantis without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Atlantis, from the people who make the trip.
More of Atlantis
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.