With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Azalea Park works elsewhere
Working residents average 30 minutes each way (Florida 28, U.S. 26). Azalea Park has 3,182 jobs, against 6,071 working residents. The two grades for Azalea Park are C+ for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Azalea Park and work: the main findings
Inside Azalea Park’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Azalea Park is better than 41% of U.S. towns, #411 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Azalea Park’s grade up (ahead of 91% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (6.7%, U.S. 5.2%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Azalea Park could be anywhere from C to B.
31% of working residents work in Orlando
Where Azalea Park clocks in
31% of workers
2% of workers
2% 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.
How a workday changes Azalea Park
On a workday 5,960 residents head out to work, 111 work right here, and 3,071 people come in from elsewhere.
About 13,000 people are in Azalea Park on a workday afternoon, 18% 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 2023, primary jobs.
The kinds of work in Azalea Park
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Azalea Park, 2013 → 2023: 2,839 → 3,182. 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 Azalea Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Azalea Park spends getting to work: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Azalea Park workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 7,372 commuters (the 12% 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 Azalea Park goes to work
About 18% 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.
Azalea Park is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Azalea Park is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns, #395 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.8% 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 8,357 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 57% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 8% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 2.8 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 74% 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). 3.8% of Azalea Park households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Azalea Park’s commuters take a bus or train.
Azalea Park next to U.S. towns of 11,000 to 22,000: 1,577th of 2,220 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 2 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 83 | Pinecrest FL | 18,635 | $206K | 4.3% | 3.0% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 106 | Lake Butler FL | 17,125 | $183K | 3.7% | 2.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 140 | Palm Valley FL | 19,796 | $117K | 4.2% | 1.2% | 13% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,575 | Glassmanor MD | 16,981 | $66K | 14.7% | 7.9% | <1% | C+ |
| 1,576 | Dingman Township PA | 13,467 | $101K | 6.0% | 7.1% | 5% | C+ |
| 1,577 | Azalea Park FL | 16,180 | $63K | 14.0% | 6.7% | 2% | C+ |
| 1,578 | Lower Township NJ | 21,533 | $85K | 7.7% | 7.0% | 23% | C+ |
| 1,579 | Estelle LA | 16,341 | $79K | 17.0% | 7.8% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,220 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Azalea Park, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Work next door: 31% of Azalea Park’s workers
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Azalea Park workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Azalea Park | – | C+ | B | 30 min | $63,490 |
| Orlando | 31% | B− | A | 26 min | $72,336 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Orlando. Darker towns draw more of Azalea Park’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 Azalea Park: questions
What is the median household income in Azalea Park?
$63,490 (±$7,255) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Azalea Park?
14.0%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Azalea Park?
30 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Azalea Park work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Orlando (31%, 5 mi), Lake Buena Vista (2%, 18 mi), Winter Park (2%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Azalea Park walkable?
Azalea Park is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 10.9 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Azalea Park without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 8% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Azalea Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Azalea Park
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.