Photo: LittleT889 · CC BY-SA 4.0Work means Key West for more than half of Big Coppitt Key’s working residents
For 2% of workers, the job is at home (Florida 16%). The two grades for Big Coppitt Key are B for jobs and income and C for walkability. Measured by household income, Big Coppitt Key is ahead of 81% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Big Coppitt Key in brief
More than half of Big Coppitt Key works in Key West
762 working residents, 52%, have their main job in Key West, 7.8 miles away. That’s 13 times as many as work in Big Coppitt Key itself. The commute map ↓
Big Coppitt Key is a place people come home to
There are 297 jobs based in Big Coppitt Key, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Big Coppitt Key has about 2,000 people in it, 37% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Big Coppitt Key workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Most Big Coppitt Key residents work close to home
63% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
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.
Inside Big Coppitt Key’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Big Coppitt Key is better than 62% of U.S. towns, #238 of 638 in Florida. The poverty rate holds Big Coppitt Key’s grade up (4.7%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 11% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Big Coppitt Key could be anywhere from C to A.
The places Big Coppitt Key commutes to
Where Big Coppitt Key clocks in
52% of workers
1% 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.
Big Coppitt Key by day and by night
On a workday 1,392 residents head out to work, 60 work right here, and 237 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,000 people are in Big Coppitt Key on a workday afternoon, 37% fewer than live here.
0.20 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.
Time on the road from Big Coppitt Key: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Big Coppitt Key workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,834 commuters (the 2% 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.
Big Coppitt Key’s commute, mile by mile
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.
Making and building: 46% of jobs based in Big Coppitt Key
297 jobs are based in Big Coppitt Key.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Big Coppitt Key, 2013 → 2023: 139 → 297. 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 Big Coppitt Key’s own residents hold wherever they work.
For most of Big Coppitt Key, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Big Coppitt Key is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns, #539 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 1,873 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 63% 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 0.5 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 50% 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). 3.5% of Big Coppitt Key households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Big Coppitt Key’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,562 U.S. towns of 2,200 to 4,200, Big Coppitt Key comes 1,619th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 71 | Geneva FL | 3,441 | $133K | 0.6% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| 72 | Windermere FL | 3,344 | $178K | 1.3% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 103 | Pelican Marsh FL | 2,617 | $143K | 2.7% | 1.5% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,617 | Fowler Township OH | 2,295 | $76K | 13.0% | 1.7% | 3% | B |
| 1,618 | Danville VT | 2,372 | $71K | 5.3% | 0.8% | 18% | B |
| 1,619 | Big Coppitt Key FL | 3,109 | $105K | 4.7% | 3.8% | 4% | B |
| 1,620 | De Leon Springs FL | 2,687 | $57K | 8.0% | 0.0% | 2% | B |
| 1,621 | Colfax IA | 2,303 | $79K | 9.1% | 4.0% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,562 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Big Coppitt Key, 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 Big Coppitt Key: questions
What is the median household income in Big Coppitt Key?
$105,139 (±$19,219) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Big Coppitt Key?
4.7%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Big Coppitt Key?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Big Coppitt Key work?
4% work in town.
Is Big Coppitt Key walkable?
Big Coppitt Key is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 8.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Big Coppitt Key without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Big Coppitt Key, from the people who make the trip.
More of Big Coppitt Key
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.