Photo: Organizedchaos02 at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Bunnell draws 6,289 commuters a day, with 4.8 jobs for every working resident
Bunnell has 6,418 jobs for 1,328 working residents. For jobs and income Bunnell is better than 15% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns (A). Measured by household income, Bunnell is behind 81% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Bunnell, in brief
Bunnell fills up on a workday
Bunnell has 6,418 jobs, 4.8 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 9,400 people are in town, more than double the 4,300 who live here. Day and night ↓
Bunnell and Palm Coast trade workers both ways
Palm Coast is the top workplace for Bunnell residents (16%) and also where the most people who work in Bunnell come from (46% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Bunnell are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 28 across Florida. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical Florida worker. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
38% 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 ↓
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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Bunnell
Unemployment holds Bunnell’s grade up (4.8%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (19.8%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bunnell could be anywhere from D− to B.
Bunnell on a workday afternoon
On a workday 1,199 residents head out to work and 129 work right here.
About 9,400 people are in Bunnell on a workday afternoon, 118% 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.
The daily trip into Bunnell
Where Bunnell clocks in
16% of workers
8% 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.
Getting to work from Bunnell takes about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bunnell workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,136 commuters (the 11% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Bunnell
About 38% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Bunnell
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bunnell, 2013 → 2023: 4,821 → 6,418. 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 Bunnell’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Bunnell is easy on foot, hard by bus
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 7.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,279 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). 7.3% of Bunnell households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Bunnell’s commuters take a bus or train.
Bunnell is 3,503rd of 4,039 U.S. towns of 3,000 to 5,800 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 52 | Bay Hill FL | 4,512 | $128K | 0.7% | 1.5% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 86 | Geneva FL | 3,441 | $133K | 0.6% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 88 | Windermere FL | 3,344 | $178K | 1.3% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,501 | Romulus NY | 3,358 | $69K | 18.6% | 2.0% | 6% | C− |
| 3,502 | South Greeley WY | 4,631 | $57K | 24.9% | 7.2% | 3% | C− |
| 3,503 | Bunnell FL | 4,298 | $55K | 19.8% | 4.8% | 10% | D |
| 3,504 | Beaver Dam KY | 3,537 | $54K | 11.2% | 12.5% | 9% | D |
| 3,505 | Orwell Township OH | 3,126 | $46K | 23.2% | 4.8% | 17% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,039 | 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 Bunnell, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
The towns next door employ 16% of Bunnell
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bunnell workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bunnell | – | D | A | 20 min | $55,130 |
| Palm Coast | 16% | C+ | C+ | 27 min | $77,350 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Palm Coast. Darker towns draw more of Bunnell’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 Bunnell: questions
What is the median household income in Bunnell?
$55,130 (±$13,400) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bunnell?
19.8%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bunnell?
20 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bunnell work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Palm Coast (16%, 9 mi), Jacksonville (8%, 67 mi), Daytona Beach (7%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bunnell walkable?
Bunnell is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 14% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bunnell without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bunnell, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bunnell
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.