Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0Bushnell draws 2,440 commuters a day, with 2.3 jobs for every working resident
Household incomes here are lower than in 84% of U.S. towns. Employers in Bushnell report 2,564 jobs, against 1,124 working residents. Jobs and income earn Bushnell C; 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 stands out about work in Bushnell
Income, poverty and work: Bushnell’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Bushnell is better than 26% of U.S. towns, #535 of 638 in Florida. Unemployment holds Bushnell’s grade up (3.6%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($52,717, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bushnell could be anywhere from D to B+.
Who works in Bushnell, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,000 residents head out to work and 124 work right here.
About 4,600 people are in Bushnell on a workday afternoon, 46% 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.
Where Bushnell’s workers come from
Where Bushnell clocks in
6% of workers
4% 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.
What Bushnell’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bushnell, 2013 → 2023: 2,811 → 2,564. 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 Bushnell’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Bushnell: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bushnell workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,256 commuters (the 5% 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.
The commute from Bushnell, by distance
About 23% 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.
Few in Bushnell walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bushnell is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns, #497 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 1,325 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). 12.3% of Bushnell households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bushnell’s commuters take a bus or train.
Bushnell is 3,453rd of 4,698 U.S. towns of 2,200 to 4,300 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 104 | Pelican Marsh FL | 2,617 | $143K | 2.7% | 1.5% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,451 | Mecosta Township MI | 2,891 | $61K | 19.1% | 2.8% | 3% | C |
| 3,452 | Sheldon NY | 2,336 | $71K | 11.8% | 7.3% | 7% | C |
| 3,453 | Bushnell FL | 3,157 | $53K | 13.4% | 3.6% | 11% | C |
| 3,454 | Ocilla GA | 2,837 | $41K | 26.2% | 0.0% | 20% | C |
| 3,455 | Lake Ozark MO | 2,247 | $74K | 18.6% | 4.3% | 10% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,698 | 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 Bushnell, 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 Bushnell: questions
What is the median household income in Bushnell?
$52,717 (±$17,761) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bushnell?
13.4%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bushnell?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bushnell work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wildwood (6%, 10 mi), Leesburg (4%, 13 mi), Jacksonville (2%, 117 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bushnell walkable?
Bushnell is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bushnell without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bushnell, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bushnell
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.