Clewiston Inn · Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0Clewiston has lower unemployment (1.3%) than 92% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 2% of workers (Florida 16%). Jobs and income earn Clewiston C; getting around on foot earns it A. Measured by household income, Clewiston is behind 78% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Clewiston: the gist
Clewiston trades workers with the towns around it
Clewiston has about as many jobs (3,378) as working residents (3,075), but they are mostly different people: 2,290 residents leave for work each day while 2,593 people come in. Only 23% of the jobs in Clewiston are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Clewiston’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Clewiston is LaBelle, 32 miles away as the crow flies. 10% of working residents (307) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Few Clewiston 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 ↓
Clewiston makes and builds things
42% of the jobs based in Clewiston are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Clewiston residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 31%. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
39% 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.
Where Clewiston’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Clewiston is better than 35% of U.S. towns, #458 of 638 in Florida. Unemployment holds Clewiston’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 20% of U.S. towns).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Clewiston could be anywhere from C− to B.
Who commutes out of Clewiston, and who commutes in
On a workday 2,290 residents head out to work, 785 work right here, and 2,593 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.10 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Half of Clewiston commutes less than 31 miles
About 39% 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.
Each way, about 22 minutes from Clewiston
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Clewiston workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,118 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.
Making and building: 42% of jobs based in Clewiston
3,378 jobs are based in Clewiston.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Clewiston, 2013 → 2023: 3,612 → 3,378. 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 Clewiston’s own residents hold wherever they work.
10% of working residents work in LaBelle
Where Clewiston clocks in
10% of workers
6% 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.
Clewiston is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Clewiston is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns, #146 of 638 in Florida. Both inputs place Clewiston near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,180 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). 14.8% of Clewiston households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Clewiston’s commuters take a bus or train.
Clewiston next to U.S. towns of 5,300 to 10,300: 2,231st of 3,111 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 45 | Southwest Ranches FL | 7,773 | $161K | 3.8% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 185 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 342 | Westlake FL | 9,042 | $132K | 3.2% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,229 | Montevideo MN | 5,335 | $69K | 19.6% | 2.3% | 39% | C |
| 2,230 | Waimea HI | 9,286 | $100K | 12.3% | 5.4% | 18% | C |
| 2,231 | Clewiston FL | 7,594 | $57K | 16.3% | 1.3% | 26% | C |
| 2,232 | Montague MA | 8,377 | $71K | 11.5% | 5.1% | 14% | C |
| 2,233 | Harvard IL | 9,504 | $68K | 11.8% | 7.6% | 14% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,111 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Clewiston, 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 Clewiston: questions
What is the median household income in Clewiston?
$57,222 (±$14,352) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Clewiston?
16.3%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Clewiston?
22 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Clewiston work?
26% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are LaBelle (10%, 32 mi), Belle Glade (6%, 17 mi), South Bay (1%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Clewiston walkable?
Clewiston is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.7 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Clewiston without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 15% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Clewiston, from the people who make the trip.
More of Clewiston
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.