Photo: LittleT889 · CC BY 4.0Conway has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Commuters spend 27 minutes getting to work on average, where Florida has 28 and the U.S. 26. Conway has 1,447 jobs, and 6,924 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Conway is better than 78% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (B).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Conway apart on work
Conway and Orlando trade workers both ways
Orlando is the top workplace for Conway residents (36%) and also where the most people who work in Conway come from (14% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Conway is a place people come home to
There are 1,447 jobs based in Conway, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Conway has about 7,500 people in it, 42% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Conway has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Conway went from 1,032 in 2013 to 1,447 in 2023, +40%. The jobs ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How Conway earns its Jobs & income grade
Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 90% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (8.9%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Conway could be anywhere from B− to A+.
36% of working residents work in Orlando
Where Conway clocks in
36% of workers
3% 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.
Who leaves Conway for work, and who comes in
On a workday 6,816 residents head out to work, 108 work right here, and 1,339 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,500 people are in Conway on a workday afternoon, 42% 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.
What Conway’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Conway, 2013 → 2023: 1,032 → 1,447. 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 Conway’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Conway takes about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Conway workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 5,510 commuters (the 18% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Conway
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.
Driving is how Conway gets around
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.1% 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 6,719 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 56% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 7% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 4.4 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 82% 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). 1.5% of Conway households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Conway’s commuters take a bus or train.
Conway places 789th of 2,354 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 9,000 to 17,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 185 | Lake Mary FL | 16,789 | $109K | 3.5% | 2.6% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 227 | Key Biscayne FL | 14,815 | $182K | 5.5% | 2.8% | 12% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 288 | Asbury Lake FL | 14,458 | $101K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 787 | Norton OH | 11,493 | $90K | 6.1% | 4.2% | 8% | A− |
| 788 | Sumner WA | 10,871 | $98K | 4.9% | 5.3% | 10% | A− |
| 789 | Conway FL | 12,928 | $87K | 8.9% | 3.3% | 2% | A− |
| 790 | Moss Bluff LA | 12,482 | $92K | 8.9% | 1.1% | 5% | A− |
| 791 | Pepperell MA | 11,762 | $124K | 8.0% | 3.7% | 7% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,354 | 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 Conway, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Conway and its neighbors: 36% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Conway workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conway | – | A− | B | 27 min | $87,405 |
| Belle Isle | under 2% | B+ | B− | 28 min | $104,559 |
| Orlando | 36% | 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 Conway’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 Conway: questions
What is the median household income in Conway?
$87,405 (±$18,467) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Conway?
8.9%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Conway?
27 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Conway work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Orlando (36%, 2 mi), Lake Buena Vista (3%, 14 mi), Winter Park (2%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Conway walkable?
Conway is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 10.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Conway without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 7% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Conway, from the people who make the trip.
More of Conway
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.