Most of Cypress Gardens commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 7% of workers; Florida has 16%. There are 495 jobs in Cypress Gardens, against 4,418 working residents. The two grades for Cypress Gardens are B+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Cypress Gardens apart
Cypress Gardens is a place people come home to
There are 495 jobs based in Cypress Gardens, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Cypress Gardens has about 6,200 people in it, 39% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Cypress Gardens
60% of Cypress Gardens residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 36% of the jobs based in Cypress Gardens pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 99% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Cypress Gardens and Winter Haven trade workers both ways
Winter Haven is the top workplace for Cypress Gardens residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Cypress Gardens come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Cypress Gardens than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Cypress Gardens fell from 677 in 2013 to 495 in 2023, −27%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. 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.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Cypress Gardens
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Cypress Gardens is better than 65% of U.S. towns, #210 of 638 in Florida. Unemployment holds Cypress Gardens’ grade up (1.7%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (11.1%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Cypress Gardens could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Who works in Cypress Gardens, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 4,385 residents head out to work, 33 work right here, and 462 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,200 people are in Cypress Gardens on a workday afternoon, 39% 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.
Jobs in Cypress Gardens: what the 495 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cypress Gardens, 2013 → 2023: 677 → 495. 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 Cypress Gardens’s own residents hold wherever they work.
17% of working residents work in Winter Haven
Where Cypress Gardens clocks in
17% of workers
11% of workers
9% 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 Cypress Gardens takes about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cypress Gardens workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,508 commuters (the 7% 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 distance from Cypress Gardens to work
About 22% 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.
For most of Cypress Gardens, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cypress Gardens is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns, #582 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 4,859 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 2.8% of Cypress Gardens households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cypress Gardens’ commuters take a bus or train.
How Cypress Gardens ranks: 1,298th of 2,878 U.S. towns of 7,000 to 14,000
| # | 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 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
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| 29 | Southwest Ranches FL | 7,773 | $161K | 3.8% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 174 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 343 | Westlake FL | 9,042 | $132K | 3.2% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,296 | Fairview Shores FL | 11,844 | $62K | 11.8% | 2.4% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,297 | Trinity NC | 7,274 | $83K | 11.6% | 3.2% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,298 | Cypress Gardens FL | 10,077 | $75K | 11.1% | 1.7% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,299 | Na-Au-Say Township IL | 11,233 | $128K | 8.8% | 8.7% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,300 | Hamilton Township IN | 7,302 | $74K | 9.2% | 1.8% | 7% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,878 | 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 Cypress Gardens, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
17% of Cypress Gardens works in a town next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Cypress Gardens workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cypress Gardens | – | B+ | C− | 30 min | $75,483 |
| Winter Haven | 17% | C | B | 28 min | $59,648 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Winter Haven. Darker towns draw more of Cypress Gardens’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 Cypress Gardens: questions
What is the median household income in Cypress Gardens?
$75,483 (±$14,489) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cypress Gardens?
11.1%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cypress Gardens?
30 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cypress Gardens work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Winter Haven (17%, 4 mi), Lakeland (11%, 16 mi), Bartow (9%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cypress Gardens walkable?
Cypress Gardens is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cypress Gardens without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cypress Gardens, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cypress Gardens
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.