Photo: Visitor7 · CC BY-SA 3.0More people are out of work in Doctor Phillips (10.3%) than in 95% of U.S. towns
Doctor Phillips grades B− for jobs and income and B for walkability. Household incomes here are higher than in 80% of U.S. towns. Commuters spend 24 minutes getting to work on average, where Florida has 28 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Doctor Phillips in brief
Doctor Phillips draws workers from far and wide
The 8,293 jobs in Doctor Phillips are filled from a wide area. The ten biggest home towns of its workers supply 23%; the other 74% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Doctor Phillips has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Doctor Phillips went from 4,589 in 2013 to 8,293 in 2023, +81%. The jobs ↓
Doctor Phillips and Orlando trade workers both ways
Orlando is the top workplace for Doctor Phillips residents (27%) and also where the most people who work in Doctor Phillips come from (10% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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 Doctor Phillips earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Doctor Phillips is better than 54% of U.S. towns, #307 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Doctor Phillips’ grade up (ahead of 86% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down. It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Doctor Phillips could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
27% of working residents work in Orlando
Where Doctor Phillips clocks in
27% of workers
8% 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.
Jobs in Doctor Phillips: what the 8,293 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Doctor Phillips, 2013 → 2023: 4,589 → 8,293. 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 Doctor Phillips’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In and out of Doctor Phillips on a workday
On a workday 5,558 residents head out to work, 226 work right here, and 8,067 people come in from elsewhere.
About 15,000 people are in Doctor Phillips on a workday afternoon, 19% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.43 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.
A commute of about 24 minutes in Doctor Phillips
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Doctor Phillips workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,721 commuters (the 19% 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.
How many miles Doctor Phillips commutes
About 19% 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 Doctor Phillips gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Doctor Phillips is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns, #404 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.9% 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 5,810 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 2.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 73% 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). 3.1% of Doctor Phillips households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Doctor Phillips’ commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 2,526 U.S. towns of 9,000 to 18,000, Doctor Phillips comes 1,453rd on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 131 | Lake Butler FL | 17,125 | $183K | 3.7% | 2.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 195 | Lake Mary FL | 16,789 | $109K | 3.5% | 2.6% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 239 | Key Biscayne FL | 14,815 | $182K | 5.5% | 2.8% | 12% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,451 | Bastrop TX | 13,383 | $82K | 7.2% | 7.2% | 15% | B− |
| 1,452 | Los Osos CA | 14,166 | $109K | 8.1% | 5.1% | 11% | B− |
| 1,453 | Doctor Phillips FL | 12,984 | $104K | 12.0% | 10.3% | 4% | B− |
| 1,454 | Villas FL | 13,644 | $58K | 10.0% | 3.5% | 8% | B− |
| 1,455 | Rotonda FL | 10,352 | $75K | 5.7% | 2.9% | 6% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,526 | 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 Doctor Phillips, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
The towns next door employ 27% of Doctor Phillips
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Doctor Phillips workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doctor Phillips | – | B− | B | 24 min | $103,950 |
| Orlando | 27% | B− | A | 26 min | $72,336 |
| Bay Hill | under 1% | A+ | C | 24 min | $127,763 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Orlando. Darker towns draw more of Doctor Phillips’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 Doctor Phillips: questions
What is the median household income in Doctor Phillips?
$103,950 (±$11,521) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Doctor Phillips?
12.0%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Doctor Phillips?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Doctor Phillips work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Orlando (27%, 10 mi), Lake Buena Vista (8%, 5 mi), Tampa (2%, 68 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Doctor Phillips walkable?
Doctor Phillips is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 10.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Doctor Phillips 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 Doctor Phillips, from the people who make the trip.
More of Doctor Phillips
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.