Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Edgewater are lower than in 72% of U.S. towns
10.0% of residents live below the poverty line, against 12.6% across Florida. Edgewater grades C+ for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. 10% of workers work from home, next to 16% for Florida as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Edgewater
Edgewater makes and builds things
58% of the jobs based in Edgewater are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Edgewater residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 17%. The jobs ↓
Edgewater has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Edgewater went from 3,064 in 2013 to 5,538 in 2023, +81%. The jobs ↓
Edgewater and New Smyrna Beach trade workers both ways
New Smyrna Beach is the top workplace for Edgewater residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Edgewater 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 the Jobs & income grade adds up in Edgewater
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Edgewater is better than 41% of U.S. towns, #412 of 638 in Florida. Unemployment holds Edgewater’s grade up (3.7%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($60,977, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Edgewater could be anywhere from C to B.
Making and building: 58% of jobs based in Edgewater
5,538 jobs are based in Edgewater.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Edgewater, 2013 → 2023: 3,064 → 5,538. 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 Edgewater’s own residents hold wherever they work.
17% of working residents work in New Smyrna Beach
Where Edgewater clocks in
17% of workers
10% of workers
7% 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.
Edgewater quiets down on a workday
On a workday 8,250 residents head out to work, 1,363 work right here, and 4,175 people come in from elsewhere.
About 21,000 people are in Edgewater on a workday afternoon, 16% fewer than live here.
0.58 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
About 26 minutes to work from Edgewater
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Edgewater workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 8,861 commuters (the 9% 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 far it is to work from Edgewater
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.
Driving is how Edgewater gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Edgewater is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns, #334 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.7% 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 9,786 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 84% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 28% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 59% 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). 1.9% of Edgewater households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Edgewater’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 17,000 to 33,000, Edgewater ranks 1,228th of 1,642 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Lake Forest IL | 19,731 | $235K | 3.5% | 1.8% | 12% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 48 | Pinecrest FL | 18,635 | $206K | 4.3% | 3.0% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 64 | Lake Butler FL | 17,125 | $183K | 3.7% | 2.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 90 | Palm Valley FL | 19,796 | $117K | 4.2% | 1.2% | 13% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,226 | Machesney Park IL | 22,805 | $75K | 13.7% | 7.1% | 7% | C+ |
| 1,227 | Granite City IL | 26,807 | $59K | 14.8% | 5.7% | 17% | C+ |
| 1,228 | Edgewater FL | 24,795 | $61K | 10.0% | 3.7% | 14% | C+ |
| 1,229 | Lower Township NJ | 21,533 | $85K | 7.7% | 7.0% | 23% | C+ |
| 1,230 | South El Monte CA | 18,963 | $73K | 20.9% | 7.4% | 8% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,642 | Nogales AZ | 19,495 | $43K | 28.0% | 15.7% | 37% | 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 Edgewater, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
17% of Edgewater works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Edgewater workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edgewater | – | C+ | B+ | 26 min | $60,977 |
| Glencoe | under 2% | C+ | C− | 30 min | $47,212 |
| New Smyrna Beach | 17% | B− | B | 29 min | $83,865 |
| Oak Hill | under 2% | C− | C | 27 min | $65,950 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to New Smyrna Beach. Darker towns draw more of Edgewater’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 Edgewater: questions
What is the median household income in Edgewater?
$60,977 (±$4,546) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Edgewater?
10.0%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Edgewater?
26 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Edgewater work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New Smyrna Beach (17%, 5 mi), Daytona Beach (10%, 19 mi), DeLand (7%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Edgewater walkable?
Edgewater is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 10.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Edgewater without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 28% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Edgewater, from the people who make the trip.
More of Edgewater
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.