Photo: Connor J. Williams · CC BY 3.0Households in Eustis earn less than those in 65% of U.S. towns
Only 8% stay in Eustis for work; outside it, Tavares is the main destination (12%, 8 miles). 9.6% of residents live below the poverty line, against 12.6% across Florida. The two grades for Eustis are B− for jobs and income and B+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Eustis
Eustis’ Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Eustis is better than 51% of U.S. towns, #335 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Eustis’ grade up (ahead of 59% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($65,373, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Eustis could be anywhere from C to B+.
Where Eustis’ working residents head each day
Where Eustis clocks in
12% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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 Eustis for work, and who comes in
On a workday 9,440 residents head out to work, 791 work right here, and 5,794 people come in from elsewhere.
About 22,000 people are in Eustis on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.64 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.
What the 6,585 jobs in Eustis are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Eustis, 2013 → 2023: 7,084 → 6,585. 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 Eustis’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 26 minutes from Eustis
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Eustis workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 10,030 commuters (the 13% 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 Eustis to work
About 21% 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.
Few in Eustis walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Eustis is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns, #342 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.4% 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 11,466 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). 7.0% of Eustis households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Eustis’ commuters take a bus or train.
Eustis is 1,020th of 1,516 U.S. towns of 18,000 to 34,000 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Pinecrest FL | 18,635 | $206K | 4.3% | 3.0% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 84 | Palm Valley FL | 19,796 | $117K | 4.2% | 1.2% | 13% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 102 | Jacksonville Beach FL | 23,615 | $121K | 4.8% | 1.8% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,018 | Glassboro NJ | 24,483 | $87K | 13.4% | 7.4% | 8% | B− |
| 1,019 | Parma Heights OH | 20,327 | $61K | 13.9% | 4.1% | 3% | B− |
| 1,020 | Eustis FL | 25,483 | $65K | 9.6% | 3.8% | 8% | B− |
| 1,021 | Sand Springs OK | 20,397 | $76K | 10.5% | 5.9% | 11% | B− |
| 1,022 | Atascadero CA | 29,464 | $91K | 11.4% | 4.6% | 21% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,516 | 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 Eustis, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
18% of Eustis works in a town next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Eustis workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eustis | – | B− | B+ | 26 min | $65,373 |
| Tavares | 12% | B | B− | 31 min | $58,886 |
| Mount Dora | 6% | C+ | B+ | 30 min | $74,537 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Tavares. Darker towns draw more of Eustis’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 Eustis: questions
What is the median household income in Eustis?
$65,373 (±$7,599) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Eustis?
9.6%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Eustis?
26 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Eustis work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tavares (12%, 8 mi), Orlando (7%, 34 mi), Mount Dora (6%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Eustis walkable?
Eustis is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 8.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Eustis without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Eustis, from the people who make the trip.
More of Eustis
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.