Fell, Marian, Library · Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Fellsmere commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Fellsmere grades D for jobs and income and A− for walkability. 899 jobs are based in Fellsmere, against 1,951 working residents. Household incomes here are lower than in 80% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Fellsmere apart on work
Fellsmere makes and builds things
56% of the jobs based in Fellsmere are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Fellsmere residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 29%. The jobs ↓
Few Fellsmere workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
34% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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.
The figures behind Fellsmere’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Fellsmere is better than 14% of U.S. towns, #596 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Fellsmere’s grade up (ahead of 44% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (7.8%, U.S. 5.2%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Fellsmere could be anywhere from D to B.
Factories, building and farms: 56% of the jobs in Fellsmere
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fellsmere, 2013 → 2023: 770 → 899. 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 Fellsmere’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 32 minutes in Fellsmere
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fellsmere workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,990 commuters (the 3% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Fellsmere
About 34% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Fellsmere
On a workday 1,720 residents head out to work, 231 work right here, and 668 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,000 people are in Fellsmere on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
9% of working residents work in Vero Beach
Where Fellsmere clocks in
9% of workers
4% of workers
4% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Fellsmere
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fellsmere is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns, #212 of 638 in Florida. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 7.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,045 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). 5.5% of Fellsmere households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Fellsmere’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Fellsmere ranks: 3,320th of 3,758 U.S. towns of 3,500 to 6,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 53 | Bay Hill FL | 4,512 | $128K | 0.7% | 1.5% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 140 | Vineyards FL | 3,849 | $131K | 2.5% | 1.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 201 | Highland Beach FL | 4,328 | $145K | 2.3% | 3.5% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,318 | San Carlos TX | 3,678 | $49K | 23.1% | 21.0% | 1% | D |
| 3,319 | Desert Edge CA | 3,778 | $37K | 17.8% | 6.0% | 2% | D |
| 3,320 | Fellsmere FL | 5,025 | $56K | 18.8% | 7.8% | 12% | D |
| 3,321 | Wahneta FL | 3,876 | $47K | 24.2% | 7.3% | 1% | D |
| 3,322 | Fort Pierce South FL | 5,028 | $51K | 29.8% | 7.9% | 1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,758 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Fellsmere, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Next door to Fellsmere
The biggest share goes to West Vero Corridor (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Fellsmere workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fellsmere | – | D | A− | 32 min | $55,893 |
| West Vero Corridor | 2% | C | C+ | 28 min | $61,927 |
| Vero Lake Estates | under 2% | A− | C− | 25 min | $83,199 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Fellsmere’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 Fellsmere: questions
What is the median household income in Fellsmere?
$55,893 (±$15,377) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fellsmere?
18.8%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fellsmere?
32 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fellsmere work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Vero Beach (9%, 14 mi), Palm Bay (4%, 16 mi), Sebastian (4%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fellsmere walkable?
Fellsmere is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.9 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fellsmere without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fellsmere, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fellsmere
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.