Photo: Fisher Island's Club · CC BY 4.0Fisher Island’s household incomes are among the highest in the country
3.8% of residents live below the poverty line, where Florida as a whole has 12.6%. Measured by household income, Fisher Island is among the highest-earning towns in the country. Fisher Island grades A+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Fisher Island
On income, poverty and job access, Fisher Island is among the top U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Fisher Island’s grade. It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Fisher Island’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
The Census reports Fisher Island’s median household income as $250,000+, the top of its scale; the grade ranks it as tied with the 111 other graded places at that ceiling.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Fisher Island could be anywhere from A to A+.
The daily commute in and out of Fisher Island
On a workday 181 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 90 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
0.50 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 2024, primary jobs.
27% of working residents work in Miami
Where Fisher Island clocks in
27% of workers
17% 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.
In Fisher Island, services account for most jobs
90 jobs are based in Fisher Island.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fisher Island, 2014 → 2024: 78 → 90. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Fisher Island’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Fisher Island
of Fisher Island workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 38 commuters (the 87% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Fisher Island
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
For most of Fisher Island, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fisher Island is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns. 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 292 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 11.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 94% 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). 0.0% of Fisher Island households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Fisher Island’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Fisher Island is 29th of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Bannockburn IL | 1,308 | $214K | 5.1% | 1.8% | 6% | A+ |
| 28 | Maple Bluff WI | 1,305 | $199K | 3.0% | 1.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 29 | Fisher Island FL | 1,026 | $250K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| 30 | Lake Quivira KS | 1,005 | $178K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 31 | Pittsford NY | 1,323 | $119K | 1.9% | 3.0% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 59 | Golden Beach FL | 1,029 | $236K | 7.1% | 2.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 194 | Palm Beach Shores FL | 1,350 | $87K | 5.3% | 9.1% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 238 | Redington Beach FL | 1,355 | $105K | 8.3% | 2.6% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Fisher Island, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
44% of Fisher Island works in a town next door
The biggest share goes to Miami (27%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Fisher Island workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fisher Island | – | A+ | B− | — | $250,000+ |
| Miami Beach | 17% | B | A+ | 27 min | $72,856 |
| Miami | 27% | C+ | A+ | 27 min | $62,462 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Fisher Island’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 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- A ceiling on income. The Census stops at $250,000+, so the true median may be higher.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Fisher Island: questions
What is the median household income in Fisher Island?
$250,000+ (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fisher Island?
3.8%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Fisher Island work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Miami (27%, 4 mi), Miami Beach (17%, 3 mi), Plantation (4%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Fisher Island walkable?
Fisher Island is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 12.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fisher Island without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fisher Island, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fisher Island
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.