Four Corners has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Jobs and income earn Four Corners B−; getting around on foot earns it B−. 15,632 jobs are based in Four Corners; 31,285 of its residents have a job. Only 6% work in Four Corners itself; outside it, Lake Buena Vista draws the most (24%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Four Corners stands out on work
Four Corners draws workers from far and wide
The 15,632 jobs in Four Corners are filled from a wide area. Four Corners’ own residents hold 12% and the ten next-biggest home towns 20%; the other 68% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Four Corners has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Four Corners went from 9,822 in 2013 to 15,632 in 2023, +59%. The jobs ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
34% of the jobs based in Four Corners are held by workers 29 or younger, against 28% of Four Corners’ own working residents. The jobs ↓
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.
Income, poverty and work: Four Corners’ grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Four Corners is better than 51% of U.S. towns, #330 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Four Corners’ grade up (ahead of 69% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (4.8%, U.S. 5.2%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Four Corners could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
Where people from Four Corners work
Where Four Corners clocks in
24% of workers
12% 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.
What Four Corners’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Four Corners, 2013 → 2023: 9,822 → 15,632. 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 Four Corners’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Four Corners quiets down on a workday
On a workday 29,440 residents head out to work, 1,845 work right here, and 13,787 people come in from elsewhere.
About 49,000 people are in Four Corners on a workday afternoon, 24% 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.
Commuting from Four Corners: about 31 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Four Corners workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 28,286 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.
Half of Four Corners commutes less than 15 miles
About 17% 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 Four Corners gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Four Corners is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns, #450 of 638 in Florida. Both inputs place Four Corners near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 34,829 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 3% 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 1.8 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 67% 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). 3.8% of Four Corners households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Four Corners’ commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 661 U.S. towns of 46,000 to 88,000, Four Corners comes 445th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
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| 1 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 2 | Lakeville MN | 79,270 | $139K | 2.9% | 2.0% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Fulshear TX | 64,630 | $187K | 1.6% | 2.8% | 2% | A+ |
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| 83 | Weston FL | 69,588 | $140K | 6.1% | 3.9% | 13% | A |
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| 114 | Horizon West FL | 67,416 | $127K | 7.3% | 2.9% | 3% | A |
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| 143 | Coral Gables FL | 49,578 | $134K | 9.4% | 3.6% | 18% | A |
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| 443 | East Hartford CT | 50,968 | $71K | 13.2% | 5.4% | 10% | B− |
| 444 | Bristol CT | 62,341 | $79K | 10.7% | 7.3% | 19% | B− |
| 445 | Four Corners FL | 65,048 | $73K | 10.5% | 4.8% | 6% | B− |
| 446 | Parma OH | 78,581 | $69K | 10.1% | 6.5% | 10% | B− |
| 447 | Bellflower CA | 74,719 | $79K | 13.3% | 7.6% | 5% | B− |
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| 661 | Pahrump NV | 47,347 | $62K | 13.7% | 8.5% | 28% | 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 Four Corners, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Work in the towns next to Four Corners
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Four Corners workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Four Corners | – | B− | B− | 31 min | $72,879 |
| Horizon West | under 2% | A | B | 27 min | $127,335 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Four Corners’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 Four Corners: questions
What is the median household income in Four Corners?
$72,879 (±$4,872) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Four Corners?
10.5%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Four Corners?
31 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Four Corners work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lake Buena Vista (24%, 8 mi), Orlando (12%, 22 mi), Clermont (2%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Four Corners walkable?
Four Corners is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Four Corners without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Four Corners, from the people who make the trip.
More of Four Corners
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.