Photo: Connor J Williams · CC BY 2.0Households in Geneva earn more than those in 92% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 0.6% of residents (Florida 12.6%). The two grades for Geneva are A+ for jobs and income and D for walkability. For 28% of workers, the job is at home, against 16% across Florida.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Geneva, in brief
Geneva workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 50 minutes each way, against 28 across Florida. Over a year that’s about 383 hours of commuting, 169 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
A lot of Geneva works from home
29% of Geneva workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Time on the road ↓
Geneva makes and builds things
41% of the jobs based in Geneva are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Geneva residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 18%. The jobs ↓
Geneva’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Geneva is Orlando, 22 miles away as the crow flies. 11% of working residents (150) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. 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.
Why Geneva gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Geneva is better than 98% of U.S. towns, #3 of 638 in Florida. The poverty rate is its strongest input; job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 68% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Geneva could be anywhere from A to A+.
About 50 minutes each way, longer than most of Florida
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 16 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Geneva workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,252 commuters (the 28% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 41% of the jobs in Geneva
548 jobs are based in Geneva.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Geneva, 2013 → 2023: 269 → 548. 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 Geneva’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Geneva works
About 20% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Geneva
On a workday 1,287 residents head out to work, 51 work right here, and 497 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,700 people are in Geneva on a workday afternoon, 23% fewer than live here.
0.41 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.
11% of working residents work in Orlando
Where Geneva clocks in
11% 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 Geneva, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Geneva is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns, #623 of 638 in Florida. 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 1,750 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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 Geneva households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Geneva’s commuters take a bus or train.
Geneva places 81st of 4,402 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 2,400 to 4,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 44 | Bay Hill FL | 4,512 | $128K | 0.7% | 1.5% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 79 | Delaware Township NJ | 4,597 | $194K | 0.9% | 1.9% | 7% | A+ |
| 80 | Genesee CO | 3,778 | $187K | 2.4% | 2.2% | 5% | A+ |
| 81 | Geneva FL | 3,441 | $133K | 0.6% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| 82 | Kings Park VA | 4,315 | $166K | 1.9% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 83 | Windermere FL | 3,344 | $178K | 1.3% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 116 | Pelican Marsh FL | 2,617 | $143K | 2.7% | 1.5% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 136 | Vineyards FL | 3,849 | $131K | 2.5% | 1.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,402 | 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 Geneva, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
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 Geneva: questions
What is the median household income in Geneva?
$132,981 (±$53,328) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Geneva?
0.6%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Geneva?
50 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 28% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Geneva work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Orlando (11%, 22 mi), Sanford (9%, 10 mi), University (6%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Geneva walkable?
Geneva is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Geneva 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 Geneva, from the people who make the trip.
More of Geneva
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.