Palm Cottage Gardens · Photo: (Ebyabe) · CC BY 2.5Gotha has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 5.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 8.0 in Orlando. 336 jobs are based in Gotha for 1,043 working residents. Gotha grades A for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Gotha, in brief
Jobs in Gotha: what the 336 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gotha, 2013 → 2023: 253 → 336. 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 Gotha’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Gotha: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 1,038 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 331 people come in from elsewhere.
About 420 people are in Gotha on a workday afternoon, 63% 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.
27% of working residents work in Orlando
Where Gotha clocks in
27% of workers
7% of workers
5% 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.
Each way, about 29 minutes from Gotha
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gotha workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 489 commuters (the 9% 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.
Gotha’s commute, mile by mile
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Gotha
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Gotha is more walkable than 87% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Gotha 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 536 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 48% 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 5.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 85% 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). 9.0% of Gotha households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Gotha’s commuters take a bus or train.
Gotha and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Ocoee (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Gotha workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gotha | – | — | A | 29 min | — |
| Ocoee | 5% | B+ | A− | 31 min | $98,911 |
| Lake Butler | 2% | A+ | C+ | 28 min | $182,500 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Gotha’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 Gotha: questions
What is the poverty rate in Gotha?
4.4%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gotha?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gotha work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Orlando (27%, 12 mi), Lake Buena Vista (7%, 11 mi), Ocoee (5%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Gotha walkable?
Gotha is more walkable than 87% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 10.5 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Gotha without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Gotha, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gotha
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.