With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Greenacres works elsewhere
The two grades for Greenacres are C+ for jobs and income and A− for walkability. Greenacres has 7,079 jobs, against 17,219 working residents. 6% of workers work from home; Florida has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Greenacres, in brief
Greenacres draws workers from far and wide
The 7,079 jobs in Greenacres are filled from a wide area. Greenacres’ own residents hold 9% and the ten next-biggest home towns 26%; the other 65% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Short distances, slow trips
Half of Greenacres’ working residents have a job less than 9 miles away, yet the average commute still takes 30 minutes, longer than the Florida average of 28. Time on the road ↓
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.
Jobs & income in Greenacres: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Greenacres is better than 42% of U.S. towns, #405 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Greenacres’ grade up (ahead of 86% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (6.6%, U.S. 5.2%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Greenacres could be anywhere from C to B.
13% of working residents work in West Palm Beach
Where Greenacres clocks in
7% 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.
A commute of about 30 minutes in Greenacres
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Greenacres workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 19,836 commuters (the 6% 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.
How a workday changes Greenacres
On a workday 16,559 residents head out to work, 660 work right here, and 6,419 people come in from elsewhere.
About 35,000 people are in Greenacres on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
The kinds of work in Greenacres
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Greenacres, 2013 → 2023: 5,738 → 7,079. 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 Greenacres’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Greenacres
About 16% 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.
Greenacres is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Greenacres is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns, #241 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.3% of 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 21,043 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 87% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 28% 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). 4.5% of Greenacres households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Greenacres’ commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Greenacres is 759th among 1,000 U.S. towns of 31,000 to 60,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 2 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Parkland FL | 39,186 | $199K | 4.3% | 3.1% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 104 | Fruit Cove FL | 35,877 | $142K | 2.7% | 2.8% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 124 | Cooper City FL | 35,030 | $132K | 5.0% | 4.0% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 757 | Olympia WA | 56,724 | $81K | 14.0% | 7.3% | 34% | C+ |
| 758 | Seaside CA | 31,636 | $85K | 16.0% | 5.9% | 9% | C+ |
| 759 | Greenacres FL | 44,736 | $70K | 14.8% | 6.6% | 4% | C+ |
| 760 | Carson City NV | 58,571 | $72K | 10.3% | 5.5% | 46% | C+ |
| 761 | South Miami Heights FL | 38,766 | $65K | 15.5% | 5.8% | 4% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,000 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | 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 Greenacres, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
The towns around Greenacres
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Greenacres workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenacres | – | C+ | A− | 30 min | $70,491 |
| Kenwood Estates | under 3% | C+ | A+ | 27 min | $66,477 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Greenacres’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 Greenacres: questions
What is the median household income in Greenacres?
$70,491 (±$5,481) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Greenacres?
14.8%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Greenacres?
30 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Greenacres work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are West Palm Beach (13%, 8 mi), Palm Springs (7%, 2 mi), Boynton Beach (4%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Greenacres walkable?
Greenacres is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 12.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Greenacres without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 28% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Greenacres, from the people who make the trip.
More of Greenacres
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.