Sanderling Beach Club · Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0Gulf Gate’s household incomes are lower than in 72% of U.S. towns
13.4% of residents are in poverty (Florida 12.6%). The two grades for Gulf Gate are C+ for jobs and income and A for walkability. For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 9.7 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 31.0 in Miami.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Gulf Gate, in a few figures
Gulf Gate trades workers with the towns around it
Gulf Gate has about as many jobs (2,806) as working residents (2,790), but they are mostly different people: 2,645 residents leave for work each day while 2,661 people come in. Only 5% of the jobs in Gulf Gate are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Gulf Gate are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 28 across Florida. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical Florida worker. 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.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Gulf Gate
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Gulf Gate is better than 41% of U.S. towns, #409 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Gulf Gate’s grade up (ahead of 76% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($61,379, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Gulf Gate could be anywhere from C− to A−.
How a workday changes Gulf Gate
On a workday 2,645 residents head out to work, 145 work right here, and 2,661 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.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.01 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Gulf Gate’s commute takes about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gulf Gate workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,356 commuters (the 12% 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.
17% of working residents work in Sarasota
Where Gulf Gate clocks in
17% 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.
Jobs in Gulf Gate: what the 2,806 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gulf Gate, 2013 → 2023: 2,563 → 2,806. 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 Gulf Gate’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Gulf Gate commutes less than 7 miles
About 24% 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.
Gulf Gate is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Gulf Gate is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns, #80 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 4.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, above 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 3,800 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 19% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 9.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 93% 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). 5.6% of Gulf Gate households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Gulf Gate’s commuters take a bus or train.
Gulf Gate next to U.S. towns of 5,600 to 10,800: 1,987th of 3,015 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 43 | Southwest Ranches FL | 7,773 | $161K | 3.8% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 183 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 342 | Westlake FL | 9,042 | $132K | 3.2% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,985 | Newfane NY | 9,139 | $75K | 10.0% | 5.8% | 14% | C+ |
| 1,986 | Northfield VT | 5,873 | $72K | 12.5% | 2.9% | 24% | C+ |
| 1,987 | Gulf Gate FL | 7,998 | $61K | 13.4% | 5.0% | 5% | C+ |
| 1,988 | Osceola IA | 5,679 | $68K | 6.4% | 6.0% | 44% | C+ |
| 1,989 | Talent OR | 6,296 | $63K | 11.7% | 4.0% | 5% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,015 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Gulf Gate, 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 Gulf Gate: questions
What is the median household income in Gulf Gate?
$61,379 (±$10,691) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gulf Gate?
13.4%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gulf Gate?
20 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gulf Gate work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sarasota (17%, 6 mi), South Sarasota (5%, 2 mi), Fruitville (4%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Gulf Gate walkable?
Gulf Gate is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 14.6 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Gulf Gate without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 19% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Gulf Gate, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gulf Gate
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.