Few U.S. towns have unemployment as high as Harbour Heights’ 16.4%
Working residents average 27 minutes each way, next to 28 for Florida and 26 for the U.S. Harbour Heights grades C− for jobs and income and D for walkability. Only 3% stay in Harbour Heights for work; outside it, Port Charlotte is the main destination (16%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Harbour Heights, in brief
Harbour Heights makes and builds things
50% of the jobs based in Harbour Heights are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Harbour Heights residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 17%. The jobs ↓
Harbour Heights and Port Charlotte trade workers both ways
Port Charlotte is the top workplace for Harbour Heights residents (16%) and also where the most people who work in Harbour Heights come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Harbour Heights is a place people come home to
There are 306 jobs based in Harbour Heights, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Harbour Heights
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Harbour Heights is better than 18% of U.S. towns, #579 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Harbour Heights’ grade up (ahead of 43% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Harbour Heights could be anywhere from D to B+.
A place that makes things: 50% of Harbour Heights’ jobs are in goods
306 jobs are based in Harbour Heights.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Harbour Heights, 2013 → 2023: 243 → 306. 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 Harbour Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The towns that employ Harbour Heights’ residents
Where Harbour Heights clocks in
9% 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.
Who leaves Harbour Heights for work, and who comes in
On a workday 1,203 residents head out to work, 33 work right here, and 273 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,400 people are in Harbour Heights on a workday afternoon, 22% fewer than live here.
0.25 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.
A commute of about 27 minutes in Harbour Heights
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Harbour Heights workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,415 commuters (the 18% 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 many miles Harbour Heights commutes
About 27% 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.
Few in Harbour Heights walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Harbour Heights is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns, #613 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 1,736 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). 5.9% of Harbour Heights households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Harbour Heights’ commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 3,000 to 5,800, Harbour Heights ranks 3,369th of 4,039 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 52 | Bay Hill FL | 4,512 | $128K | 0.7% | 1.5% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 86 | Geneva FL | 3,441 | $133K | 0.6% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 88 | Windermere FL | 3,344 | $178K | 1.3% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,367 | Marion Township OH | 5,543 | $60K | 14.2% | 9.2% | 11% | C− |
| 3,368 | New Martinsville WV | 5,039 | $61K | 15.5% | 5.3% | 27% | C− |
| 3,369 | Harbour Heights FL | 4,289 | $65K | 14.2% | 16.4% | 3% | C− |
| 3,370 | Winchester IN | 4,817 | $52K | 18.3% | 5.0% | 29% | C− |
| 3,371 | Whiteville NC | 4,765 | $31K | 20.7% | 3.2% | 27% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,039 | 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 Harbour Heights, 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 Harbour Heights: questions
What is the median household income in Harbour Heights?
$65,152 (±$19,786) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Harbour Heights?
14.2%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Harbour Heights?
27 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Harbour Heights work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Port Charlotte (16%, 7 mi), Punta Gorda (9%, 8 mi), Fort Myers (4%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Harbour Heights walkable?
Harbour Heights is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Harbour Heights without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Harbour Heights, from the people who make the trip.
More of Harbour Heights
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.