Households in Heathrow have higher incomes than those in 90% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 42% of workers, where Florida as a whole has 16%. 3.5% of residents are in poverty, where Florida as a whole has 12.6%. Jobs and income earn Heathrow A; getting around on foot earns it B.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Heathrow
Home offices are common in Heathrow
42% of Heathrow workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Time on the road ↓
Most jobs in Heathrow pay over $40,000 a year
80% of the jobs based in Heathrow pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. The jobs ↓
Heathrow is where the jobs are
Heathrow has 4,266 jobs, 1.5 for every working resident. 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.
Inside Heathrow’s Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Heathrow’s grade up ($126,250, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (4.4%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Heathrow could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
Getting to work from Heathrow takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Heathrow workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,723 commuters (the 42% 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.
80% of the jobs in Heathrow pay over $3,333 a month
4,266 jobs are based in Heathrow.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Heathrow, 2013 → 2023: 4,201 → 4,266. 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 Heathrow’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Heathrow
On a workday 2,725 residents head out to work, 87 work right here, and 4,179 people come in from elsewhere.
About 8,200 people are in Heathrow on a workday afternoon, 21% more than live here.
1.5 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Who travels to work in Heathrow, and from where
Where Heathrow clocks in
12% of workers
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.
Miles to work from Heathrow
About 21% 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.
In Heathrow, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Heathrow is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns, #356 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.5% 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 2,947 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 54% 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 3.9 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 80% 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). 3.7% of Heathrow households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Heathrow’s commuters take a bus or train.
Heathrow places 424th of 3,253 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 4,700 to 9,100
| # | 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 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 43 | Southwest Ranches FL | 7,773 | $161K | 3.8% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 173 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 329 | Westlake FL | 9,042 | $132K | 3.2% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 422 | Colona Township IL | 6,595 | $84K | 3.5% | 0.5% | 5% | A |
| 423 | Lafayette Township OH | 6,222 | $103K | 7.5% | 1.1% | 2% | A |
| 424 | Heathrow FL | 6,769 | $126K | 3.5% | 4.4% | 3% | A |
| 425 | Massanetta Springs VA | 6,358 | $115K | 6.3% | 1.2% | 4% | A |
| 426 | Milford MI | 6,520 | $106K | 7.6% | 2.1% | 6% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,253 | 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 Heathrow, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Next door is work for 12% of Heathrow
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Lake Mary. Darker towns draw more of Heathrow’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 Heathrow: questions
What is the median household income in Heathrow?
$126,250 (±$21,404) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Heathrow?
3.5%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Heathrow?
26 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 42% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Heathrow work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lake Mary (12%, 3 mi), Orlando (11%, 21 mi), Sanford (7%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Heathrow walkable?
Heathrow is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 9.6 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Heathrow without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Heathrow, from the people who make the trip.
More of Heathrow
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.