Indian River Estates has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
For jobs and income Indian River Estates is better than 26% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns (C). Employers in Indian River Estates report 230 jobs, against 2,956 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 4% of workers, where Florida as a whole has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Indian River Estates
Indian River Estates is a place people come home to
There are 230 jobs based in Indian River Estates, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Indian River Estates has about 5,000 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of Indian River Estates works one town over
32% of working residents work in a town that borders Indian River Estates: Fort Pierce (21%) and Port St. Lucie (11%). Next door ↓
Few Indian River Estates workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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.
What’s behind Indian River Estates’ Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Indian River Estates’ grade up (ahead of 61% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (20.7%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Indian River Estates could be anywhere from D to B+.
The daily commute in and out of Indian River Estates
On a workday 2,902 residents head out to work, 54 work right here, and 176 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,000 people are in Indian River Estates on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
Indian River Estates’ commute takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Indian River Estates workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,940 commuters (the 4% 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.
21% of working residents work in Fort Pierce
Where Indian River Estates clocks in
21% of workers
11% of workers
7% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 55% of the jobs in Indian River Estates
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Indian River Estates, 2013 → 2023: 214 → 230. 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 Indian River Estates’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Indian River Estates commutes less than 13 miles
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.
In Indian River Estates, most people drive to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 5.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,062 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.7% of Indian River Estates households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Indian River Estates’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Indian River Estates is 2,412th of 3,051 U.S. towns of 5,400 to 10,400
| # | 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+ |
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| 41 | Southwest Ranches FL | 7,773 | $161K | 3.8% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 177 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 332 | Westlake FL | 9,042 | $132K | 3.2% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,410 | Sansom Park TX | 5,419 | $42K | 26.7% | 5.9% | 1% | C |
| 2,411 | College Place WA | 9,923 | $62K | 11.3% | 6.4% | 13% | C |
| 2,412 | Indian River Estates FL | 7,685 | $64K | 20.7% | 5.9% | 2% | C |
| 2,413 | Pontoon Beach IL | 5,887 | $63K | 21.7% | 11.0% | 4% | C |
| 2,414 | Pratt KS | 6,574 | $64K | 14.3% | 3.7% | 48% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,051 | 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 Indian River Estates, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Next door is work for 32% of Indian River Estates
The biggest share goes to Fort Pierce (21%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Indian River Estates workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian River Estates | – | C | C | 24 min | $64,063 |
| Fort Pierce | 21% | D | B+ | 27 min | $47,072 |
| Port St. Lucie | 11% | B− | B− | 31 min | $80,648 |
| White City | under 2% | B+ | B− | 21 min | $117,720 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Indian River Estates’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 Indian River Estates: questions
What is the median household income in Indian River Estates?
$64,063 (±$15,660) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Indian River Estates?
20.7%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Indian River Estates?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Indian River Estates work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Pierce (21%, 6 mi), Port St. Lucie (11%, 8 mi), Stuart (7%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Indian River Estates walkable?
Indian River Estates is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Indian River Estates without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Indian River Estates, from the people who make the trip.
More of Indian River Estates
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.