Most of Island Walk commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Island Walk report 79 jobs, and 930 of its residents work somewhere. Island Walk grades A− for jobs and income and C for walkability. Hardly any work in Island Walk; the top destination outside it is Naples (12%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Island Walk, in a few figures
What’s behind Island Walk’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Island Walk is better than 76% of U.S. towns, #125 of 638 in Florida. The poverty rate is its strongest input (4.7%, U.S. 12.5%); household income ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns ($81,103, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (14.0%) is left out: Island Walk’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Island Walk could be anywhere from B− to A.
How a workday changes Island Walk
On a workday 921 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 70 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Island Walk on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
Where Island Walk’s working residents head each day
Where Island Walk clocks in
12% of workers
3% 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 place that makes things: 32% of Island Walk’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Island Walk, 2013 → 2023: 65 → 79. 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 Island Walk’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Island Walk, about 28 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Island Walk workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 496 commuters (the 14% 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.
Where in the region Island Walk works
About 28% 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.
The commute in Island Walk is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Island Walk is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns, #537 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 578 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). 1.1% of Island Walk households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Island Walk’s commuters take a bus or train.
Island Walk is 971st of 4,969 U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,700 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Geneva FL | 3,441 | $133K | 0.6% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 67 | Windermere FL | 3,344 | $178K | 1.3% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 97 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 969 | South Buffalo Township PA | 2,674 | $93K | 5.5% | 3.3% | 3% | A− |
| 970 | Medford WI | 2,506 | $89K | 4.4% | 0.7% | 2% | A− |
| 971 | Island Walk FL | 2,722 | $81K | 4.7% | 14.0% | 1% | A− |
| 972 | North Yelm WA | 2,522 | $74K | 2.1% | 1.3% | <1% | A− |
| 973 | Santiago Township MN | 1,929 | $114K | 4.5% | 2.9% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,969 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Island Walk, 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 Island Walk: questions
What is the median household income in Island Walk?
$81,103 (±$15,324) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Island Walk?
4.7%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Island Walk?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Island Walk work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Naples (12%, 9 mi), Bonita Springs (3%, 8 mi), Estero (2%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Island Walk walkable?
Island Walk is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 8.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Island Walk without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Island Walk, from the people who make the trip.
More of Island Walk
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.