Key Vista has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
For jobs and income Key Vista is better than 67% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (D). There are 58 jobs in Key Vista; 632 of its residents have a job. 25% of workers have no commute at all; Florida has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Key Vista, in brief
Key Vista is a place people come home to
There are 58 jobs based in Key Vista, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Key Vista has about 840 people in it, 40% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Key Vista’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Key Vista is Tampa, 24 miles away as the crow flies. 8% of working residents (50) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A lot of Key Vista works from home
25% of Key Vista workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. 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; with 632 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Key Vista’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Key Vista’s grade up (5.8%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($75,114, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Key Vista’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Key Vista could be anywhere from C to A.
Key Vista on a workday afternoon
On a workday 625 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 51 people come in from elsewhere.
About 840 people are in Key Vista on a workday afternoon, 40% 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.
The commute from Key Vista, by distance
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.
Commuting from Key Vista: about 31 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Key Vista workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 426 commuters (the 25% 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.
8% of working residents work in Tampa
Where Key Vista clocks in
8% of workers
6% 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.
28% of the jobs in Key Vista make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Key Vista, 2013 → 2023: 40 → 58. 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 Key Vista’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Driving is how Key Vista gets around
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 566 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). 4.9% of Key Vista households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Key Vista’s commuters take a bus or train.
Key Vista is 1,162nd of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Fisher Island FL | 1,026 | $250K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 111 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 117 | Lake Mary Jane FL | 1,792 | $146K | 0.0% | 3.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,160 | Burlington Township MN | 1,718 | $106K | 4.0% | 1.3% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,161 | Byers CO | 1,726 | $94K | 3.3% | 13.6% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,162 | Key Vista FL | 1,418 | $75K | 5.8% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,163 | Poncha Springs CO | 1,393 | $97K | 0.4% | 0.0% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,164 | Fair Grove MO | 1,645 | $75K | 5.0% | 4.9% | 7% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Key Vista, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
How Key Vista compares with the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Key Vista’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 Key Vista: questions
What is the median household income in Key Vista?
$75,114 (±$36,271) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Key Vista?
5.8%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Key Vista?
31 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 25% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Key Vista work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tampa (8%, 24 mi), Clearwater (6%, 15 mi), Largo (4%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Key Vista walkable?
Key Vista is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Key Vista without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Key Vista, from the people who make the trip.
More of Key Vista
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.