Photo: DanTD · CC BY-SA 4.0Lake Hamilton’s household incomes are lower than in 73% of U.S. towns
Only 1% work in Lake Hamilton; the top destination outside it is Lakeland (9%, 20 miles). 26.9% of residents are in poverty, next to 12.6% for Florida as a whole. The two grades for Lake Hamilton are C− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Lake Hamilton: the figures worth knowing
Stores, warehouses and trucking
49% of the jobs in Lake Hamilton are in trade, transport and utilities, against 28% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Fewer than half of Lake Hamilton workers earn over $40,000 a year
43% of Lake Hamilton’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 15% earn $1,250 a month or less. The jobs ↓
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 517 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Lake Hamilton’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Lake Hamilton is better than 20% of U.S. towns, #572 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Lake Hamilton’s grade up (ahead of 52% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (1.1%) is left out: Lake Hamilton’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, Lake Hamilton could be anywhere from D to C+.
Goods, not services: 28% of the jobs in Lake Hamilton
647 jobs are based in Lake Hamilton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lake Hamilton, 2013 → 2023: 189 → 647. 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 Lake Hamilton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Lake Hamilton: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 511 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 641 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.25 per resident).
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 places Lake Hamilton commutes to
Where Lake Hamilton clocks in
9% of workers
6% of workers
6% 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.
About 27 minutes each way for Lake Hamilton’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lake Hamilton workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 601 commuters (the 19% 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 far Lake Hamilton goes to work
About 29% 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.
Most trips from Lake Hamilton start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lake Hamilton is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns, #513 of 638 in Florida. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 5.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 741 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). 0.8% of Lake Hamilton households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lake Hamilton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Lake Hamilton next to U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,100: 3,791st of 4,771 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 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 73 | Geneva FL | 3,441 | $133K | 0.6% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 75 | Windermere FL | 3,344 | $178K | 1.3% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 105 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,789 | Sandcreek Township IN | 3,131 | $64K | 15.5% | 5.8% | 5% | C− |
| 3,790 | Cape Vincent NY | 2,439 | $61K | 9.3% | 3.9% | 14% | C− |
| 3,791 | Lake Hamilton FL | 3,007 | $60K | 26.9% | 1.1% | 1% | C− |
| 3,792 | New Town ND | 2,715 | $53K | 24.0% | 1.9% | 21% | C− |
| 3,793 | Baxter TN | 2,128 | $59K | 20.5% | 0.8% | 2% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,771 | 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 Lake Hamilton, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
The towns around Lake Hamilton
The biggest share goes to Haines City (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lake Hamilton workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Hamilton | – | C− | C+ | 27 min | $60,486 |
| Haines City | 6% | C+ | B− | 36 min | $65,975 |
| Dundee | under 2% | C | C+ | 35 min | $48,668 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Lake Hamilton’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 Lake Hamilton: questions
What is the median household income in Lake Hamilton?
$60,486 (±$15,403) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lake Hamilton?
26.9%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lake Hamilton?
27 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lake Hamilton work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lakeland (9%, 20 mi), Winter Haven (6%, 7 mi), Haines City (6%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lake Hamilton walkable?
Lake Hamilton is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lake Hamilton 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 Lake Hamilton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lake Hamilton
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.