Jobs, pay and the trip to work in Lake Hart
70% of workers have no commute at all, where Florida as a whole has 16%. Lake Hart has 425 jobs for 416 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Lake Hart
A lot of Lake Hart works from home
70% of Lake Hart workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Time on the road ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Lake Hart
63% of Lake Hart residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 24% of the jobs based in Lake Hart pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 99% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Many jobs in Lake Hart pay little
41% of the jobs based in Lake Hart pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 54% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 416 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Working from home in Lake Hart
of Lake Hart workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 71 commuters (the 70% 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.
Lake Hart is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lake Hart, 2014 → 2024: 38 → 425. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lake Hart’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Lake Hart by day and by night
On a workday 410 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 419 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 (1.02 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
36% of working residents work in Orlando
Where Lake Hart clocks in
36% of workers
3% 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.
The commute from Lake Hart, by distance
About 20% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Next door is work for 36% of Lake Hart
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Orlando. Darker towns draw more of Lake Hart’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 2024, 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 Hart: questions
What is the median household income in Lake Hart?
$121,000 (±$53,122) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lake Hart?
0.0%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Lake Hart work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Orlando (36%, 8 mi), Lake Buena Vista (3%, 18 mi), Jacksonville (3%, 138 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Lake Hart without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lake Hart, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lake Hart
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.