Photo: Wikisteveb4 · CC BY 4.0Lake Mary draws 28,151 commuters a day, with 3.9 jobs for every working resident
28,939 jobs are based in Lake Mary for 7,510 working residents. For jobs and income Lake Mary is better than 95% of U.S. towns (A+); for walkability it is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns (B+). Measured by household income, Lake Mary is ahead of 83% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Lake Mary, in brief
Lake Mary fills up on a workday
Lake Mary has 28,939 jobs, 3.9 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 38,000 people are in town, more than double the 17,000 who live here. Day and night ↓
Lake Mary draws workers from far and wide
The 28,939 jobs in Lake Mary are filled from a wide area. The ten biggest home towns of its workers supply 27%; the other 70% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
A lot of Lake Mary works from home
27% of Lake Mary 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 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Income, poverty and work: Lake Mary’s grade explained
All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Lake Mary’s grade. It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Lake Mary could be anywhere from A− to A+.
The workday shuffle in and out of Lake Mary
On a workday 6,722 residents head out to work and 788 work right here.
About 38,000 people are in Lake Mary on a workday afternoon, 128% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Who travels to work in Lake Mary, and from where
Where Lake Mary clocks in
14% 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.
About 25 minutes each way, quicker than most of Florida
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lake Mary workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6,741 commuters (the 27% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Lake Mary
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lake Mary, 2014 → 2024: 21,911 → 28,939. 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 Mary’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Lake Mary goes to work
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.
In Lake Mary, most people drive to work
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.3% of 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 9,175 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 26% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, <1% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 2.4 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 71% 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). 2.7% of Lake Mary households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Lake Mary’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Lake Mary is 151st among 1,999 U.S. towns of 12,000 to 23,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 70 | Pinecrest FL | 18,635 | $206K | 4.3% | 3.0% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 90 | Lake Butler FL | 17,125 | $183K | 3.7% | 2.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 119 | Palm Valley FL | 19,796 | $117K | 4.2% | 1.2% | 13% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 149 | Jarvis Township IL | 16,209 | $118K | 2.1% | 2.8% | 9% | A+ |
| 150 | Buckingham Township PA | 20,757 | $190K | 3.5% | 3.3% | 7% | A+ |
| 151 | Lake Mary FL | 16,789 | $109K | 3.5% | 2.6% | 10% | A+ |
| 152 | Concord MA | 18,208 | $195K | 3.7% | 3.7% | 13% | A+ |
| 153 | Sharon Township OH | 16,863 | $127K | 3.2% | 3.6% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,999 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 28% | 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 Mary, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Next door to Lake Mary
The biggest share goes to Sanford (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Lake Mary’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 Mary: questions
What is the median household income in Lake Mary?
$109,173 (±$19,194) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lake Mary?
3.5%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lake Mary?
25 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 26% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lake Mary work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Orlando (14%, 20 mi), Sanford (8%, 4 mi), Altamonte Springs (4%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Lake Mary walkable?
Lake Mary is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 9.4 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lake Mary without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. <1% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lake Mary, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lake Mary
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. 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.