Photo: DanTD · CC BY-SA 3.0Lake Panasoffkee’s household incomes are lower than in 93% of U.S. towns
For 8% of workers, the job is at home; Florida has 16%. 30.5% of residents live below the poverty line; Florida has 12.6%. The two grades for Lake Panasoffkee are D for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Lake Panasoffkee stands out on work
Where Lake Panasoffkee’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Lake Panasoffkee is better than 12% of U.S. towns, #607 of 638 in Florida. Unemployment holds Lake Panasoffkee’s grade up (4.6%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Lake Panasoffkee could be anywhere from D− to C+.
Lake Panasoffkee quiets down on a workday
On a workday 1,403 residents head out to work, 25 work right here, and 77 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,400 people are in Lake Panasoffkee on a workday afternoon, 28% fewer than live here.
0.07 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
11% of working residents work in Wildwood
Where Lake Panasoffkee clocks in
11% of workers
7% 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.
In Lake Panasoffkee, 28% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
102 jobs are based in Lake Panasoffkee.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lake Panasoffkee, 2014 → 2024: 99 → 102. 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 Panasoffkee’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Lake Panasoffkee: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lake Panasoffkee workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,735 commuters (the 8% 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.
The commute from Lake Panasoffkee, by distance
About 25% 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.
Driving is how Lake Panasoffkee gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lake Panasoffkee is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns, #524 of 638 in Florida. Both inputs place Lake Panasoffkee near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,880 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 7.7% of Lake Panasoffkee households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lake Panasoffkee’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Lake Panasoffkee compares with U.S. towns of 3,300 to 6,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Bay Hill FL | 4,512 | $128K | 0.7% | 1.5% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 82 | Geneva FL | 3,441 | $133K | 0.6% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 84 | Windermere FL | 3,344 | $178K | 1.3% | 2.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,482 | Rochester IN | 6,132 | $57K | 18.1% | 7.7% | 29% | D |
| 3,483 | Chester SC | 5,324 | $46K | 19.4% | 7.6% | 8% | D |
| 3,484 | Lake Panasoffkee FL | 4,768 | $45K | 30.5% | 4.6% | 2% | D |
| 3,485 | Iowa Falls IA | 5,013 | $50K | 10.7% | 9.1% | 37% | D |
| 3,486 | Lexington MO | 4,568 | $57K | 17.0% | 7.4% | 13% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,867 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Panasoffkee, 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 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 Panasoffkee: questions
What is the median household income in Lake Panasoffkee?
$44,531 (±$10,157) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lake Panasoffkee?
30.5%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lake Panasoffkee?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lake Panasoffkee work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wildwood (11%, 7 mi), Leesburg (7%, 14 mi), Bushnell (6%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Lake Panasoffkee walkable?
Lake Panasoffkee is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lake Panasoffkee without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lake Panasoffkee, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lake Panasoffkee
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.