Trapper Nelson Zoo Historic District · Photo: Norletsk · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Limestone Creek commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
98 jobs are based in Limestone Creek, against 568 working residents. Limestone Creek grades B− for jobs and income and A for walkability. 2% of workers have no commute at all (Florida 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Limestone Creek and work: the main findings
Limestone Creek is a place people come home to
There are 98 jobs based in Limestone Creek, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Limestone Creek has about 1,000 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Limestone Creek and Jupiter trade workers both ways
Jupiter is the top workplace for Limestone Creek residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Limestone Creek come from (20% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Limestone Creek workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 38 minutes each way, against 28 across Florida. Over a year that’s about 291 hours of commuting, 77 more than the state’s typical worker. 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 568 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Limestone Creek’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Limestone Creek is better than 50% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Limestone Creek’s grade up (ahead of 76% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (29.6%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (2.4%) is left out: Limestone Creek’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, Limestone Creek could be anywhere from C to A−.
Limestone Creek by day and by night
On a workday 564 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 94 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Limestone Creek on a workday afternoon, 32% 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.
17% of working residents work in Jupiter
Where Limestone Creek clocks in
17% 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.
Limestone Creek’s commute takes about 38 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Limestone Creek workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 873 commuters (the 2% 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.
What Limestone Creek’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Limestone Creek, 2013 → 2023: 58 → 98. 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 Limestone Creek’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Limestone Creek
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.
Limestone Creek is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Limestone Creek is more walkable than 95% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Limestone Creek 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 888 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). 0.0% of Limestone Creek households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Limestone Creek’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000, Limestone Creek ranks 2,237th of 6,308 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Fisher Island FL | 1,026 | $250K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 120 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 126 | Lake Mary Jane FL | 1,792 | $146K | 0.0% | 3.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,235 | Ligonier PA | 1,462 | $71K | 8.9% | 3.9% | 11% | B− |
| 2,236 | Florence TX | 1,245 | $79K | 14.7% | 5.0% | 5% | B− |
| 2,237 | Limestone Creek FL | 1,466 | $91K | 29.6% | 2.4% | 1% | B− |
| 2,238 | McDade TX | 1,070 | $50K | 6.3% | 2.0% | 2% | B− |
| 2,239 | Benns Church VA | 1,813 | $56K | 5.0% | 1.8% | <1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | 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 Limestone Creek, 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 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 Limestone Creek: questions
What is the median household income in Limestone Creek?
$90,910 (±$25,993) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Limestone Creek?
29.6%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Limestone Creek?
38 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Limestone Creek work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jupiter (17%, 2 mi), West Palm Beach (10%, 14 mi), Palm Beach Gardens (8%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Limestone Creek walkable?
Limestone Creek is more walkable than 95% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 10.3 out of 20, and 16% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Limestone Creek without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Limestone Creek, from the people who make the trip.
More of Limestone Creek
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.