With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Loughman works elsewhere
309 jobs are based in Loughman for 2,604 working residents. Loughman grades B for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Hardly any work in Loughman itself; outside it, Lake Buena Vista draws the most (21%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Loughman, in a few figures
Loughman is a place people come home to
There are 309 jobs based in Loughman, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Loughman has about 5,300 people in it, 30% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Loughman
52% of Loughman residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 24% of the jobs based in Loughman pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 100% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
44% of the jobs in Loughman are in trade, transport and utilities, against 19% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Loughman workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 28 across Florida. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Many jobs in Loughman pay little
29% of the jobs based in Loughman pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 46% 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 2023, 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: Loughman’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Loughman is better than 63% of U.S. towns, #225 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Loughman’s grade up (ahead of 78% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($66,273, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Loughman could be anywhere from C to A+.
The daily flow of workers through Loughman
On a workday 2,598 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 303 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,300 people are in Loughman on a workday afternoon, 30% 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.
What Loughman’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Loughman, 2013 → 2023: 47 → 309. 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 Loughman’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Loughman, about 34 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Loughman workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,237 commuters (the 22% 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.
Commuting out of Loughman: the destinations
Where Loughman clocks in
21% of workers
8% 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.
How far Loughman goes to work
About 21% 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.
In Loughman, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Loughman is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns, #461 of 638 in Florida. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 5.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,165 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). 5.3% of Loughman households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Loughman’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Loughman is 1,396th among 3,071 U.S. towns of 5,300 to 10,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 44 | Southwest Ranches FL | 7,773 | $161K | 3.8% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 181 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 336 | Westlake FL | 9,042 | $132K | 3.2% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,394 | Richmond Township IL | 6,781 | $96K | 4.9% | 10.3% | 8% | B |
| 1,395 | Sugarcreek Township OH | 6,505 | $65K | 11.3% | 1.2% | 9% | B |
| 1,396 | Loughman FL | 7,591 | $66K | 10.3% | 2.9% | <1% | B |
| 1,397 | Wrightsboro NC | 6,287 | $78K | 10.7% | 3.2% | 2% | B |
| 1,398 | White Hall AR | 5,532 | $78K | 8.6% | 3.1% | 12% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,071 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Loughman, 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 Loughman: questions
What is the median household income in Loughman?
$66,273 (±$22,577) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Loughman?
10.3%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Loughman?
34 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 22% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Loughman work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lake Buena Vista (21%, 10 mi), Orlando (8%, 22 mi), Four Corners (4%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Loughman walkable?
Loughman is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Loughman without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Loughman, from the people who make the trip.
More of Loughman
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.