Unemployment in Loxahatchee Groves (7.5%) is higher than in 86% of U.S. towns
Only 5% work in Loxahatchee Groves; the top destination outside it is West Palm Beach (10%, 9 miles). For jobs and income Loxahatchee Groves is better than 60% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns (A−). Measured by household income, Loxahatchee Groves is ahead of 85% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Loxahatchee Groves apart on work
Loxahatchee Groves trades workers with the towns around it
Loxahatchee Groves has about as many jobs (1,463) as working residents (1,530), but they are mostly different people: 1,455 residents leave for work each day while 1,388 people come in. Only 5% of the jobs in Loxahatchee Groves are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Loxahatchee Groves has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Loxahatchee Groves went from 893 in 2013 to 1,463 in 2023, +64%. The jobs ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Loxahatchee Groves
65% of Loxahatchee Groves residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 43% of the jobs based in Loxahatchee Groves pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 95% leave town for their job. 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How Loxahatchee Groves earns its Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Loxahatchee Groves’ grade up ($111,699, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down. It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Loxahatchee Groves could be anywhere from C+ to A+.
A workday in Loxahatchee Groves: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 1,455 residents head out to work, 75 work right here, and 1,388 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 (0.96 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
34% of the jobs in Loxahatchee Groves make or build things
1,463 jobs are based in Loxahatchee Groves.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Loxahatchee Groves, 2013 → 2023: 893 → 1,463. 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 Loxahatchee Groves’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where people from Loxahatchee Groves work
Where Loxahatchee Groves clocks in
6% 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.
Commuting from Loxahatchee Groves: about 29 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Loxahatchee Groves workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,393 commuters (the 12% 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.
How far it is to work from Loxahatchee Groves
About 15% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Loxahatchee Groves
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 9.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 6.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,588 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). 8.0% of Loxahatchee Groves households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Loxahatchee Groves’ commuters take a bus or train.
Loxahatchee Groves places 1,736th of 4,355 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 2,500 to 4,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 45 | Bay Hill FL | 4,512 | $128K | 0.7% | 1.5% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 81 | Geneva FL | 3,441 | $133K | 0.6% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 83 | Windermere FL | 3,344 | $178K | 1.3% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,734 | South Hackensack Township NJ | 2,755 | $85K | 13.7% | 5.6% | 3% | B |
| 1,735 | La Mesilla NM | 2,697 | $81K | 9.0% | 1.9% | 1% | B |
| 1,736 | Loxahatchee Groves FL | 3,549 | $112K | 8.5% | 7.5% | 5% | B |
| 1,737 | West Pittston PA | 4,682 | $64K | 13.4% | 1.5% | 4% | B |
| 1,738 | Ross Township IN | 2,854 | $86K | 6.1% | 4.9% | 9% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,355 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Loxahatchee Groves, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Work in the towns next to Loxahatchee Groves
The biggest share goes to Royal Palm Beach (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Loxahatchee Groves workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loxahatchee Groves | – | B | A− | 29 min | $111,699 |
| Royal Palm Beach | 4% | A− | A− | 31 min | $96,027 |
| Westlake | under 3% | A | B− | 45 min | $131,925 |
| The Acreage | under 3% | A− | C− | 38 min | $109,032 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Loxahatchee Groves’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 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 Loxahatchee Groves: questions
What is the median household income in Loxahatchee Groves?
$111,699 (±$30,194) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Loxahatchee Groves?
8.5%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Loxahatchee Groves?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Loxahatchee Groves work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are West Palm Beach (10%, 9 mi), Palm Springs (6%, 12 mi), Wellington (6%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Loxahatchee Groves walkable?
Loxahatchee Groves is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Loxahatchee Groves without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Loxahatchee Groves, from the people who make the trip.
More of Loxahatchee Groves
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.