Photo: Guspederson · CC BY-SA 4.0Manasota Key has higher household incomes than 94% of U.S. towns
44% of workers have no commute at all, where Florida as a whole has 16%. Below the poverty line: 2.4% of residents, next to 12.6% for Florida as a whole. Jobs and income earn Manasota Key B+; getting around on foot earns it A.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Manasota Key stands out on work
A lot of Manasota Key works from home
44% of Manasota Key workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Time on the road ↓
Manasota Key and Englewood trade workers both ways
Englewood is the top workplace for Manasota Key residents (20%) and also where the most people who work in Manasota Key come from (14% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
38% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 354 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Manasota Key’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Manasota Key is better than 74% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Manasota Key’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 8% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (3.9%) is left out: Manasota Key’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, Manasota Key could be anywhere from C to A−.
Manasota Key’s commute takes about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Manasota Key workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 319 commuters (the 44% 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.
20% of working residents work in Englewood
Where Manasota Key clocks in
20% of workers
5% 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 it is to work from Manasota Key
About 38% 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.
How many people are in Manasota Key by day
On a workday 338 residents head out to work, 16 work right here, and 508 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Manasota Key on a workday afternoon, 10% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.48 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
524 jobs are based in Manasota Key.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Manasota Key, 2013 → 2023: 292 → 524. 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 Manasota Key’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Manasota Key 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, Manasota Key is more walkable than 89% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 21.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 8.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 572 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). 6.0% of Manasota Key households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Manasota Key’s commuters take a bus or train.
Manasota Key next to U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300: 945th of 5,760 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 98 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 124 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 129 | Lake Mary Jane FL | 1,792 | $146K | 0.0% | 3.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 943 | Grand Isle VT | 2,172 | $101K | 6.8% | 0.3% | 6% | B+ |
| 944 | Texas WI | 1,604 | $87K | 3.9% | 3.1% | <1% | B+ |
| 945 | Manasota Key FL | 1,711 | $142K | 2.4% | 3.9% | 5% | B+ |
| 946 | Guilford Lake OH | 1,307 | $93K | 5.7% | 2.8% | 1% | B+ |
| 947 | Somonauk IL | 1,770 | $85K | 3.9% | 5.2% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Manasota Key, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Bordering towns draw 20% of Manasota Key’s workers
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Manasota Key workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manasota Key | – | B+ | A | 27 min | $142,250 |
| Englewood | 20% | C | B | 23 min | $69,222 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Englewood. Darker towns draw more of Manasota Key’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 Manasota Key: questions
What is the median household income in Manasota Key?
$142,250 (±$84,965) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Manasota Key?
2.4%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Manasota Key?
27 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 44% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Manasota Key work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Englewood (20%, 3 mi), Venice (5%, 14 mi), Port Charlotte (4%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Manasota Key walkable?
Manasota Key is more walkable than 89% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.0 out of 20, and 21% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Manasota Key without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Manasota Key, from the people who make the trip.
More of Manasota Key
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.