Most of Manatee Road commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
1% of workers have no commute at all, against 16% across Florida. Manatee Road has 86 jobs for 970 working residents. For jobs and income Manatee Road is better than 3% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (D−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Manatee Road, in a few figures
Manatee Road is a place people come home to
There are 86 jobs based in Manatee Road, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Manatee Road has about 1,500 people in it, 36% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Manatee Road’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Manatee Road is Gainesville, 36 miles away as the crow flies. 11% of working residents (110) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
33% 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 970 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Manatee Road
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Manatee Road’s grade.
Unemployment (6.7%) is left out: Manatee Road’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Manatee Road could be anywhere from D− to C−.
How many people are in Manatee Road by day
On a workday 947 residents head out to work, 23 work right here, and 63 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Manatee Road on a workday afternoon, 36% 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.
Manatee Road’s commute, mile by mile
About 33% 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.
11% of working residents work in Gainesville
Where Manatee Road clocks in
11% of workers
11% 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.
A place that makes things: 66% of Manatee Road’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Manatee Road, 2013 → 2023: 77 → 86. 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 Manatee Road’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Manatee Road, about 32 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Manatee Road workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 764 commuters (the 1% 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.
For most of Manatee Road, work means a drive
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 771 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). 4.0% of Manatee Road households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Manatee Road’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,300, and where Manatee Road sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
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| 95 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 97 | Pelican Marsh FL | 2,617 | $143K | 2.7% | 1.5% | 6% | A+ |
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| 127 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
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| 4,954 | Tappahannock VA | 2,193 | $47K | 25.2% | 0.0% | 13% | D− |
| 4,955 | Posey Township IN | 1,872 | $43K | 23.7% | 0.0% | 1% | D− |
| 4,956 | Manatee Road FL | 2,426 | $52K | 19.9% | 6.7% | 2% | D− |
| 4,957 | Des Arc AR | 1,841 | $31K | 20.0% | 4.2% | 15% | D− |
| 4,958 | Tompkinsville KY | 2,235 | $39K | 27.3% | 7.4% | 29% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,207 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Manatee Road, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
11% of Manatee Road works in a bordering town
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Manatee Road workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manatee Road | – | D− | D− | 32 min | $51,708 |
| Chiefland | 11% | — | B+ | 31 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Chiefland. Darker towns draw more of Manatee Road’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 Manatee Road: questions
What is the median household income in Manatee Road?
$51,708 (±$14,627) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Manatee Road?
19.9%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Manatee Road?
32 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Manatee Road work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Gainesville (11%, 36 mi), Chiefland (11%, 4 mi), Bronson (8%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Manatee Road walkable?
Manatee Road is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Manatee Road without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Manatee Road, from the people who make the trip.
More of Manatee Road
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.