Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY 2.5Most of Marion Oaks commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Only 3% stay in Marion Oaks for work; outside it, Ocala is the main destination (31%, 12 miles). 1,065 jobs are based in Marion Oaks for 7,483 working residents. Marion Oaks grades B− for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Marion Oaks, in brief
Marion Oaks is a place people come home to
There are 1,065 jobs based in Marion Oaks, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Marion Oaks has about 18,000 people in it, 27% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
49% of the jobs in Marion Oaks are in trade, transport and utilities, against 23% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
31% of Marion Oaks works in Ocala
2,285 working residents, 31%, have their main job in Ocala, 13 miles away. That’s 10 times as many as work in Marion Oaks itself. The commute map ↓
Marion Oaks 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 ↓
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.
Marion Oaks’ Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Marion Oaks is better than 49% of U.S. towns, #348 of 638 in Florida. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Marion Oaks’ grade.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Marion Oaks could be anywhere from C to B+.
The workday shuffle in and out of Marion Oaks
On a workday 7,254 residents head out to work, 229 work right here, and 836 people come in from elsewhere.
About 18,000 people are in Marion Oaks on a workday afternoon, 27% 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 Marion Oaks’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Marion Oaks, 2013 → 2023: 982 → 1,065. 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 Marion Oaks’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Marion Oaks’ working residents head each day
Where Marion Oaks clocks in
31% of workers
3% of workers
3% 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.
Each way, about 34 minutes from Marion Oaks
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Marion Oaks workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 10,201 commuters (the 8% 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 many miles Marion Oaks commutes
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.
Few in Marion Oaks walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Marion Oaks is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns, #615 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.6% across Florida.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 11,116 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). 4.1% of Marion Oaks households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Marion Oaks’ commuters take a bus or train.
Marion Oaks places 1,066th of 1,577 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 17,000 to 32,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Lake Forest IL | 19,731 | $235K | 3.5% | 1.8% | 12% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Pinecrest FL | 18,635 | $206K | 4.3% | 3.0% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 62 | Lake Butler FL | 17,125 | $183K | 3.7% | 2.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 86 | Palm Valley FL | 19,796 | $117K | 4.2% | 1.2% | 13% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,064 | Easton MD | 17,293 | $75K | 11.0% | 3.4% | 31% | B− |
| 1,065 | Ozark MO | 23,544 | $74K | 12.6% | 4.3% | 11% | B− |
| 1,066 | Marion Oaks FL | 23,972 | $72K | 10.2% | 3.7% | 3% | B− |
| 1,067 | Greenbelt MD | 24,948 | $86K | 19.1% | 6.7% | 4% | B− |
| 1,068 | South Venice FL | 17,484 | $77K | 12.5% | 3.9% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,577 | Nogales AZ | 19,495 | $43K | 28.0% | 15.7% | 37% | 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 Marion Oaks, 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 Marion Oaks: questions
What is the median household income in Marion Oaks?
$72,392 (±$5,173) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Marion Oaks?
10.2%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Marion Oaks?
34 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Marion Oaks work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ocala (31%, 12 mi), Wildwood (3%, 18 mi), Gainesville (3%, 48 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Marion Oaks walkable?
Marion Oaks is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Marion Oaks without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Marion Oaks, from the people who make the trip.
More of Marion Oaks
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.