Meadow Oaks has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Home is the office for 24% of workers (Florida 16%). 62 jobs are based in Meadow Oaks for 815 working residents. Jobs and income earn Meadow Oaks B−; getting around on foot earns it C+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Meadow Oaks and work: the main findings
Meadow Oaks is a place people come home to
There are 62 jobs based in Meadow Oaks, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
Meadow Oaks’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Meadow Oaks is Tampa, 27 miles away as the crow flies. 12% of working residents (95) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A lot of Meadow Oaks works from home
24% of Meadow Oaks workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Time on the road ↓
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 815 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Meadow Oaks
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Meadow Oaks is better than 52% of U.S. towns, #319 of 638 in Florida. The poverty rate holds Meadow Oaks’ grade up (7.9%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($61,506, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on unemployment and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Meadow Oaks could be anywhere from C− to A.
How many people are in Meadow Oaks by day
On a workday 812 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 59 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,000 people are in Meadow Oaks on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Meadow Oaks
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.
From Meadow Oaks, about 26 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Meadow Oaks workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,156 commuters (the 24% 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.
12% of working residents work in Tampa
Where Meadow Oaks clocks in
12% 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.
Goods, not services: 37% of the jobs in Meadow Oaks
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Meadow Oaks, 2013 → 2023: 31 → 62. 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 Meadow Oaks’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In Meadow Oaks, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Meadow Oaks is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns, #527 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.5% of 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 1,529 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 55% 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 1.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 58% 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). 0.5% of Meadow Oaks households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Meadow Oaks’ commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Meadow Oaks is 2,092nd among 4,318 U.S. towns of 2,600 to 5,000
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 79 | Geneva FL | 3,441 | $133K | 0.6% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 81 | Windermere FL | 3,344 | $178K | 1.3% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,090 | Pittsfield NH | 4,148 | $74K | 11.3% | 1.4% | 13% | B− |
| 2,091 | Bristol VT | 3,759 | $75K | 10.1% | 1.5% | 15% | B− |
| 2,092 | Meadow Oaks FL | 3,705 | $62K | 7.9% | 3.6% | <1% | B− |
| 2,093 | Grand Mound WA | 3,287 | $72K | 7.3% | 4.2% | 6% | B− |
| 2,094 | Imlay Township MI | 3,192 | $83K | 6.2% | 5.1% | 3% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,318 | 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 Meadow 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 Meadow Oaks: questions
What is the median household income in Meadow Oaks?
$61,506 (±$14,028) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Meadow Oaks?
7.9%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Meadow Oaks?
26 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 24% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Meadow Oaks work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tampa (12%, 27 mi), Spring Hill (3%, 10 mi), St. Petersburg (3%, 41 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Meadow Oaks walkable?
Meadow Oaks is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Meadow Oaks without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Meadow Oaks, from the people who make the trip.
More of Meadow 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.