Photo: Michael Rivera · CC BY-SA 4.0Minneola has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
2,096 jobs are based in Minneola, against 6,782 working residents. Jobs and income earn Minneola A; getting around on foot earns it B−. Household incomes here are higher than in 84% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Minneola at work: what stands out
Minneola’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Minneola is Orlando, 26 miles away as the crow flies. 15% of working residents (1,016) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Minneola makes and builds things
39% of the jobs based in Minneola are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Minneola residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 12%. 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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Minneola
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Minneola is better than 89% of U.S. towns, #41 of 638 in Florida. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Minneola’s grade. It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Minneola could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
How many miles Minneola commutes
About 18% 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.
Minneola makes things: 39% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Minneola, 2013 → 2023: 1,724 → 2,096. 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 Minneola’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in Minneola, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 6,636 residents head out to work, 146 work right here, and 1,950 people come in from elsewhere.
About 16,000 people are in Minneola on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
15% of working residents work in Orlando
Where Minneola clocks in
15% of workers
11% 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.
Minneola’s commute takes about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Minneola workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6,896 commuters (the 16% 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.
In Minneola, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Minneola is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns, #487 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.1% 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 8,233 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). 2.3% of Minneola households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Minneola’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 1,705 U.S. towns of 15,000 to 28,000, Minneola comes 349th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Wolf Trap VA | 15,858 | $250K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 60 | Pinecrest FL | 18,635 | $206K | 4.3% | 3.0% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 82 | Lake Butler FL | 17,125 | $183K | 3.7% | 2.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 110 | Palm Valley FL | 19,796 | $117K | 4.2% | 1.2% | 13% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 347 | Caln Township PA | 15,287 | $100K | 4.8% | 3.1% | 5% | A |
| 348 | Auburn MA | 17,566 | $117K | 5.2% | 3.6% | 10% | A |
| 349 | Minneola FL | 21,064 | $111K | 4.7% | 3.0% | 2% | A |
| 350 | South Pasadena CA | 25,503 | $127K | 4.9% | 5.1% | 5% | A |
| 351 | Norwalk IA | 15,004 | $103K | 4.2% | 3.4% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,705 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Minneola, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Work next door: 11% of Minneola’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Clermont. Darker towns draw more of Minneola’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 Minneola: questions
What is the median household income in Minneola?
$110,902 (±$7,087) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Minneola?
4.7%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Minneola?
27 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Minneola work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Orlando (15%, 26 mi), Clermont (11%, 5 mi), Lake Buena Vista (6%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Minneola walkable?
Minneola is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 8.9 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Minneola without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Minneola, from the people who make the trip.
More of Minneola
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.