Robert W. Ferguson House · Photo: Paukenaut · CC BY-SA 3.0Ocala Estates has 0.0 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Ocala Estates has 18 jobs; 1,107 of its residents have a job. Getting around Ocala Estates on foot earns D. Home is the office for 0% of workers; Florida has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Ocala Estates, in a few figures
Ocala Estates is a place people come home to
There are 18 jobs based in Ocala Estates, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Ocala Estates has about 620 people in it, 64% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Ocala Estates workers work from home
Only 0% of workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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.
The daily commute in and out of Ocala Estates
On a workday 1,103 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 14 people come in from elsewhere.
About 620 people are in Ocala Estates on a workday afternoon, 64% 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.
Ocala Estates’ commute takes about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ocala Estates workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 684 commuters (the 0% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Ocala Estates
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.
25% of working residents work in Ocala
Where Ocala Estates clocks in
25% of workers
3% of workers
2% 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.
72% of the jobs in Ocala Estates make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
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 Ocala Estates’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting around Ocala Estates: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ocala Estates is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Ocala Estates near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 684 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). 4.0% of Ocala Estates households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ocala Estates’ commuters take a bus or train.
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 Ocala Estates: questions
What is the poverty rate in Ocala Estates?
26.4%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ocala Estates?
25 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ocala Estates work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ocala (25%, 10 mi), Orlando (3%, 78 mi), Jacksonville (2%, 88 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ocala Estates walkable?
Ocala Estates is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ocala Estates 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 Ocala Estates, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ocala Estates
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.