Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0For about half of its working residents, Orange Park is a commute to Jacksonville
Only 6% work in Orange Park itself; outside it, Jacksonville draws the most (47%, 12 miles). Jobs and income earn Orange Park B−; getting around on foot earns it A. For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 0.4 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 2.1 in Jacksonville.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Orange Park in brief
Orange Park is where the jobs are
Orange Park has 6,299 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Nearly all the work in Orange Park is services
85% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 7% are in factories, building or farms. 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.
The figures behind Orange Park’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Orange Park is better than 46% of U.S. towns, #378 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Orange Park’s grade up (ahead of 79% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (6.3%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Orange Park could be anywhere from C to A−.
Orange Park on a workday afternoon
On a workday 3,647 residents head out to work, 234 work right here, and 6,065 people come in from elsewhere.
About 11,000 people are in Orange Park on a workday afternoon, 27% more than live here.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Services make up most of the work in Orange Park
6,299 jobs are based in Orange Park.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Orange Park, 2013 → 2023: 6,186 → 6,299. 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 Orange Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who travels to work in Orange Park, and from where
Where Orange Park clocks in
47% 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.
About 28 minutes each way, about the FL average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Orange Park workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,872 commuters (the 10% 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 far Orange Park goes to work
About 24% 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.
Orange Park is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Orange Park is more walkable than 89% of U.S. towns, #122 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 4.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, above 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 4,283 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 83% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 19% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.4 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 48% 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). 6.0% of Orange Park households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Orange Park’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Orange Park ranks: 1,814th of 2,862 U.S. towns of 6,300 to 12,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Braddock VA | 6,536 | $212K | 0.9% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
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| 39 | Southwest Ranches FL | 7,773 | $161K | 3.8% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
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| 183 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 339 | Westlake FL | 9,042 | $132K | 3.2% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
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| 1,812 | Beebe AR | 9,377 | $59K | 15.1% | 2.8% | 14% | B− |
| 1,813 | Crete NE | 7,747 | $77K | 11.6% | 4.4% | 28% | B− |
| 1,814 | Orange Park FL | 8,953 | $77K | 13.8% | 6.3% | 6% | B− |
| 1,815 | Obetz OH | 7,342 | $87K | 17.4% | 8.3% | 5% | B− |
| 1,816 | Urbana Township IL | 7,450 | $63K | 16.7% | 3.3% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,862 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Orange Park, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Next door is work for 56% of Orange Park
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Orange Park workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orange Park | – | B− | A | 28 min | $77,106 |
| Lakeside | 2% | B− | B− | 29 min | $81,684 |
| Fleming Island | 2% | A | B | 30 min | $116,611 |
| Jacksonville | 47% | B− | A− | 24 min | $69,872 |
| Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace | 5% | B | B | 26 min | $59,388 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Jacksonville. Darker towns draw more of Orange Park’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 Orange Park: questions
What is the median household income in Orange Park?
$77,106 (±$13,230) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Orange Park?
13.8%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Orange Park?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Orange Park work?
6% work in town.
Is Orange Park walkable?
Orange Park is more walkable than 89% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 12.6 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Orange Park without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 19% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Orange Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Orange Park
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.