How Page Park works: jobs, income and commuting
Home is the office for 0% of workers, next to 16% for Florida as a whole. Hardly any work in Page Park itself; outside it, Fort Myers draws the most (19%, 3 miles). The average commute, 28 minutes each way, matches the Florida norm.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Page Park: the figures worth knowing
Page Park is where the jobs are
Page Park has 510 jobs, 1.7 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Page Park and Fort Myers trade workers both ways
Fort Myers is the top workplace for Page Park residents (19%) and also where the most people who work in Page Park come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The jobs in Page Park pay better than its residents’ jobs
70% of the jobs based in Page Park pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 44% of the jobs Page Park residents hold. 100% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Page Park. 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; with 297 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How many people are in Page Park by day
On a workday 296 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 509 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Page Park on a workday afternoon, 23% more than live here.
1.7 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.
Commuting in to Page Park: where workers come from
Where Page Park clocks in
19% 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.
Goods jobs make up 34% of work in Page Park
510 jobs are based in Page Park.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Page Park, 2013 → 2023: 433 → 510. 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 Page Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 28 minutes each way for Page Park’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Page Park workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 380 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.
How many miles Page Park commutes
About 26% 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.
The towns around Page Park
The biggest share goes to Villas (9%).
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Page 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 Page Park: questions
What is the median household income in Page Park?
$54,205 (±$9,146) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Page Park?
22.6%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Page Park?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Page Park work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Myers (19%, 3 mi), Villas (9%, 2 mi), Cape Coral (6%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Page Park without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Page Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Page 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.