Jobs, pay and the trip to work in Palm Shores
Working residents average 25 minutes each way, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. Jobs and income earn Palm Shores B+; getting around on foot earns it C. Palm Shores has 448 jobs for 491 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Palm Shores apart
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Palm Shores
On income, poverty and job access, Palm Shores is better than 69% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input (6.2%, U.S. 12.5%); household income ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns ($77,500, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (1.7%) is left out: Palm Shores’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Palm Shores could be anywhere from C+ to A.
24% of working residents work in Melbourne
Where Palm Shores clocks in
24% of workers
9% 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.
Palm Shores on a workday afternoon
On a workday 489 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 446 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.91 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
69% of the jobs in Palm Shores pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Palm Shores, 2014 → 2024: 427 → 448. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Palm Shores’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 25 minutes each way, quicker than most of Florida
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Palm Shores workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 711 commuters (the 13% 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 it is to work from Palm Shores
About 28% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
For most of Palm Shores, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Palm Shores is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.6% 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 815 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). 2.9% of Palm Shores households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Palm Shores’ commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Palm Shores is 762nd among 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Fisher Island FL | 1,026 | $250K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 92 | Golden Beach FL | 1,029 | $236K | 7.1% | 2.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 124 | Belleair Beach FL | 1,581 | $164K | 5.9% | 3.6% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 760 | Lincoln WI | 1,093 | $111K | 7.9% | 5.8% | <1% | B+ |
| 761 | Glidden TX | 1,071 | $99K | 2.4% | 0.0% | <1% | B+ |
| 762 | Palm Shores FL | 1,209 | $78K | 6.2% | 1.7% | <1% | B+ |
| 763 | East Berlin PA | 1,582 | $74K | 6.5% | 8.2% | 4% | B+ |
| 764 | Lake Mary Township MN | 1,185 | $103K | 3.7% | 0.0% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Palm Shores, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
The towns next door employ 24% of Palm Shores
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Palm Shores workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palm Shores | – | B+ | C | 25 min | $77,500 |
| Melbourne | 24% | C+ | A | 23 min | $66,991 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Melbourne. Darker towns draw more of Palm Shores’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 2024, 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 Palm Shores: questions
What is the median household income in Palm Shores?
$77,500 (±$27,454) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Palm Shores?
6.2%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Palm Shores?
25 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Palm Shores work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Melbourne (24%, 6 mi), Palm Bay (9%, 16 mi), Rockledge (4%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Palm Shores walkable?
Palm Shores is more walkable than 32% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Palm Shores without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Palm Shores, from the people who make the trip.
More of Palm Shores
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.