English, J. Colin, School · Photo: Wknight94 · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Palmona Park have lower incomes than those in 94% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Palmona Park C−; getting around on foot earns it A+. 26.7% of residents live below the poverty line, next to 12.6% for Florida as a whole. For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 9.7 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 4.1 in Fort Myers.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Palmona Park in brief
Palmona Park and Cape Coral trade workers both ways
Cape Coral is the top workplace for Palmona Park residents (15%) and also where the most people who work in Palmona Park come from (19% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Palmona Park is a place people come home to
There are 119 jobs based in Palmona Park, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Palmona Park has about 790 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Palmona Park workers work from home
Only 1% of workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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 444 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Palmona Park
On income, poverty and job access, Palmona Park is better than 18% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Palmona Park’s grade up (ahead of 69% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Palmona Park’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Palmona Park could be anywhere from C− to C+.
15% of working residents work in Cape Coral
Where Palmona Park clocks in
15% of workers
10% 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.
How many people are in Palmona Park by day
On a workday 440 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 115 people come in from elsewhere.
About 790 people are in Palmona Park on a workday afternoon, 29% fewer than live here.
0.27 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
About 28 minutes each way for Palmona Park’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Palmona Park workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 419 commuters (the 1% 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.
What Palmona Park’s employers do
119 jobs are based in Palmona Park.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Palmona Park, 2013 → 2023: 158 → 119. 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 Palmona Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Palmona Park
About 29% 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.
Palmona 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, Palmona Park is more walkable than 98% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Palmona Park 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 422 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 9.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 93% 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). 0.0% of Palmona Park households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 9% of Palmona Park’s commuters take a bus or train.
Palmona Park is 2,636th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500 on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Fisher Island FL | 1,026 | $250K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 78 | Golden Beach FL | 1,029 | $236K | 7.1% | 2.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 211 | Yalaha FL | 1,404 | $121K | 0.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,634 | Jefferson NY | 1,336 | $67K | 11.5% | 8.5% | 6% | C− |
| 2,635 | Jackson Township OH | 1,053 | $73K | 17.9% | 0.0% | 2% | C− |
| 2,636 | Palmona Park FL | 1,115 | $44K | 26.7% | 0.0% | 1% | C− |
| 2,637 | Edmund SC | 1,161 | $43K | 23.8% | 9.2% | <1% | C− |
| 2,638 | Dodson Branch TN | 1,425 | $74K | 26.1% | 10.4% | <1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Palmona Park, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
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 Palmona Park: questions
What is the median household income in Palmona Park?
$43,930 (±$4,134) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Palmona Park?
26.7%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Palmona Park?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Palmona Park work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cape Coral (15%, 7 mi), Fort Myers (10%, 6 mi), North Fort Myers (7%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Palmona Park walkable?
Palmona Park is more walkable than 98% of U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 13.5 out of 20, and 14% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Palmona Park without a car?
9% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Palmona Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Palmona 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.