Photo: USAF · Public domainA job hub: Patrick AFB has 3.4 jobs per working resident, and 1,240 people come in to work
Hardly any work in Patrick AFB itself; outside it, Melbourne draws the most (7%, 9 miles). Patrick AFB has 1,240 jobs, against 369 working residents. Jobs and income earn Patrick AFB C+; getting around on foot earns it B+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Patrick AFB apart on work
Patrick AFB has far more jobs than workers
Patrick AFB has 1,240 jobs, 3.4 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,500 people are in town, 53% more than the 1,600 who live here. Day and night ↓
The jobs in Patrick AFB pay better than its residents’ jobs
90% of the jobs based in Patrick AFB pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 47% of the jobs Patrick AFB residents hold. 100% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Patrick AFB. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
47% 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; with 369 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Patrick AFB’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On family income, poverty and job access, Patrick AFB is better than 43% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Patrick AFB’s grade.
14% of Patrick AFB’s residents are college students, and off-campus students count in the Census poverty figures. Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (16% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 9.4%, against 15.4% for all residents. Unemployment (3.2%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Income is ranked as median family income ($84,063), since student households pull the household median down ($76,250).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for family income and poverty, Patrick AFB could be anywhere from D to A−.
How a workday changes Patrick AFB
On a workday 369 residents head out to work and none work right here.
About 2,500 people are in Patrick AFB on a workday afternoon, 53% more 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Patrick AFB
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Patrick AFB, 2013 → 2023: 1,047 → 1,240. 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 Patrick AFB’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Patrick AFB
About 47% 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.
Who travels to work in Patrick AFB, and from where
Where Patrick AFB clocks in
7% of workers
7% of workers
7% 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.
The trip to work from Patrick AFB: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Patrick AFB workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 662 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.
In Patrick AFB, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Patrick AFB is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 6.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 733 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 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 53% 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 Patrick AFB households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Patrick AFB’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Patrick AFB is 2,384th of 5,381 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 93 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 114 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 119 | Lake Mary Jane FL | 1,792 | $146K | 0.0% | 3.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,382 | Becket MA | 1,922 | $80K | 12.1% | 3.6% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,383 | North Harmony NY | 2,197 | $71K | 6.9% | 5.7% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,384 | Patrick AFB FL | 1,644 | $76K | 15.4% | 3.2% | 0% | C+ |
| 2,385 | Sullivan Gardens TN | 1,267 | $47K | 8.0% | 1.7% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,386 | Richmond MN | 1,515 | $71K | 10.1% | 1.6% | 4% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,381 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Patrick AFB, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Work in the towns next to Patrick AFB
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Patrick AFB workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patrick AFB | – | C+ | B+ | 19 min | $76,250 |
| South Patrick Shores | under 2% | A | A | 22 min | $85,660 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Patrick AFB’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.
- Students. 14% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Patrick AFB: questions
What is the median household income in Patrick AFB?
$76,250 (±$26,404) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Patrick AFB?
15.4% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 9.4%. Florida: 12.6%.
How long is the commute from Patrick AFB?
19 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Patrick AFB work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Melbourne (7%, 9 mi), Palm Bay (7%, 20 mi), Orlando (7%, 46 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Patrick AFB walkable?
Patrick AFB is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Patrick AFB without a car?
0% 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 Patrick AFB, from the people who make the trip.
More of Patrick AFB
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.