Photo: LittleT889 · CC BY-SA 4.0Pembroke Pines’ household incomes are higher than in 62% of U.S. towns
About one in ten work in Pembroke Pines; the top destination outside it is Miami (10%, 18 miles). Poverty touches 10.0% of residents; Florida has 12.6%. Jobs and income earn Pembroke Pines B+; getting around on foot earns it B.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How Pembroke Pines earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Pembroke Pines is better than 71% of U.S. towns, #162 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Pembroke Pines’ grade up (ahead of 93% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down. It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Pembroke Pines could be anywhere from B to A−.
The workday shuffle in and out of Pembroke Pines
On a workday 68,537 residents head out to work, 7,257 work right here, and 42,646 people come in from elsewhere.
About 151,000 people are in Pembroke Pines on a workday afternoon, 15% fewer than live here.
0.66 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 2024, primary jobs.
Out of Pembroke Pines to work: where people go
Where Pembroke Pines clocks in
10% 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.
What Pembroke Pines’ employers do
49,903 jobs are based in Pembroke Pines.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pembroke Pines, 2014 → 2024: 38,961 → 49,903. 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 Pembroke Pines’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 30 minutes each way, longer than most of Florida
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pembroke Pines workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 72,835 commuters (the 16% 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.
The commute from Pembroke Pines, by distance
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.
Most trips from Pembroke Pines start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pembroke Pines is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns, #352 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.3% 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 86,209 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 57% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 4% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 3.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 79% 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). 6.6% of Pembroke Pines households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Pembroke Pines’ commuters take a bus or train.
These are town averages; neighborhoods differ.
Pembroke Pines is 48th of 170 U.S. towns of 124,000 to 239,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pearland TX | 129,930 | $119K | 4.1% | 3.3% | 9% | A+ |
| 2 | North Hempstead NY | 238,982 | $158K | 4.5% | 4.1% | 20% | A |
| 3 | Frisco TX | 236,955 | $150K | 3.6% | 4.6% | 14% | A |
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| 39 | Miramar FL | 142,570 | $89K | 8.5% | 4.5% | 6% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 41 | Coral Springs FL | 138,783 | $94K | 7.6% | 5.1% | 13% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Lakewood CO | 156,927 | $90K | 9.2% | 4.5% | 18% | B+ |
| 47 | Sioux Falls SD | 213,748 | $76K | 9.6% | 2.5% | 80% | B+ |
| 48 | Pembroke Pines FL | 176,714 | $85K | 10.0% | 4.1% | 10% | B+ |
| 49 | Charleston SC | 159,423 | $92K | 12.3% | 3.4% | 41% | B+ |
| 50 | Hayward CA | 157,113 | $113K | 9.6% | 6.3% | 14% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 80 | Cape Coral FL | 236,264 | $78K | 10.7% | 3.8% | 22% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 170 | Macon-Bibb County GA | 157,556 | $51K | 24.7% | 8.1% | 52% | 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 Pembroke Pines, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
13% of Pembroke Pines works in a town next door
The biggest share goes to Hollywood (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Pembroke Pines workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pembroke Pines | – | B+ | B | 30 min | $85,104 |
| Southwest Ranches | under 3% | A+ | B− | 28 min | $161,051 |
| Miramar | 4% | B+ | A− | 31 min | $89,125 |
| Hollywood | 5% | C+ | A | 29 min | $67,203 |
| Cooper City | under 3% | A | B | 28 min | $132,319 |
| Davie | 4% | B | A− | 29 min | $87,250 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Pembroke Pines’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 Pembroke Pines: questions
What is the median household income in Pembroke Pines?
$85,104 (±$5,341) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pembroke Pines?
10.0%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pembroke Pines?
30 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pembroke Pines work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Miami (10%, 18 mi), Fort Lauderdale (7%, 15 mi), Sunrise (6%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Pembroke Pines walkable?
Pembroke Pines is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 10.9 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pembroke Pines without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 4% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pembroke Pines, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pembroke Pines
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.