Most of Pine Lakes commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Pine Lakes has 30 jobs, and 374 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Pine Lakes C+; getting around on foot earns it D−. Hardly any work in Pine Lakes; the top destination outside it is DeLand (10%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Pine Lakes in brief
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Pine Lakes
On income, poverty and job access, Pine Lakes is better than 40% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Pine Lakes’ grade up (5.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (20.2%) is left out: Pine Lakes’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, Pine Lakes could be anywhere from D to B+.
How a workday changes Pine Lakes
On a workday 372 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 28 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Pine Lakes on a workday afternoon, 24% fewer 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.
Where Pine Lakes’ working residents head each day
Where Pine Lakes clocks in
10% of workers
9% of workers
4% 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 40% of work in Pine Lakes
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pine Lakes, 2013 → 2023: 35 → 30. 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 Pine Lakes’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Pine Lakes’ commute takes about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pine Lakes workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 438 commuters (the 11% 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 Pine Lakes commutes
About 17% 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.
Most trips from Pine Lakes start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pine Lakes is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Pine Lakes 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 494 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 8.9% of Pine Lakes households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pine Lakes’ commuters take a bus or train.
Pine Lakes next to U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900: 2,653rd of 5,877 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Fisher Island FL | 1,026 | $250K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 111 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 117 | Lake Mary Jane FL | 1,792 | $146K | 0.0% | 3.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,651 | Wayne Township OH | 1,527 | $65K | 8.2% | 4.4% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,652 | Gulich Township PA | 1,188 | $82K | 9.8% | 3.3% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,653 | Pine Lakes FL | 1,437 | $78K | 5.9% | 20.2% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,654 | Hallsville MO | 1,742 | $71K | 11.9% | 3.4% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,655 | Central Square NY | 1,852 | $70K | 15.1% | 4.8% | 7% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Pine Lakes, 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 Pine Lakes: questions
What is the median household income in Pine Lakes?
$77,785 (±$44,196) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pine Lakes?
5.9%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pine Lakes?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pine Lakes work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are DeLand (10%, 10 mi), Orlando (9%, 33 mi), Apopka (4%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pine Lakes walkable?
Pine Lakes is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.9 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pine Lakes without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pine Lakes, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pine Lakes
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.