Port Salerno has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Employers in Port Salerno report 1,713 jobs for 4,264 working residents. The two grades for Port Salerno are C+ for jobs and income and B for walkability. 8% of workers work from home; Florida has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Port Salerno: the gist
The four measures behind Port Salerno’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Port Salerno is better than 45% of U.S. towns, #383 of 638 in Florida. The poverty rate holds Port Salerno’s grade up (7.1%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (6.5%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Port Salerno could be anywhere from C to B+.
Half of Port Salerno commutes less than 18 miles
About 30% 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.
In and out of Port Salerno on a workday
On a workday 4,125 residents head out to work, 139 work right here, and 1,574 people come in from elsewhere.
About 8,600 people are in Port Salerno on a workday afternoon, 23% 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 2024, primary jobs.
15% of working residents work in Stuart
Where Port Salerno clocks in
15% of workers
5% 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.
The kinds of work in Port Salerno
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Port Salerno, 2014 → 2024: 1,470 → 1,713. 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 Port Salerno’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 30 minutes each way, about the FL average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Port Salerno workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,977 commuters (the 7% 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 Port Salerno, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Port Salerno is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns, #406 of 638 in Florida. Both inputs place Port Salerno 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 5,380 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). 2.0% of Port Salerno households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Port Salerno’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 2,507 U.S. towns of 8,000 to 15,000, Port Salerno comes 1,628th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 235 | Key Biscayne FL | 14,815 | $182K | 5.5% | 2.8% | 11% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 301 | Asbury Lake FL | 14,458 | $101K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 322 | Westlake FL | 9,042 | $132K | 3.2% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,626 | St. Ann MO | 12,617 | $52K | 13.0% | 4.9% | 2% | B− |
| 1,627 | Brentwood PA | 9,597 | $69K | 19.1% | 5.0% | 4% | C+ |
| 1,628 | Port Salerno FL | 11,184 | $67K | 7.1% | 6.5% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,629 | Kingsburg CA | 13,249 | $77K | 10.8% | 7.3% | 15% | C+ |
| 1,630 | Thief River Falls MN | 8,799 | $71K | 12.2% | 2.7% | 70% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,507 | Roma TX | 11,543 | $25K | 37.1% | 12.4% | 19% | 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 Port Salerno, 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 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 Port Salerno: questions
What is the median household income in Port Salerno?
$67,436 (±$9,438) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Port Salerno?
7.1%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Port Salerno?
30 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Port Salerno work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Stuart (15%, 5 mi), Jupiter (5%, 16 mi), Port St. Lucie (4%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Port Salerno walkable?
Port Salerno is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Port Salerno without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Port Salerno, from the people who make the trip.
More of Port Salerno
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.