Rainbow Springs has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs and income earn Rainbow Springs C; getting around on foot earns it C. Rainbow Springs has 241 jobs; 1,538 of its residents have a job. Home is the office for 26% of workers, where Florida as a whole has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Rainbow Springs stands out on work
Rainbow Springs is a place people come home to
There are 241 jobs based in Rainbow Springs, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
A lot of Rainbow Springs works from home
26% of Rainbow Springs workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
38% 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 ↓
Rainbow Springs workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 28 across Florida. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. 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.
Inside Rainbow Springs’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Rainbow Springs is better than 30% of U.S. towns, #508 of 638 in Florida. Unemployment holds Rainbow Springs’ grade up (3.5%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 7% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Rainbow Springs could be anywhere from D to B.
Rainbow Springs on a workday afternoon
On a workday 1,502 residents head out to work, 36 work right here, and 205 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,800 people are in Rainbow Springs on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
From Rainbow Springs, about 33 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rainbow Springs workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,148 commuters (the 26% 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 far it is to work from Rainbow Springs
About 38% 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.
22% of working residents work in Ocala
Where Rainbow Springs clocks in
22% of workers
4% of workers
3% 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 Rainbow Springs’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rainbow Springs, 2013 → 2023: 171 → 241. 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 Rainbow Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Most trips from Rainbow Springs start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Rainbow Springs is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns, #566 of 638 in Florida. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 4.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,541 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 1.0% of Rainbow Springs households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Rainbow Springs’ commuters take a bus or train.
Rainbow Springs next to U.S. towns of 4,300 to 8,200: 2,465th of 3,307 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 44 | Southwest Ranches FL | 7,773 | $161K | 3.8% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Bay Hill FL | 4,512 | $128K | 0.7% | 1.5% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 172 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,463 | Latimer MS | 6,756 | $70K | 16.1% | 6.4% | 2% | C |
| 2,464 | El Rio CA | 6,368 | $73K | 20.1% | 10.4% | 3% | C |
| 2,465 | Rainbow Springs FL | 6,082 | $57K | 9.3% | 3.5% | 2% | C |
| 2,466 | Canutillo TX | 5,962 | $41K | 34.0% | 3.5% | 2% | C |
| 2,467 | Buhl ID | 4,801 | $56K | 7.6% | 5.4% | 15% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,307 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Rainbow Springs, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Rainbow Springs and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Dunnellon (3%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Rainbow Springs workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow Springs | – | C | C | 33 min | $57,161 |
| Dunnellon | 3% | D | B+ | 34 min | $40,545 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Rainbow Springs’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.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Rainbow Springs: questions
What is the median household income in Rainbow Springs?
$57,161 (±$8,424) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rainbow Springs?
9.3%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rainbow Springs?
33 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 26% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rainbow Springs work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ocala (22%, 18 mi), Gainesville (4%, 41 mi), Dunnellon (3%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Rainbow Springs walkable?
Rainbow Springs is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.6 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rainbow Springs without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rainbow Springs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rainbow Springs
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.