Halstead and Emily Lindsley House · Photo: Pietro · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Rotonda commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
24% of workers work from home (Florida 16%). Employers in Rotonda report 567 jobs, against 3,039 working residents. The two grades for Rotonda are B− for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Rotonda
Many jobs in Rotonda pay little
45% of the jobs based in Rotonda pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
No single place dominates Rotonda’s commute
The biggest draw, Port Charlotte, gets only 7% of working residents, and 65% work outside the top ten towns entirely. Rotonda residents fan out across the region. The commute map ↓
Rotonda’s workforce skews older
44% of Rotonda’s working residents are 55 or older. That’s about two in five. The jobs ↓
Rotonda has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Rotonda went from 348 in 2013 to 567 in 2023, +63%. The jobs ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Rotonda
50% of Rotonda residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 31% of the jobs based in Rotonda pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 94% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Jobs & income in Rotonda: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Rotonda is better than 54% of U.S. towns, #308 of 638 in Florida. The poverty rate holds Rotonda’s grade up (5.7%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 14% of U.S. towns). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Rotonda could be anywhere from C to A−.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Rotonda
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rotonda, 2013 → 2023: 348 → 567. 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 Rotonda’s own residents hold wherever they work.
7% of working residents work in Port Charlotte
Where Rotonda clocks in
7% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Rotonda
On a workday 2,861 residents head out to work, 178 work right here, and 389 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,900 people are in Rotonda 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.
The daily trip from Rotonda: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rotonda workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,903 commuters (the 24% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Rotonda
About 32% 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.
Rotonda is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Rotonda is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns, #469 of 638 in Florida. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 5.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,490 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). 5.3% of Rotonda households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Rotonda’s commuters take a bus or train.
Rotonda places 1,599th of 2,878 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 7,000 to 14,000
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Southwest Ranches FL | 7,773 | $161K | 3.8% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 174 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 343 | Westlake FL | 9,042 | $132K | 3.2% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,597 | Doctor Phillips FL | 12,984 | $104K | 12.0% | 10.3% | 4% | B− |
| 1,598 | Villas FL | 13,644 | $58K | 10.0% | 3.5% | 8% | B− |
| 1,599 | Rotonda FL | 10,352 | $75K | 5.7% | 2.9% | 6% | B− |
| 1,600 | Lansdowne MD | 7,876 | $59K | 21.7% | 2.4% | 3% | B− |
| 1,601 | Keyport NJ | 7,235 | $82K | 9.1% | 12.8% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,878 | 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 Rotonda, 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 Rotonda: questions
What is the median household income in Rotonda?
$74,573 (±$16,238) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rotonda?
5.7%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rotonda?
27 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 24% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rotonda work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Port Charlotte (7%, 12 mi), Englewood (7%, 7 mi), Venice (3%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Rotonda walkable?
Rotonda is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rotonda without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rotonda, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rotonda
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.