With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Sun City Center works elsewhere
29% of workers work from home (Florida 16%). 5,279 jobs are based in Sun City Center, against 10,948 working residents. For jobs and income Sun City Center is better than 70% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (C−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Sun City Center and work: the main findings
A lot of Sun City Center works from home
29% of Sun City Center workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Time on the road ↓
Sun City Center workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 28 across Florida. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 46 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 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
The figures behind Sun City Center’s Jobs & income grade
Unemployment holds Sun City Center’s grade up (2.2%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($73,528, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Sun City Center could be anywhere from B to A−.
Commuting from Sun City Center: about 34 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sun City Center workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6,761 commuters (the 29% 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.
Sun City Center by day and by night
On a workday 10,471 residents head out to work, 477 work right here, and 4,802 people come in from elsewhere.
About 28,000 people are in Sun City Center on a workday afternoon, 17% 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.
19% of working residents work in Tampa
Where Sun City Center clocks in
19% 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.
In Sun City Center, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sun City Center, 2014 → 2024: 4,637 → 5,279. 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 Sun City Center’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Sun City Center
About 25% 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.
For most of Sun City Center, work means a drive
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 9,513 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). 7.8% of Sun City Center households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Sun City Center’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Sun City Center ranks: 637th of 1,315 U.S. towns of 23,000 to 45,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| 2 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
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| 84 | Parkland FL | 39,186 | $199K | 4.3% | 3.1% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 88 | Jacksonville Beach FL | 23,615 | $121K | 4.8% | 1.8% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 100 | Palmetto Bay FL | 24,886 | $142K | 5.8% | 2.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 635 | Prattville AL | 40,582 | $81K | 10.7% | 1.8% | 19% | B+ |
| 636 | Suwanee GA | 23,034 | $103K | 10.1% | 5.2% | 6% | B+ |
| 637 | Sun City Center FL | 33,548 | $74K | 8.3% | 2.2% | 4% | B+ |
| 638 | Beverly Hills CA | 30,764 | $133K | 9.6% | 8.3% | 14% | B+ |
| 639 | West Melbourne FL | 31,285 | $93K | 7.3% | 4.5% | 7% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,315 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 25% | 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 Sun City Center, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Around Sun City Center: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Ruskin (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Sun City Center workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun City Center | – | B+ | C− | 34 min | $73,528 |
| Ruskin | 2% | B− | C+ | 36 min | $79,235 |
| Wimauma | under 2% | C | B+ | 38 min | $68,274 |
| Apollo Beach | under 2% | A− | B− | 35 min | $127,617 |
| Balm | under 2% | B+ | D | 37 min | $114,659 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Sun City Center’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 Sun City Center: questions
What is the median household income in Sun City Center?
$73,528 (±$2,590) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sun City Center?
8.3%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sun City Center?
34 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 29% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sun City Center work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tampa (19%, 19 mi), St. Petersburg (4%, 18 mi), East Lake-Orient Park (4%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Sun City Center walkable?
Sun City Center is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sun City Center without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sun City Center, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sun City Center
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.