Blandford · Photo: Mikasb · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Tangerine commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
For jobs and income Tangerine is better than 81% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (B). There are 243 jobs in Tangerine; 1,629 of its residents have a job. 28% of workers have no commute at all, where Florida as a whole has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Tangerine, in a few figures
Tangerine is a place people come home to
There are 243 jobs based in Tangerine, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Tangerine has about 2,900 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Home offices are common in Tangerine
28% of Tangerine workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Time on the road ↓
Tangerine’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Tangerine is Orlando, 28 miles away as the crow flies. 18% of working residents (289) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Tangerine workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 36 minutes each way, against 28 across Florida. Over a year that’s about 276 hours of commuting, 61 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.
Why Tangerine gets the Jobs & income grade it does
All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Tangerine’s grade. It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Tangerine could be anywhere from B− to A+.
Tangerine by day and by night
On a workday 1,615 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 229 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,900 people are in Tangerine on a workday afternoon, 32% 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 Tangerine, about 36 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tangerine workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,628 commuters (the 28% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Tangerine
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.
18% of working residents work in Orlando
Where Tangerine clocks in
18% of workers
6% 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.
49% of the jobs in Tangerine make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tangerine, 2013 → 2023: 88 → 243. 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 Tangerine’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute in Tangerine is mostly behind the wheel
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.6% across Florida.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,268 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 42% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 42% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.9 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 56% 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). 0.7% of Tangerine households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Tangerine’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 3,000 to 5,800, Tangerine ranks 771st of 4,039 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 52 | Bay Hill FL | 4,512 | $128K | 0.7% | 1.5% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 86 | Geneva FL | 3,441 | $133K | 0.6% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 88 | Windermere FL | 3,344 | $178K | 1.3% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 769 | Hollis ME | 5,003 | $96K | 5.7% | 1.8% | 6% | A− |
| 770 | Hinesburg VT | 4,675 | $113K | 8.5% | 0.6% | 11% | A− |
| 771 | Tangerine FL | 4,326 | $106K | 6.5% | 3.2% | 1% | A− |
| 772 | Point Pleasant Beach NJ | 4,993 | $142K | 5.2% | 5.6% | 17% | A− |
| 773 | Ovilla TX | 4,808 | $131K | 5.9% | 6.2% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,039 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Tangerine, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Next door to Tangerine
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Tangerine’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 Tangerine: questions
What is the median household income in Tangerine?
$105,509 (±$16,295) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tangerine?
6.5%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tangerine?
36 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 28% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tangerine work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Orlando (18%, 28 mi), Apopka (6%, 8 mi), Mount Dora (4%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tangerine walkable?
Tangerine is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tangerine without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 42% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tangerine, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tangerine
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.