Menge-Hansen Marine Ways · Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Tice works elsewhere
Household incomes here are lower than in 83% of U.S. towns. There are 780 jobs in Tice; 1,565 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Tice are B− for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Tice stands out on work
Tice has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Tice went from 404 in 2013 to 780 in 2023, +93%. The jobs ↓
Tice and Fort Myers trade workers both ways
Fort Myers is the top workplace for Tice residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Tice come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A big share show a job far from home
34% 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 ↓
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.
The figures behind Tice’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Tice is better than 46% of U.S. towns, #371 of 638 in Florida. Unemployment holds Tice’s grade up (2.1%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (19.4%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Tice could be anywhere from C to B+.
Tice makes things: 28% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tice, 2013 → 2023: 404 → 780. 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 Tice’s own residents hold wherever they work.
17% of working residents work in Fort Myers
Where Tice clocks in
17% of workers
5% 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 commute from Tice, by distance
About 34% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Tice
On a workday 1,527 residents head out to work, 38 work right here, and 742 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,000 people are in Tice on a workday afternoon, 16% 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.
Each way, about 29 minutes from Tice
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tice workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,157 commuters (the 10% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Tice
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Tice is more walkable than 84% of U.S. towns, #181 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 3.1% 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 2,394 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 22% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 4.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 80% 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). 20.6% of Tice households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Tice’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Tice ranks: 2,199th of 3,867 U.S. towns of 3,300 to 6,400
| # | 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 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Bay Hill FL | 4,512 | $128K | 0.7% | 1.5% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 82 | Geneva FL | 3,441 | $133K | 0.6% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 84 | Windermere FL | 3,344 | $178K | 1.3% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,197 | Stowe VT | 5,325 | $94K | 9.9% | 4.6% | 49% | B− |
| 2,198 | Fishhook AK | 5,819 | $111K | 9.2% | 4.5% | — | B− |
| 2,199 | Tice FL | 4,758 | $54K | 19.4% | 2.1% | 2% | B− |
| 2,200 | Buena NJ | 4,529 | $80K | 8.7% | 11.4% | 6% | B− |
| 2,201 | Hicksville OH | 3,427 | $63K | 4.3% | 6.4% | 29% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,867 | 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 Tice, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Tice and its neighbors: 17% work next door
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Tice workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tice | – | B− | A− | 29 min | $53,505 |
| Fort Myers | 17% | C+ | A− | 25 min | $63,732 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Fort Myers. Darker towns draw more of Tice’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 Tice: questions
What is the median household income in Tice?
$53,505 (±$8,486) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tice?
19.4%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tice?
29 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tice work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Myers (17%, 4 mi), Cape Coral (5%, 11 mi), Lehigh Acres (3%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tice walkable?
Tice is more walkable than 84% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 13.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tice without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 21% of households have no car. 22% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tice, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tice
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.