Photo: Connor Williams · CC BY 2.0Household incomes in Titusville trail those of 64% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 11.3%; Florida has 12.6%. Titusville grades C for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. About one in five stay in Titusville for work; outside it, Palm Bay is the main destination (6%, 44 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Titusville in brief
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Titusville
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Titusville is better than 35% of U.S. towns, #456 of 638 in Florida. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Titusville’s grade.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Titusville could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Where Titusville goes to work
Where Titusville clocks in
6% of workers
4% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Titusville
On a workday 16,042 residents head out to work, 4,137 work right here, and 10,722 people come in from elsewhere.
About 44,000 people are in Titusville on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
0.74 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 kinds of work in Titusville
14,859 jobs are based in Titusville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Titusville, 2013 → 2023: 14,283 → 14,859. 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 Titusville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Titusville takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Titusville workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 18,620 commuters (the 12% 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.
Miles to work from Titusville
About 22% 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.
Most trips from Titusville start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Titusville is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns, #336 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.8% 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 21,073 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 53% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 10% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 61% 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). 5.2% of Titusville households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Titusville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Titusville places 729th of 887 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 35,000 to 67,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 2 | Upper Arlington OH | 35,893 | $155K | 3.3% | 2.0% | 7% | A+ |
| 3 | Oakton VA | 36,528 | $161K | 4.6% | 1.9% | 3% | A+ |
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| 38 | Parkland FL | 39,186 | $199K | 4.3% | 3.1% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 86 | Fruit Cove FL | 35,877 | $142K | 2.7% | 2.8% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 105 | Cooper City FL | 35,030 | $132K | 5.0% | 4.0% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 727 | Tupelo MS | 38,087 | $66K | 15.1% | 5.2% | 53% | C+ |
| 728 | Fitchburg MA | 42,136 | $73K | 15.6% | 6.7% | 17% | C |
| 729 | Titusville FL | 49,800 | $66K | 11.3% | 5.0% | 21% | C |
| 730 | North Fort Myers FL | 44,993 | $56K | 14.8% | 4.6% | 8% | C |
| 731 | Watsonville CA | 50,716 | $78K | 14.7% | 7.7% | 22% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 887 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | 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 Titusville, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Next door to Titusville
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Titusville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Titusville | – | C | B+ | 24 min | $66,192 |
| Mims | under 2% | C− | C | 24 min | $59,005 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Titusville’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 Titusville: questions
What is the median household income in Titusville?
$66,192 (±$5,283) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Titusville?
11.3%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Titusville?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Titusville work?
21% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Palm Bay (6%, 44 mi), Orlando (4%, 31 mi), Melbourne (4%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Titusville walkable?
Titusville is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 9.4 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Titusville without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 10% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Titusville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Titusville
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.