With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Venice Gardens works elsewhere
Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 1.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 31.0 in Miami. 769 jobs are based in Venice Gardens, and 1,478 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Venice Gardens are C+ for jobs and income and A for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Venice Gardens, in a few figures
Venice Gardens has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Venice Gardens went from 421 in 2014 to 769 in 2024, +83%. The jobs ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Venice Gardens
57% of Venice Gardens residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 34% of the jobs based in Venice Gardens pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 98% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Venice Gardens are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 28 across Florida. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Florida 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Jobs & income in Venice Gardens: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Venice Gardens is better than 44% of U.S. towns, #393 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Venice Gardens’ grade up (ahead of 59% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (5.7%, U.S. 5.2%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Venice Gardens could be anywhere from C− to A.
Jobs in Venice Gardens: what the 769 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Venice Gardens, 2014 → 2024: 421 → 769. 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 Venice Gardens’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Venice Gardens takes about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Venice Gardens workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,387 commuters (the 8% 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.
How a workday changes Venice Gardens
On a workday 1,449 residents head out to work, 29 work right here, and 740 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,600 people are in Venice Gardens on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
15% of working residents work in Venice
Where Venice Gardens clocks in
15% of workers
9% 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.
Half of Venice Gardens commutes less than 18 miles
About 26% 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.
In Venice Gardens, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Venice Gardens is more walkable than 87% of U.S. towns, #137 of 638 in Florida. Both inputs place Venice Gardens near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,511 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 50% 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 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). 2.7% of Venice Gardens households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Venice Gardens’ commuters take a bus or train.
Venice Gardens places 2,532nd of 4,453 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 2,300 to 4,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 73 | Geneva FL | 3,441 | $133K | 0.6% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 75 | Windermere FL | 3,344 | $178K | 1.3% | 2.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 107 | Pelican Marsh FL | 2,617 | $143K | 2.7% | 1.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,530 | Greenfield Township PA | 3,688 | $61K | 14.3% | 2.3% | 22% | C+ |
| 2,531 | Fallowfield Township PA | 4,041 | $67K | 9.1% | 6.2% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,532 | Venice Gardens FL | 3,280 | $71K | 9.8% | 5.7% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,533 | North River Shores FL | 3,633 | $76K | 13.2% | 4.6% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,534 | Neuse Forest NC | 2,671 | $85K | 4.6% | 6.5% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,453 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Venice Gardens, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Next door to Venice Gardens
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Venice Gardens workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venice Gardens | – | C+ | A | 21 min | $70,811 |
| South Venice | under 2% | B− | B | 23 min | $77,097 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Venice Gardens’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 Venice Gardens: questions
What is the median household income in Venice Gardens?
$70,811 (±$17,838) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Venice Gardens?
9.8%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Venice Gardens?
21 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Venice Gardens work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Venice (15%, 3 mi), Sarasota (9%, 20 mi), South Sarasota (3%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Venice Gardens walkable?
Venice Gardens is more walkable than 87% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 9.4 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Venice Gardens without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 42% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Venice Gardens, from the people who make the trip.
More of Venice Gardens
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.