Photo: Yinzer1 · CC BY-SA 4.0Venice draws 13,280 commuters a day, with 2.0 jobs for every working resident
Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 2.4 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 31.0 in Miami. There are 14,497 jobs in Venice for 7,324 working residents. The two grades for Venice 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
Venice at work: what stands out
Venice is where the jobs are
Venice has 14,497 jobs, 2.0 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
No single place dominates Venice’s commute
The biggest draw, Sarasota, gets only 8% of working residents, and 59% work outside the top ten towns entirely. Venice residents fan out across the region. The commute map ↓
Venice’s workforce skews older
42% of Venice’s working residents are 55 or older. That’s about two in five. The jobs ↓
A lot of Venice works from home
25% of Venice workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
35% 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.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Venice
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Venice is better than 52% of U.S. towns, #320 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Venice’s grade up (ahead of 58% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (4.8%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Venice could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
The workday shuffle in and out of Venice
On a workday 6,107 residents head out to work and 1,217 work right here.
About 38,000 people are in Venice on a workday afternoon, 24% more 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.
Where Venice’s workers come from
Where Venice clocks in
8% 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.
33% of the jobs in Venice make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Venice, 2013 → 2023: 12,371 → 14,497. 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 Venice’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 26 minutes each way, about the FL average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Venice workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 5,630 commuters (the 25% 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.
Where in the region Venice works
About 35% 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.
Venice is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Venice is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns, #252 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.8% 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 7,548 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 52% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 3% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 2.4 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 72% 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). 6.0% of Venice households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Venice’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 1,415 U.S. towns of 21,000 to 41,000, Venice comes 932nd on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 90 | Parkland FL | 39,186 | $199K | 4.3% | 3.1% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 95 | Jacksonville Beach FL | 23,615 | $121K | 4.8% | 1.8% | 14% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 107 | Palmetto Bay FL | 24,886 | $142K | 5.8% | 2.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 930 | Kalispell MT | 31,851 | $63K | 10.0% | 2.6% | 46% | B− |
| 931 | Suisun City CA | 29,454 | $95K | 8.4% | 8.4% | 3% | B− |
| 932 | Venice FL | 30,477 | $77K | 9.2% | 4.8% | 17% | B− |
| 933 | Easley SC | 27,319 | $66K | 13.9% | 3.2% | 10% | B− |
| 934 | Fredericksburg VA | 30,393 | $86K | 13.2% | 5.1% | 21% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,415 | Barstow CA | 24,804 | $53K | 23.1% | 11.9% | 17% | 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, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
How Venice compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Laurel (1%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Venice’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 Venice: questions
What is the median household income in Venice?
$76,755 (±$6,068) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Venice?
9.2%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Venice?
26 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 25% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Venice work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sarasota (8%, 17 mi), South Sarasota (4%, 14 mi), Tampa (3%, 59 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Venice walkable?
Venice is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 10.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Venice without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 3% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Venice, from the people who make the trip.
More of Venice
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.