Households in Verandah have higher incomes than those in 88% of U.S. towns
59% of workers work from home (Florida 16%). Below the poverty line: 3.4% of residents; Florida has 12.6%. Verandah grades A for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Verandah: the gist
Home offices are common in Verandah
59% of Verandah workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
38% 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 ↓
Verandah’s workforce skews older
45% of Verandah’s working residents are 55 or older. That’s about two in five. The jobs ↓
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; with 512 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Verandah’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Verandah is better than 90% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input; job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 57% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (3.8%) is left out: Verandah’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Verandah could be anywhere from A− to A.
Each way, about 31 minutes from Verandah
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Verandah workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 217 commuters (the 59% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Verandah
About 38% 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.
What Verandah’s employers do
477 jobs are based in Verandah.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Verandah, 2013 → 2023: 322 → 477. 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 Verandah’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Verandah, and who commutes in
On a workday 483 residents head out to work, 29 work right here, and 448 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.93 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
15% of working residents work in Fort Myers
Where Verandah clocks in
15% 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.
For most of Verandah, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Verandah is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 531 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% 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). 3.2% of Verandah households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Verandah’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Verandah is 346th among 5,921 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 108 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 135 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 142 | Lake Mary Jane FL | 1,792 | $146K | 0.0% | 3.1% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 344 | Lake Sherwood CA | 1,633 | $234K | 3.2% | 5.3% | 2% | A |
| 345 | Rye Township PA | 2,284 | $102K | 4.5% | 2.2% | 1% | A |
| 346 | Verandah FL | 1,900 | $121K | 3.4% | 3.8% | 6% | A |
| 347 | Twin Grove IL | 1,458 | $116K | 4.2% | 0.0% | 2% | A |
| 348 | Etna OH | 1,440 | $114K | 7.4% | 0.0% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,921 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Verandah, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Work in the towns next to Verandah
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Verandah workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verandah | – | A | C+ | 31 min | $120,962 |
| Buckingham | under 2% | A− | C− | 30 min | $112,568 |
| Fort Myers Shores | under 2% | C | A− | 29 min | $72,955 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Verandah’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 Verandah: questions
What is the median household income in Verandah?
$120,962 (±$27,185) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Verandah?
3.4%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Verandah?
31 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 59% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Verandah work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Myers (15%, 8 mi), Lehigh Acres (4%, 9 mi), Cape Coral (4%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Verandah walkable?
Verandah is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 8.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Verandah without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Verandah, from the people who make the trip.
More of Verandah
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.