Almost no one in Vero Lake Estates’s labor force is looking for work
Only 2% stay in Vero Lake Estates for work; outside it, Vero Beach is the main destination (13%, 11 miles). The two grades for Vero Lake Estates are A− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Home is the office for 9% of workers, against 16% across Florida.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Vero Lake Estates apart on work
Where Vero Lake Estates’ Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Vero Lake Estates is better than 80% of U.S. towns, #100 of 638 in Florida. Unemployment holds Vero Lake Estates’ grade up (hardly any, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 43% of U.S. towns). 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, Vero Lake Estates could be anywhere from B to A.
Vero Lake Estates quiets down on a workday
On a workday 3,097 residents head out to work, 70 work right here, and 174 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,600 people are in Vero Lake Estates on a workday afternoon, 45% fewer than live here.
0.08 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 towns that employ Vero Lake Estates’ residents
Where Vero Lake Estates clocks in
13% of workers
6% 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.
39% of the jobs in Vero Lake Estates make or build things
244 jobs are based in Vero Lake Estates.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Vero Lake Estates, 2013 → 2023: 161 → 244. 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 Vero Lake Estates’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Vero Lake Estates’ commute takes about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Vero Lake Estates workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,937 commuters (the 9% 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 Vero Lake Estates
About 29% 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 Vero Lake Estates start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Vero Lake Estates is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns, #606 of 638 in Florida. 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 3,220 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.3% of Vero Lake Estates households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Vero Lake Estates’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Vero Lake Estates is 768th of 3,283 U.S. towns of 4,600 to 8,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Southwest Ranches FL | 7,773 | $161K | 3.8% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 168 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 328 | Orangetree FL | 6,084 | $113K | 3.8% | 0.6% | 3% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 766 | Mason MI | 8,264 | $79K | 5.3% | 2.9% | 11% | A− |
| 767 | Robeson Township PA | 7,805 | $93K | 8.1% | 2.6% | 6% | A− |
| 768 | Vero Lake Estates FL | 6,559 | $83K | 5.3% | 0.0% | 2% | A− |
| 769 | Lake Goodwin WA | 5,536 | $105K | 3.5% | 2.6% | <1% | A− |
| 770 | Kenilworth NJ | 8,602 | $119K | 6.4% | 6.3% | 7% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,283 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Vero Lake Estates, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Around Vero Lake Estates: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Vero Lake Estates workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vero Lake Estates | – | A− | C− | 25 min | $83,199 |
| Fellsmere | 2% | D | A− | 32 min | $55,893 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Fellsmere. Darker towns draw more of Vero Lake Estates’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 Vero Lake Estates: questions
What is the median household income in Vero Lake Estates?
$83,199 (±$22,506) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Vero Lake Estates?
5.3%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Vero Lake Estates?
25 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Vero Lake Estates work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Vero Beach (13%, 11 mi), Sebastian (6%, 4 mi), Fort Pierce (4%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Vero Lake Estates walkable?
Vero Lake Estates is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Vero Lake Estates without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Vero Lake Estates, from the people who make the trip.
More of Vero Lake Estates
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.