Viera East’s household incomes are higher than in 71% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 3.5% of residents, against 12.6% across Florida. Viera East grades B+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Only 2% stay in Viera East for work; outside it, Melbourne is the main destination (13%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Viera East and work: the main findings
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Viera East
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Viera East is better than 75% of U.S. towns, #136 of 638 in Florida. The poverty rate holds Viera East’s grade up; unemployment pulls it down (4.6%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Viera East could be anywhere from B to A.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Viera East
3,400 jobs are based in Viera East.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Viera East, 2014 → 2024: 2,604 → 3,400. 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 Viera East’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Viera East
On a workday 4,370 residents head out to work, 105 work right here, and 3,295 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 (0.76 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Viera East’s residents
Where Viera East clocks in
13% of workers
6% 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.
Time on the road from Viera East: 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 Viera East workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,953 commuters (the 19% 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.
Half of Viera East commutes less than 19 miles
About 27% 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.
Driving is how Viera East gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Viera East is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns, #421 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.7% 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 4,879 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 64% 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 1.5 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 64% 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). 4.4% of Viera East households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Viera East’s commuters take a bus or train.
Viera East places 878th of 2,354 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 9,000 to 17,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 185 | Lake Mary FL | 16,789 | $109K | 3.5% | 2.6% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 227 | Key Biscayne FL | 14,815 | $182K | 5.5% | 2.8% | 11% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 288 | Asbury Lake FL | 14,458 | $101K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 876 | Tittabawassee Township MI | 11,007 | $107K | 5.6% | 4.3% | 9% | B+ |
| 877 | Aston Township PA | 16,760 | $99K | 6.0% | 6.2% | 8% | B+ |
| 878 | Viera East FL | 12,570 | $92K | 3.5% | 4.6% | 2% | B+ |
| 879 | Lake Stickney WA | 15,890 | $94K | 10.9% | 3.6% | 2% | B+ |
| 880 | Sleepy Hollow NY | 11,474 | $104K | 8.7% | 5.5% | 6% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,354 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 28% | 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 Viera East, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
12% of Viera East works in a town next door
The biggest share goes to Rockledge (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Viera East workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Viera East | – | B+ | B− | 25 min | $92,467 |
| Rockledge | 8% | B | B | 23 min | $84,255 |
| Viera West | 4% | A | C | 28 min | $109,170 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Viera East’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 Viera East: questions
What is the median household income in Viera East?
$92,467 (±$13,769) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Viera East?
3.5%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Viera East?
25 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Viera East work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Melbourne (13%, 11 mi), Rockledge (8%, 4 mi), Palm Bay (6%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Viera East walkable?
Viera East is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 9.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Viera East without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Viera East, from the people who make the trip.
More of Viera East
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.