Avero House · Photo: Kiran891 · CC BY-SA 4.0Vilano Beach has higher household incomes than 88% of U.S. towns
For 28% of workers, the job is at home, next to 16% for Florida as a whole. Below the poverty line: 5.4% of residents, where Florida as a whole has 12.6%. Jobs and income earn Vilano Beach A−; getting around on foot earns it B+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Vilano Beach, in brief
Home offices are common in Vilano Beach
28% of Vilano Beach workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Time on the road ↓
Vilano Beach and Jacksonville trade workers both ways
Jacksonville is the top workplace for Vilano Beach residents (30%) and also where the most people who work in Vilano Beach come from (13% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Vilano Beach
61% of Vilano Beach residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 37% of the jobs based in Vilano Beach pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 94% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Vilano Beach’s workforce skews older
42% of Vilano Beach’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.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Vilano Beach
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Vilano Beach is better than 77% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Vilano Beach’s grade up ($120,750, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 37% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Vilano Beach could be anywhere from C+ to A.
The daily trip from Vilano Beach: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Vilano Beach workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 779 commuters (the 28% 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.
30% of working residents work in Jacksonville
Where Vilano Beach clocks in
30% of workers
14% 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.
What work there is in Vilano Beach: 712 jobs
712 jobs are based in Vilano Beach.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Vilano Beach, 2013 → 2023: 583 → 712. 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 Vilano Beach’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Vilano Beach on a workday afternoon
On a workday 960 residents head out to work, 65 work right here, and 647 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Vilano Beach on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.69 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.
How far it is to work from Vilano Beach
About 21% 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.
For most of Vilano Beach, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Vilano Beach is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Vilano Beach 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 1,081 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 0.8 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 55% 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). 0.5% of Vilano Beach households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Vilano Beach’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Vilano Beach ranks: 937th of 5,641 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 3,000
| # | 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 97 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 99 | Pelican Marsh FL | 2,617 | $143K | 2.7% | 1.5% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 128 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 935 | Hardwick Township NJ | 1,635 | $125K | 5.3% | 7.8% | 2% | A− |
| 936 | Centre Township PA | 2,560 | $90K | 3.1% | 2.8% | 3% | A− |
| 937 | Vilano Beach FL | 2,188 | $121K | 5.4% | 3.1% | 6% | A− |
| 938 | Frenchtown NJ | 1,500 | $98K | 8.7% | 6.8% | 4% | A− |
| 939 | Moscow PA | 1,996 | $82K | 4.9% | 4.4% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,641 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Vilano Beach, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
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 Vilano Beach: questions
What is the median household income in Vilano Beach?
$120,750 (±$41,947) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Vilano Beach?
5.4%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Vilano Beach?
27 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 28% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Vilano Beach work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jacksonville (30%, 35 mi), St. Augustine (14%, 2 mi), Palm Valley (3%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Vilano Beach walkable?
Vilano Beach is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 8.1 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Vilano Beach without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Vilano Beach, from the people who make the trip.
More of Vilano Beach
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.