Villas draws 13,831 commuters a day, with 2.8 jobs for every working resident
Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 6.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 4.1 in Fort Myers. 14,266 jobs are based in Villas, and 5,124 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Villas is better than 54% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns (A).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Villas, in brief
Villas is where the jobs are
Villas has 14,266 jobs, 2.8 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 23,000 people are in town, 67% more than the 14,000 who live here. Day and night ↓
Villas has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Villas went from 9,680 in 2013 to 14,266 in 2023, +47%. 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Villas
Job access by car holds Villas’ grade up (ahead of 76% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($58,413, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Villas could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
Villas by day and by night
On a workday 4,689 residents head out to work and 435 work right here.
About 23,000 people are in Villas on a workday afternoon, 67% 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.
What Villas’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Villas, 2013 → 2023: 9,680 → 14,266. 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 Villas’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Villas’s workers come from
Where Villas clocks in
18% of workers
6% of workers
2% 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.
From Villas, about 24 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Villas workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 5,698 commuters (the 15% 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.
How many miles Villas commutes
About 26% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Villas
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 6,728 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 75% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 14% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 6.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 88% 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). 10.0% of Villas households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Villas’ commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 10,000 to 18,000, Villas ranks 1,198th of 2,059 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 110 | Lake Butler FL | 17,125 | $183K | 3.7% | 2.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 165 | Lake Mary FL | 16,789 | $109K | 3.5% | 2.6% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 199 | Key Biscayne FL | 14,815 | $182K | 5.5% | 2.8% | 12% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,196 | Los Osos CA | 14,166 | $109K | 8.1% | 5.1% | 11% | B− |
| 1,197 | Doctor Phillips FL | 12,984 | $104K | 12.0% | 10.3% | 4% | B− |
| 1,198 | Villas FL | 13,644 | $58K | 10.0% | 3.5% | 8% | B− |
| 1,199 | Rotonda FL | 10,352 | $75K | 5.7% | 2.9% | 6% | B− |
| 1,200 | Port Wentworth GA | 17,604 | $80K | 11.2% | 5.1% | 4% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,059 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Villas, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
How Villas compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Cypress Lake (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Villas workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Villas | – | B− | A | 24 min | $58,413 |
| Pine Manor | under 2% | C− | A+ | 23 min | $45,697 |
| Page Park | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Cypress Lake | 2% | B− | A− | 25 min | $62,590 |
Same-state neighbors only. Page Park: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Villas’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 Villas: questions
What is the median household income in Villas?
$58,413 (±$4,298) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Villas?
10.0%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Villas?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Villas work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fort Myers (18%, 5 mi), Cape Coral (6%, 11 mi), Bonita Springs (2%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Villas walkable?
Villas is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 12.6 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Villas without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. 14% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Villas, from the people who make the trip.
More of Villas
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.