Households in Vineyards have higher incomes than those in 92% of U.S. towns
Only 5% work in Vineyards itself; outside it, Naples draws the most (10%, 7 miles). Poverty touches 2.5% of residents, against 12.6% across Florida. Vineyards grades A+ for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Vineyards, in brief
Nearly all the work in Vineyards is services
98% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 2% are in factories, building or farms. The jobs ↓
Vineyards is where the jobs are
Vineyards has 2,958 jobs, 2.1 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 5,400 people are in town, 40% more than the 3,800 who live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Vineyards are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 28 across Florida. That’s about 69 hours a year less on the road than the typical Florida worker. Time on the road ↓
Vineyards’ workforce skews older
40% of Vineyards’ working residents are 55 or older. That’s about two in five. The jobs ↓
Vineyards has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Vineyards went from 2,021 in 2013 to 2,958 in 2023, +46%. 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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Vineyards
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Vineyards is better than 97% of U.S. towns, #7 of 638 in Florida. The poverty rate is its strongest input; job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 71% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Vineyards could be anywhere from A− to A+.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
2,958 jobs are based in Vineyards.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Vineyards, 2013 → 2023: 2,021 → 2,958. 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 Vineyards’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Vineyards
On a workday 1,334 residents head out to work, 75 work right here, and 2,883 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,400 people are in Vineyards on a workday afternoon, 40% more than live here.
2.1 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Getting to work from Vineyards takes about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Vineyards workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 969 commuters (the 20% 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.
Commuting in to Vineyards: where workers come from
Where Vineyards clocks in
10% of workers
3% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Vineyards
About 31% 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.
In Vineyards, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Vineyards is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns, #383 of 638 in Florida. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 6.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,215 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 0.0% of Vineyards households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Vineyards’ commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 2,700 to 5,200, Vineyards ranks 131st of 4,264 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 43 | Bay Hill FL | 4,512 | $128K | 0.7% | 1.5% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 76 | Geneva FL | 3,441 | $133K | 0.6% | 0.4% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 78 | Windermere FL | 3,344 | $178K | 1.3% | 2.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 129 | Somerford Township OH | 3,078 | $117K | 3.5% | 1.0% | 3% | A+ |
| 130 | Empire WI | 2,790 | $125K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 2% | A+ |
| 131 | Vineyards FL | 3,849 | $131K | 2.5% | 1.6% | 5% | A+ |
| 132 | Georgetown IN | 3,855 | $113K | 2.1% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| 133 | Weisenberg Township PA | 5,102 | $134K | 2.4% | 2.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,264 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Vineyards, 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 Vineyards: questions
What is the median household income in Vineyards?
$131,118 (±$31,777) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Vineyards?
2.5%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Vineyards?
19 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Vineyards work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Naples (10%, 7 mi), Bonita Springs (3%, 9 mi), Pelican Marsh (2%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Vineyards walkable?
Vineyards is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Vineyards 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 Vineyards, from the people who make the trip.
More of Vineyards
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.