Photo: DanTD · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Weeki Wachee Gardens works elsewhere
44% of workers work from home, next to 16% for Florida as a whole. Employers in Weeki Wachee Gardens report 59 jobs; 377 of its residents have a job. Weeki Wachee Gardens grades D for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Weeki Wachee Gardens and work: the main findings
A lot of Weeki Wachee Gardens works from home
44% of Weeki Wachee Gardens workers work from home, against 16% across Florida. Time on the road ↓
Weeki Wachee Gardens is a place people come home to
There are 59 jobs based in Weeki Wachee Gardens, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Weeki Wachee Gardens has about 750 people in it, 30% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
30% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 377 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Weeki Wachee Gardens’ grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Weeki Wachee Gardens is better than 9% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Weeki Wachee Gardens’ grade up (ahead of 33% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (46.0%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (31.3%) is left out: Weeki Wachee Gardens’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Weeki Wachee Gardens could be anywhere from D− to B+.
About 31 minutes each way, longer than most of Florida
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Weeki Wachee Gardens workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 166 commuters (the 44% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Weeki Wachee Gardens
On a workday 371 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 53 people come in from elsewhere.
About 750 people are in Weeki Wachee Gardens on a workday afternoon, 30% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where in the region Weeki Wachee Gardens works
About 30% 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.
12% of working residents work in Spring Hill
Where Weeki Wachee Gardens clocks in
12% of workers
8% 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.
What Weeki Wachee Gardens’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Weeki Wachee Gardens, 2014 → 2024: 61 → 59. 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 Weeki Wachee Gardens’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Most of Weeki Wachee Gardens commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Weeki Wachee Gardens is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 24.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.6% across Florida, on an EPA index of 4.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 295 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 1.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 58% 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 Weeki Wachee Gardens households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Weeki Wachee Gardens’ commuters take a bus or train.
Weeki Wachee Gardens is 2,623rd of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Fisher Island FL | 1,026 | $250K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 59 | Golden Beach FL | 1,029 | $236K | 7.1% | 2.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 194 | Palm Beach Shores FL | 1,350 | $87K | 5.3% | 9.1% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,621 | Taft Heights CA | 1,291 | $54K | 16.2% | 12.8% | <1% | D |
| 2,622 | Maxwell CA | 1,245 | $68K | 20.5% | 10.2% | 7% | D |
| 2,623 | Weeki Wachee Gardens FL | 1,068 | $57K | 46.0% | 31.3% | 2% | D |
| 2,624 | Cordova NC | 1,372 | $61K | 46.7% | 27.7% | 2% | D |
| 2,625 | Sandoval IL | 1,123 | $53K | 26.7% | 4.5% | 5% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Weeki Wachee Gardens, 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 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 Weeki Wachee Gardens: questions
What is the median household income in Weeki Wachee Gardens?
$56,765 (±$29,779) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Weeki Wachee Gardens?
46.0%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Weeki Wachee Gardens?
31 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 44% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Weeki Wachee Gardens work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Spring Hill (12%, 7 mi), Tampa (8%, 40 mi), Brooksville (6%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Weeki Wachee Gardens walkable?
Weeki Wachee Gardens is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 24% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Weeki Wachee Gardens without a car?
0% 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 Weeki Wachee Gardens, from the people who make the trip.
More of Weeki Wachee Gardens
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.