Williamsburg has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Employers in Williamsburg report 1,796 jobs for 4,317 working residents. For jobs and income Williamsburg is better than 87% of U.S. towns (A); for walkability it is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (B). Only 2% stay in Williamsburg for work; outside it, Orlando is the main destination (25%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The figures behind Williamsburg’s Jobs & income grade
Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 90% of U.S. towns); household income ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns ($89,191, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Williamsburg could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
Williamsburg on a workday afternoon
On a workday 4,238 residents head out to work, 79 work right here, and 1,717 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,500 people are in Williamsburg on a workday afternoon, 28% 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 2023, primary jobs.
Where Williamsburg goes to work
Where Williamsburg clocks in
25% of workers
11% of workers
1% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Williamsburg
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Williamsburg, 2013 → 2023: 1,462 → 1,796. 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 Williamsburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 24 minutes each way for Williamsburg’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Williamsburg workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,052 commuters (the 13% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Williamsburg
About 16% 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.
Few in Williamsburg walk, bike or ride to work
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.8% 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 4,682 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 5.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 85% 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). 3.6% of Williamsburg households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Williamsburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Williamsburg next to U.S. towns of 6,300 to 12,200: 565th of 2,891 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Braddock VA | 6,536 | $212K | 0.9% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 39 | Southwest Ranches FL | 7,773 | $161K | 3.8% | 1.5% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 183 | Neptune Beach FL | 7,020 | $119K | 3.1% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 342 | Westlake FL | 9,042 | $132K | 3.2% | 2.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 563 | Winfield IN | 9,140 | $136K | 5.9% | 3.0% | 3% | A |
| 564 | Sand Lake NY | 8,349 | $120K | 5.1% | 3.0% | 8% | A |
| 565 | Williamsburg FL | 9,063 | $89K | 6.1% | 2.8% | 2% | A |
| 566 | Little Chute WI | 11,800 | $88K | 5.7% | 2.4% | 9% | A |
| 567 | Smithfield VA | 9,112 | $113K | 5.4% | 2.5% | 12% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,891 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Williamsburg, 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 Williamsburg: questions
What is the median household income in Williamsburg?
$89,191 (±$11,902) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Williamsburg?
6.1%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Williamsburg?
24 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Williamsburg work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Orlando (25%, 9 mi), Lake Buena Vista (11%, 5 mi), Tampa (1%, 69 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Williamsburg walkable?
Williamsburg is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Williamsburg 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 Williamsburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Williamsburg
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.