Photo: Freeholdman12 · CC BY 4.0Household incomes in Winter Garden are higher than in 81% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 9.9% of residents, next to 12.6% for Florida as a whole. The two grades for Winter Garden are B for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. About one in ten work in Winter Garden; the top destination outside it is Orlando (23%, 17 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Winter Garden stands out on work
Winter Garden trades workers with the towns around it
Winter Garden has about as many jobs (21,465) as working residents (22,274), but they are mostly different people: 20,421 residents leave for work each day while 19,612 people come in. Only 9% of the jobs in Winter Garden are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Jobs in Winter Garden have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Winter Garden went from 10,380 in 2013 to 21,465 in 2023, +107%. The jobs ↓
Winter Garden draws workers from far and wide
The 21,465 jobs in Winter Garden are filled from a wide area. Winter Garden’s own residents hold 9% and the ten next-biggest home towns 25%; the other 66% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
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.
Jobs & income in Winter Garden: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Winter Garden is better than 63% of U.S. towns, #221 of 638 in Florida. Job access by car holds Winter Garden’s grade up (ahead of 83% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (6.6%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Winter Garden could be anywhere from B− to A−.
The workday shuffle in and out of Winter Garden
On a workday 20,421 residents head out to work, 1,853 work right here, and 19,612 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.96 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Jobs in Winter Garden: what the 21,465 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Winter Garden, 2013 → 2023: 10,380 → 21,465. 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 Winter Garden’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Winter Garden’s working residents head each day
Where Winter Garden clocks in
23% of workers
9% 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.
From Winter Garden, about 27 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Winter Garden workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 18,509 commuters (the 21% 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 commute from Winter Garden, by distance
About 19% 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.
Driving is how Winter Garden gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Winter Garden is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns, #275 of 638 in Florida. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.5% 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 23,477 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 18% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 11% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.4 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 48% 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). 3.7% of Winter Garden households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Winter Garden’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Winter Garden ranks: 497th of 909 U.S. towns of 34,000 to 65,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 2 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
| 3 | Upper Arlington OH | 35,893 | $155K | 3.3% | 2.0% | 7% | A+ |
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| 44 | Parkland FL | 39,186 | $199K | 4.3% | 3.1% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 91 | Fruit Cove FL | 35,877 | $142K | 2.7% | 2.8% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 111 | Cooper City FL | 35,030 | $132K | 5.0% | 4.0% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 495 | Gallatin TN | 54,590 | $78K | 13.0% | 3.1% | 25% | B |
| 496 | Clearfield UT | 35,144 | $75K | 12.7% | 2.8% | 9% | B |
| 497 | Winter Garden FL | 48,063 | $106K | 9.9% | 6.6% | 8% | B |
| 498 | Westchester FL | 52,032 | $72K | 10.0% | 4.5% | 7% | B |
| 499 | Security-Widefield CO | 37,345 | $91K | 7.3% | 5.3% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 909 | Bullhead City AZ | 43,987 | $51K | 18.7% | 11.5% | 26% | 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 Winter Garden, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
The towns around Winter Garden
The biggest share goes to Ocoee (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Winter Garden workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter Garden | – | B | B+ | 27 min | $106,495 |
| Lake Butler | under 2% | A+ | C+ | 28 min | $182,500 |
| Horizon West | under 2% | A | B | 27 min | $127,335 |
| Ocoee | 3% | B+ | A− | 31 min | $98,911 |
| Tildenville | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Oakland | under 2% | A | A | 29 min | $152,195 |
Same-state neighbors only. Tildenville: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Winter Garden’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 Winter Garden: questions
What is the median household income in Winter Garden?
$106,495 (±$7,925) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Winter Garden?
9.9%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Winter Garden?
27 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Winter Garden work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Orlando (23%, 17 mi), Lake Buena Vista (9%, 12 mi), Ocoee (3%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Winter Garden walkable?
Winter Garden is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 9.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Winter Garden without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 11% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Winter Garden, from the people who make the trip.
More of Winter Garden
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.