Photo: Connor J. Williams · CC BY 3.0Winter Springs has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Only 4% work in Winter Springs; the top destination outside it is Orlando (18%, 16 miles). Employers in Winter Springs report 5,306 jobs, against 18,040 working residents. For jobs and income Winter Springs is better than 79% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (B).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Winter Springs stands out on work
Winter Springs has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Winter Springs went from 3,364 in 2013 to 5,306 in 2023, +58%. The jobs ↓
Winter Springs draws workers from far and wide
The 5,306 jobs in Winter Springs are filled from a wide area. Winter Springs’ own residents hold 12% and the ten next-biggest home towns 24%; the other 64% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Winter Springs is a place people come home to
There are 5,306 jobs based in Winter Springs, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Winter Springs has about 27,000 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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.
Inside Winter Springs’ Jobs & income grade
Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 84% of U.S. towns); unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (4.0%, U.S. 5.2%). 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, Winter Springs could be anywhere from B to A.
The kinds of work in Winter Springs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Winter Springs, 2013 → 2023: 3,364 → 5,306. 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 Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the trip to work from Winter Springs ends
Where Winter Springs clocks in
18% 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.
Winter Springs by day and by night
On a workday 17,397 residents head out to work, 643 work right here, and 4,663 people come in from elsewhere.
About 27,000 people are in Winter Springs on a workday afternoon, 32% 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.
From Winter Springs, about 29 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Winter Springs workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 15,091 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.
Where in the region Winter Springs works
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.
In Winter Springs, most people drive to work
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.9% 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 19,070 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 20% 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 0.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 44% 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). 2.6% of Winter Springs households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Winter Springs’ commuters take a bus or train.
389th of 1,064: where Winter Springs ranks among U.S. towns of 28,000 to 53,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 2 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Leawood KS | 34,093 | $186K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 9% | A+ |
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| 58 | Parkland FL | 39,186 | $199K | 4.3% | 3.1% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 117 | Fruit Cove FL | 35,877 | $142K | 2.7% | 2.8% | 4% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 142 | Cooper City FL | 35,030 | $132K | 5.0% | 4.0% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 387 | East Fishkill NY | 29,801 | $139K | 3.8% | 5.5% | 10% | A− |
| 388 | Windsor CO | 43,840 | $127K | 6.0% | 4.5% | 9% | A− |
| 389 | Winter Springs FL | 39,585 | $93K | 6.8% | 4.0% | 4% | A− |
| 390 | Lake in the Hills IL | 28,590 | $117K | 4.1% | 5.9% | 3% | A− |
| 391 | Maple Valley WA | 28,482 | $153K | 4.8% | 4.8% | 8% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,064 | 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 Springs, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
The towns around Winter Springs
The biggest share goes to Oviedo (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Winter Springs workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter Springs | – | A− | B | 29 min | $92,574 |
| Oviedo | 2% | A− | B− | 27 min | $117,070 |
| Casselberry | under 3% | B | A− | 28 min | $62,447 |
| Longwood | 2% | B | A− | 26 min | $78,548 |
| Black Hammock | under 3% | C+ | C− | 21 min | $51,563 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Winter Springs’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 Springs: questions
What is the median household income in Winter Springs?
$92,574 (±$4,517) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Winter Springs?
6.8%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Winter Springs?
29 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 Springs work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Orlando (18%, 16 mi), Sanford (7%, 6 mi), University (5%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Winter Springs walkable?
Winter Springs is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.6 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Winter Springs without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Winter Springs, from the people who make the trip.
More of Winter Springs
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.