Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church · Photo: Ebyabe · CC BY-SA 3.0Yulee has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Yulee has 3,662 jobs; 6,806 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Yulee is better than 62% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns (B). Working from home is the commute for 7% of workers; Florida has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Yulee
Yulee and Jacksonville trade workers both ways
Jacksonville is the top workplace for Yulee residents (39%) and also where the most people who work in Yulee come from (26% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Yulee has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Yulee went from 2,217 in 2013 to 3,662 in 2023, +65%. 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.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Yulee
Unemployment holds Yulee’s grade up (2.7%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (10.4%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Yulee could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
39% of working residents work in Jacksonville
Where Yulee clocks in
39% of workers
13% 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.
The kinds of work in Yulee
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Yulee, 2013 → 2023: 2,217 → 3,662. 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 Yulee’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In and out of Yulee on a workday
On a workday 6,345 residents head out to work, 461 work right here, and 3,201 people come in from elsewhere.
About 14,000 people are in Yulee on a workday afternoon, 19% 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.
How long Yulee spends getting to work: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Yulee workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 7,626 commuters (the 7% 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.
How many miles Yulee commutes
About 17% 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.
The commute in Yulee is mostly behind the wheel
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 8,234 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.0% of Yulee households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Yulee’s commuters take a bus or train.
991st of 1,888: where Yulee ranks among U.S. towns of 12,000 to 22,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 69 | Pinecrest FL | 18,635 | $206K | 4.3% | 3.0% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 88 | Lake Butler FL | 17,125 | $183K | 3.7% | 2.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 115 | Palm Valley FL | 19,796 | $117K | 4.2% | 1.2% | 13% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 989 | Laurel VA | 18,721 | $74K | 8.4% | 5.0% | 4% | B |
| 990 | Rathdrum ID | 13,227 | $87K | 12.4% | 1.6% | 9% | B |
| 991 | Yulee FL | 16,648 | $85K | 10.4% | 2.7% | 7% | B |
| 992 | Chubbuck ID | 16,823 | $83K | 6.0% | 4.3% | 14% | B |
| 993 | Mount Holly NC | 19,033 | $79K | 8.2% | 5.5% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 1,888 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Yulee, 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 Yulee: questions
What is the median household income in Yulee?
$85,247 (±$7,186) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Yulee?
10.4%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Yulee?
26 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Yulee work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jacksonville (39%, 21 mi), Fernandina Beach (13%, 7 mi), Tampa (1%, 192 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Yulee walkable?
Yulee is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Yulee without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Yulee, from the people who make the trip.
More of Yulee
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.