Work & commute · Alturas

Work & commute in Alturas, FL

Most working residents leave Alturas for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Bartow (12%), Lakeland (11%) and Winter Haven (7%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

25 of 1,780 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,755 Alturas residents head out of town to work, 25 work right here, and 395 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Alturas.

1,755live here, work elsewhere

25live and work here

395work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Alturas goes to work

Bartow9.1 mi away

12%211

Lakeland22.3 mi away

11%187

Winter Haven14.4 mi away

7%121

Lake Wales7.4 mi away

4%71

Orlando48.7 mi away

3%60

Tampa49.2 mi away

2%35

Plant City29.1 mi away

2%29

Alturas (in town)right here

1%25

Mulberry19.2 mi away

1%24

Jacksonville172.3 mi away

1%23

Everywhere elseother towns and states

56%994

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Alturas commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

22%

36%

18%

24%

22%Under 10 mi

36%10–24 mi

18%25–50 mi

24%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Alturas is a commuter town

0.24jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.24 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Alturas are

420 jobs are based in Alturas. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Alturas’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Alturas

420 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)33%

Trade, transport & utilities46%

Services (health, schools, offices…)20%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month54%

Jobs Alturas residents hold

1,780 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)56%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month54%

+3%

Jobs based in Alturas, 2013 → 2023: 407 → 420. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.