Work & commute · Buckingham

Work & commute in Buckingham, FL

Most working residents leave Buckingham for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Fort Myers (22%), Cape Coral (5%) and Lehigh Acres (5%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

69 of 2,036 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

14%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,967 Buckingham residents head out of town to work, 69 work right here, and 1,499 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Buckingham.

1,967live here, work elsewhere

69live and work here

1,499work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Buckingham goes to work

Fort Myers5.5 mi away

22%449

Cape Coral15.4 mi away

5%110

Lehigh Acres7.1 mi away

5%92

Buckingham (in town)right here

3%69

Villas10 mi away

3%66

North Fort Myers7.9 mi away

3%62

Bonita Springs20.3 mi away

2%40

Estero15.5 mi away

1%23

Gateway4.5 mi away

1%23

LaBelle18.9 mi away

1%20

Everywhere elseother towns and states

53%1,082

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

How far

How far Buckingham commutes

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

43%

29%

20%

43%Under 10 mi

29%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Buckingham is balanced between jobs and homes

0.77jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.77 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Buckingham are

1,568 jobs are based in Buckingham. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Buckingham’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Buckingham

1,568 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)31%

Trade, transport & utilities4%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month60%

Jobs Buckingham residents hold

2,036 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month61%

+79%

Jobs based in Buckingham, 2013 → 2023: 878 → 1,568. 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.