Work & commute · Cape Canaveral

Work & commute in Cape Canaveral, FL

Most working residents leave Cape Canaveral for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Cocoa Beach (11%), Palm Bay (5%) and Orlando (5%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

334 of 3,934 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

24%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,600 Cape Canaveral residents head out of town to work, 334 work right here, and 4,528 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cape Canaveral.

3,600live here, work elsewhere

334live and work here

4,528work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cape Canaveral goes to work

Cocoa Beach4.6 mi away

11%452

Cape Canaveral (in town)right here

8%334

Palm Bay30.5 mi away

5%186

Orlando43.9 mi away

5%185

Melbourne19.9 mi away

4%150

Merritt Island7.2 mi away

4%145

Rockledge9.5 mi away

3%123

Titusville18 mi away

3%104

Cocoa9.7 mi away

3%102

Jacksonville148.5 mi away

1%54

Everywhere elseother towns and states

53%2,099

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

How far

How far Cape Canaveral commutes

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

40%

17%

15%

28%

40%Under 10 mi

17%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

28%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cape Canaveral is balanced between jobs and homes

1.24jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.24 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Cape Canaveral are

4,862 jobs are based in Cape Canaveral. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cape Canaveral’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Cape Canaveral

4,862 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities10%

Services (health, schools, offices…)74%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month19%

Over $3,333 a month71%

Jobs Cape Canaveral residents hold

3,934 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month54%

+11%

Jobs based in Cape Canaveral, 2013 → 2023: 4,395 → 4,862. 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.