Work & commute · Cocoa Beach

Work & commute in Cocoa Beach, FL

Most working residents leave Cocoa Beach for work: only 18% work in town. The top destinations are Melbourne (6%), Palm Bay (6%) and Orlando (6%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

18%

731 of 4,088 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

25%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,357 Cocoa Beach residents head out of town to work, 731 work right here, and 6,071 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cocoa Beach.

3,357live here, work elsewhere

731live and work here

6,071work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cocoa Beach goes to work

Cocoa Beach (in town)right here

18%731

Melbourne15.3 mi away

6%246

Palm Bay26 mi away

6%231

Orlando43.4 mi away

6%226

Cape Canaveral4.6 mi away

3%134

Rockledge6.7 mi away

3%113

Merritt Island3.3 mi away

3%108

Cocoa8.9 mi away

2%97

Jacksonville152 mi away

2%66

Titusville20.5 mi away

1%54

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%2,082

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

How far

How far Cocoa Beach commutes

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

37%

19%

15%

29%

37%Under 10 mi

19%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

29%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cocoa Beach is a job hub

1.66jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Cocoa Beach are

6,802 jobs are based in Cocoa Beach. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cocoa Beach’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Cocoa Beach

6,802 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)84%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs Cocoa Beach residents hold

4,088 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month59%

+26%

Jobs based in Cocoa Beach, 2013 → 2023: 5,404 → 6,802. 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.