Work & commute · Cocoa West

Work & commute in Cocoa West, FL

Most working residents leave Cocoa West for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Cocoa (8%), Palm Bay (7%) and Melbourne (7%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

48 of 2,257 working residents

Typical commute

22 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 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 2,209 Cocoa West residents head out of town to work, 48 work right here, and 1,430 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cocoa West.

2,209live here, work elsewhere

48live and work here

1,430work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cocoa West goes to work

Cocoa1.3 mi away

8%185

Palm Bay28.7 mi away

7%163

Melbourne18.4 mi away

7%159

Rockledge3.3 mi away

6%144

Merritt Island6.7 mi away

5%115

Orlando34.4 mi away

5%112

Titusville15.1 mi away

3%68

Cocoa Beach9 mi away

3%65

Cape Canaveral10.4 mi away

2%51

Cocoa West (in town)right here

2%48

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%1,147

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

How far

How far Cocoa West commutes

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

33%

19%

24%

33%Under 10 mi

19%10–24 mi

24%25–50 mi

24%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cocoa West is a commuter town

0.65jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Cocoa West are

1,478 jobs are based in Cocoa West. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cocoa West’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Cocoa West

1,478 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)27%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)47%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs Cocoa West residents hold

2,257 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month47%

+25%

Jobs based in Cocoa West, 2013 → 2023: 1,180 → 1,478. 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.