Work & commute · Cocoa

Work & commute in Cocoa, FL

Most working residents leave Cocoa for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Rockledge (7%), Palm Bay (7%) and Melbourne (6%). Half commute less than 21 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

690 of 7,880 working residents

Typical commute

21 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 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 7,190 Cocoa residents head out of town to work, 690 work right here, and 9,943 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cocoa.

7,190live here, work elsewhere

690live and work here

9,943work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cocoa goes to work

Cocoa (in town)right here

9%690

Rockledge4.1 mi away

7%538

Palm Bay29.8 mi away

7%513

Melbourne19.4 mi away

6%461

Merritt Island7.1 mi away

5%411

Orlando34.6 mi away

5%388

Titusville14 mi away

3%255

Cocoa Beach8.9 mi away

3%226

Cape Canaveral9.7 mi away

2%176

Viera West9.2 mi away

2%147

Everywhere elseother towns and states

52%4,075

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

How far

How far Cocoa commutes

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

34%

19%

23%

24%

34%Under 10 mi

19%10–24 mi

23%25–50 mi

24%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cocoa is balanced between jobs and homes

1.35jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.35 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Cocoa are

10,633 jobs are based in Cocoa. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cocoa’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Cocoa

10,633 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)30%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)43%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs Cocoa residents hold

7,880 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month50%

+39%

Jobs based in Cocoa, 2013 → 2023: 7,674 → 10,633. 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.