Work & commute · Cypress Gardens

Work & commute in Cypress Gardens, FL

Most working residents leave Cypress Gardens for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Winter Haven (17%), Lakeland (11%) and Bartow (9%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

33 of 4,418 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 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 4,385 Cypress Gardens residents head out of town to work, 33 work right here, and 462 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cypress Gardens.

4,385live here, work elsewhere

33live and work here

462work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cypress Gardens goes to work

Winter Haven3.9 mi away

17%745

Lakeland16.5 mi away

11%485

Bartow11.4 mi away

9%410

Tampa47.9 mi away

4%172

Orlando39.4 mi away

3%149

Haines City8.8 mi away

2%98

Lake Wales8 mi away

2%90

Auburndale9.8 mi away

2%77

East Lake-Orient Park41.1 mi away

1%54

Jacksonville161.2 mi away

1%51

Everywhere elseother towns and states

47%2,087

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

How far

How far Cypress Gardens commutes

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

30%

28%

20%

22%

30%Under 10 mi

28%10–24 mi

20%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cypress Gardens is a commuter town

0.11jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Cypress Gardens are

495 jobs are based in Cypress Gardens. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cypress Gardens’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Cypress Gardens

495 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month42%

Over $3,333 a month36%

Jobs Cypress Gardens residents hold

4,418 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month60%

−27%

Jobs based in Cypress Gardens, 2013 → 2023: 677 → 495. 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.