Work & commute · Cypress Lake

Work & commute in Cypress Lake, FL

Most working residents leave Cypress Lake for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Fort Myers (17%), Cape Coral (6%) and Villas (5%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

236 of 5,049 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 4,813 Cypress Lake residents head out of town to work, 236 work right here, and 4,582 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cypress Lake.

4,813live here, work elsewhere

236live and work here

4,582work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cypress Lake goes to work

Fort Myers6.9 mi away

17%861

Cape Coral9.4 mi away

6%285

Villas2.2 mi away

5%265

Cypress Lake (in town)right here

5%236

Bonita Springs14.7 mi away

2%120

Iona4.1 mi away

2%107

Tampa104.8 mi away

2%94

Estero10 mi away

2%92

Sanibel14.1 mi away

2%81

Punta Rassa6.9 mi away

1%49

Everywhere elseother towns and states

57%2,859

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

How far

How far Cypress Lake commutes

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

54%

13%

28%

54%Under 10 mi

13%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

28%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cypress Lake is balanced between jobs and homes

0.95jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.95 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Cypress Lake are

4,818 jobs are based in Cypress Lake. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cypress Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Cypress Lake

4,818 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)2%

Trade, transport & utilities5%

Services (health, schools, offices…)93%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month58%

Jobs Cypress Lake residents hold

5,049 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month57%

+30%

Jobs based in Cypress Lake, 2013 → 2023: 3,704 → 4,818. 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.