Work & commute · Doctor Phillips

Work & commute in Doctor Phillips, FL

Most working residents leave Doctor Phillips for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Orlando (27%), Lake Buena Vista (8%) and Tampa (2%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

226 of 5,784 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

19%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 5,558 Doctor Phillips residents head out of town to work, 226 work right here, and 8,067 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Doctor Phillips.

5,558live here, work elsewhere

226live and work here

8,067work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Doctor Phillips goes to work

Orlando10.4 mi away

27%1,544

Lake Buena Vista5.1 mi away

8%453

Doctor Phillips (in town)right here

4%226

Tampa68.3 mi away

2%120

Winter Park13.8 mi away

2%92

Maitland14.7 mi away

1%85

Jacksonville131.2 mi away

1%81

Celebration9.9 mi away

1%80

Kissimmee10.7 mi away

1%78

University20.4 mi away

1%57

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%2,968

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

How far

How far Doctor Phillips commutes

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

55%

23%

19%

55%Under 10 mi

23%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Doctor Phillips is balanced between jobs and homes

1.43jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.43 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Doctor Phillips are

8,293 jobs are based in Doctor Phillips. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Doctor Phillips’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Doctor Phillips

8,293 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)2%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)73%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month46%

Jobs Doctor Phillips residents hold

5,784 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)74%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month62%

+81%

Jobs based in Doctor Phillips, 2013 → 2023: 4,589 → 8,293. 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.