Work & commute · Fuller Heights

Work & commute in Fuller Heights, FL

Most working residents leave Fuller Heights for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Lakeland (25%), Bartow (9%) and Plant City (5%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

63 of 4,637 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 4,574 Fuller Heights residents head out of town to work, 63 work right here, and 780 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Fuller Heights.

4,574live here, work elsewhere

63live and work here

780work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Fuller Heights goes to work

Lakeland9.4 mi away

25%1,139

Bartow11 mi away

9%425

Plant City9.6 mi away

5%212

Tampa29.3 mi away

4%205

Orlando55.8 mi away

2%92

Winter Haven18.1 mi away

2%81

Mulberry1.5 mi away

2%72

East Lake-Orient Park23.1 mi away

1%69

Brandon18.5 mi away

1%65

Fuller Heights (in town)right here

1%63

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%2,214

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

How far

How far Fuller Heights commutes

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

43%

22%

16%

19%

43%Under 10 mi

22%10–24 mi

16%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Fuller Heights is a commuter town

0.18jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Fuller Heights are

843 jobs are based in Fuller Heights. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Fuller Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Fuller Heights

843 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities34%

Services (health, schools, offices…)55%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month46%

Over $3,333 a month34%

Jobs Fuller Heights residents hold

4,637 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month58%

+5%

Jobs based in Fuller Heights, 2013 → 2023: 801 → 843. 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.