Work & commute · Key Colony Beach

Work & commute in Key Colony Beach, FL

Most working residents leave Key Colony Beach for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Marathon (30%), Key West (9%) and Miami (3%). Half commute less than 50 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

15 of 333 working residents

Typical commute

50 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

10 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 318 Key Colony Beach residents head out of town to work, 15 work right here, and 244 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Key Colony Beach.

318live here, work elsewhere

15live and work here

244work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Key Colony Beach goes to work

Marathon0.7 mi away

30%99

Key West48.6 mi away

9%29

Key Colony Beach (in town)right here

5%15

Miami88.7 mi away

3%11

Homestead62.7 mi away

2%8

Kendall77.5 mi away

2%8

Islamorada, Village of Islands35.2 mi away

2%6

Hialeah91.1 mi away

2%6

Duck Key7.8 mi away

2%5

Tamarac112.9 mi away

1%4

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%142

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

How far

How far Key Colony Beach commutes

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

36%

10%

52%

36%Under 10 mi

2%10–24 mi

10%25–50 mi

52%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Key Colony Beach is balanced between jobs and homes

0.78jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.78 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Key Colony Beach are

259 jobs are based in Key Colony Beach. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Key Colony Beach’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Key Colony Beach

259 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities6%

Services (health, schools, offices…)87%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month52%

Jobs Key Colony Beach residents hold

333 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month54%

+23%

Jobs based in Key Colony Beach, 2013 → 2023: 210 → 259. 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.