Work & commute · Lady Lake

Work & commute in Lady Lake, FL

Most working residents leave Lady Lake for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are The Villages (8%), Wildwood (7%) and Leesburg (7%). Half commute less than 33 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

442 of 5,016 working residents

Typical commute

33 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

18 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 4,574 Lady Lake residents head out of town to work, 442 work right here, and 8,034 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lady Lake.

4,574live here, work elsewhere

442live and work here

8,034work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lady Lake goes to work

Lady Lake (in town)right here

9%442

The Villages4 mi away

8%387

Wildwood9.1 mi away

7%333

Leesburg14.1 mi away

7%328

Orlando48.2 mi away

5%250

Tavares15.1 mi away

4%185

Ocala22.2 mi away

3%126

Jacksonville99.2 mi away

2%117

Tampa73.5 mi away

2%113

Fruitland Park4.9 mi away

2%79

Everywhere elseother towns and states

53%2,656

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

How far

How far Lady Lake commutes

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

35%

13%

19%

33%

35%Under 10 mi

13%10–24 mi

19%25–50 mi

33%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lady Lake is a job hub

1.69jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Lady Lake are

8,476 jobs are based in Lady Lake. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lady Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Lady Lake

8,476 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month37%

Jobs Lady Lake residents hold

5,016 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month48%

+18%

Jobs based in Lady Lake, 2013 → 2023: 7,209 → 8,476. 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.