Work & commute · Lake Butler

Work & commute in Lake Butler, FL

Most working residents leave Lake Butler for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Orlando (23%), Lake Buena Vista (9%) and Winter Garden (3%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

221 of 8,294 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

23%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 8,073 Lake Butler residents head out of town to work, 221 work right here, and 3,249 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lake Butler.

8,073live here, work elsewhere

221live and work here

3,249work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lake Butler goes to work

Orlando13.8 mi away

23%1,942

Lake Buena Vista8.6 mi away

9%776

Lake Butler (in town)right here

3%221

Winter Garden4.2 mi away

3%214

Ocoee5.6 mi away

2%180

Maitland14 mi away

2%161

Tampa67.3 mi away

2%153

Jacksonville127.2 mi away

2%151

Doctor Phillips5.2 mi away

1%124

Kissimmee15.7 mi away

1%105

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%4,267

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

How far

How far Lake Butler commutes

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

43%

33%

21%

43%Under 10 mi

33%10–24 mi

4%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lake Butler is a commuter town

0.42jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Lake Butler are

3,470 jobs are based in Lake Butler. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lake Butler’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Lake Butler

3,470 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)82%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month48%

Jobs Lake Butler residents hold

8,294 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)74%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month64%

+135%

Jobs based in Lake Butler, 2013 → 2023: 1,477 → 3,470. 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.