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Work & commute · Lake Butler

Work & commute in Lake Butler, FL

Most working residents leave Lake Butler for work: only 17% work in town. The top destinations are Gainesville (18%), Jacksonville (14%) and Starke (5%). Half commute less than 25 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
17%
144 of 841 working residents
Typical commute
25 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
26 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
5%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 697 Lake Butler residents head out of town to work, 144 work right here, and 1,152 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lake Butler.

697live here, work elsewhere
144live and work here
1,152work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Lake Butler goes to work

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1
Gainesville23.4 mi away
18%148
2
Lake Butler (in town)right here
17%144
3
Jacksonville46.3 mi away
14%117
4
Starke14.6 mi away
5%38
5
Lake City21.4 mi away
3%24
6
Alachua18.5 mi away
2%21
7
Macclenny22.3 mi away
2%18
8
Ocala59.2 mi away
1%12
9
Tallahassee117.9 mi away
1%12
10
Orlando123.2 mi away
1%12
Everywhere elseother towns and states
35%295

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.

22%Under 10 mi
28%10–24 mi
29%25–50 mi
21%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Lake Butler is a job hub

1.54jobs per working resident
A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Lake Butler are

1,296 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

1,296 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)6%
Trade, transport & utilities13%
Services (health, schools, offices…)80%
$1,250 a month or less16%
$1,251–$3,333 a month36%
Over $3,333 a month48%

Jobs Lake Butler residents hold

841 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)15%
Trade, transport & utilities20%
Services (health, schools, offices…)65%
$1,250 a month or less13%
$1,251–$3,333 a month32%
Over $3,333 a month54%
−14%

Jobs based in Lake Butler, 2013 → 2023: 1,501 → 1,296. 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.

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