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Work & commute in Lake Panasoffkee · A commuter town

98% of Lake Panasoffkee’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Lake Panasoffkee for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Wildwood (11%), Bushnell (6%) and Leesburg (6%). Half commute less than 21 miles.

Work in town
2%
28 of 1,470 working residents
Typical commute
21 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
28 min
Less than FL (28 min)
Work from home
8%
Less than FL (16%)
Jobs based here
94
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Lake Panasoffkee?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The commute map

11% of working residents work in Wildwood

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

Kenneth CityFruitland ParkInverness: 22 residents work here (1%)Bushnell: 93 residents work here (6%)Tavares: 24 residents work here (2%)Leesburg: 88 residents work here (6%)Jacksonville: 33 residents work here (2%)Ocala: 59 residents work here (4%)Wildwood: 163 residents work here (11%)Tampa: 29 residents work here (2%)Lake PanasoffkeeFloral CityWesley ChapelThe Villages: 47 residents work here (3%)WildwoodBushnellLeesburgOcalaThe VillagesJacksonvilleLake Panasoffkee
1
Wildwood7.2 mi away
11%163
2
Bushnell6.6 mi away
6%93
3
Leesburg14.1 mi away
6%88
4
Ocala27.2 mi away
4%59
5
The Villages11.1 mi away
3%47
6
Jacksonville110.7 mi away
2%33
7
Tampa60.3 mi away
2%29
8
Lake Panasoffkee (in town)right here
2%28
9
Tavares22.2 mi away
2%24
10
Inverness13.9 mi away
1%22
Everywhere elseother towns and states
60%884
The top trips

Where Lake Panasoffkee clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

Day and night

Lake Panasoffkee quiets down on a workday

On a workday 1,442 residents head out to work, 28 work right here, and 66 people come in from elsewhere.

1,442live here, work elsewhere
28live and work here
66work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night4,800
Workday3,400
4,800live here− 1,400head out to work+ 66come in to work= 3,400on a workday

About 3,400 people are in Lake Panasoffkee on a workday afternoon, 29% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.06jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

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

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.

How far

Half of Lake Panasoffkee commutes less than 21 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi50 mi80 miWildwood: 11% · 7.2 miBushnell: 6% · 6.6 miLeesburg: 6% · 14.1 miOcala: 4% · 27.2 miThe Villages: 3% · 11.1 miJacksonville: 2% · 110.7 miTampa: 2% · 60.3 miTavares: 2% · 22.2 miInverness: 1% · 13.9 miWildwood 11%Bushnell 6%Leesburg 6%Ocala 4%The Villages 3%Lake Panasoffkee
Lake PanasoffkeeTop destinations (size = commuters)
30%Under 10 mi444 residents
26%10–24 mi380 residents
20%25–50 mi293 residents
24%Over 50 mi350 residents

About 24% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.

Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.

The jobs

What the 94 jobs in Lake Panasoffkee are

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

Jobs based in Lake PanasoffkeeJobs Lake Panasoffkee residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms24%19%
Trade, transport & utilities27%23%
Services: health, schools, offices49%58%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less32%15%
$1,251–$3,333 a month48%36%
Over $3,333 a month20%49%

Who does it

29 or younger20%23%
30 to 5441%49%
55 and older38%29%
+7%

Jobs based in Lake Panasoffkee, 2013 → 2023: 88 → 94. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.

Time on the road

About 28 minutes each way, about the FL average

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

A year of commuting
211 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Lake Panasoffkee28 min
Florida28 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
8%

of Lake Panasoffkee workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.

About 1 in 10

How Lake Panasoffkee ranks on commute time →

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
  • Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
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Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.

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