Work & commute · Lake Placid

Work & commute in Lake Placid, FL

Most working residents leave Lake Placid for work: only 15% work in town. The top destinations are Sebring (7%), Port St. Lucie (2%) and Winter Haven (1%). Half commute less than 39 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

15%

134 of 896 working residents

Typical commute

39 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

27 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 762 Lake Placid residents head out of town to work, 134 work right here, and 1,614 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lake Placid.

762live here, work elsewhere

134live and work here

1,614work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lake Placid goes to work

Lake Placid (in town)right here

15%134

Sebring12.6 mi away

7%59

Port St. Lucie60.4 mi away

2%15

Winter Haven55.9 mi away

1%13

Lakeland63.1 mi away

1%12

Fort Myers55.2 mi away

1%11

Avon Park21.5 mi away

1%10

Fort Lauderdale110.2 mi away

1%9

Tampa81.7 mi away

1%9

Miami127.7 mi away

1%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

69%616

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

How far

How far Lake Placid commutes

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

27%

20%

46%

27%Under 10 mi

20%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

46%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lake Placid is a job hub

1.95jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Lake Placid are

1,748 jobs are based in Lake Placid. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lake Placid’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Lake Placid

1,748 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities29%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month46%

Over $3,333 a month33%

Jobs Lake Placid residents hold

896 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)25%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)57%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month40%

Over $3,333 a month43%

+6%

Jobs based in Lake Placid, 2013 → 2023: 1,654 → 1,748. 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.