Work & commute · Lehigh Acres

Work & commute in Lehigh Acres, FL

Most working residents leave Lehigh Acres for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Fort Myers (19%), Cape Coral (5%) and Villas (3%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

4,165 of 48,611 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

38 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 44,446 Lehigh Acres residents head out of town to work, 4,165 work right here, and 6,571 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lehigh Acres.

44,446live here, work elsewhere

4,165live and work here

6,571work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lehigh Acres goes to work

Fort Myers11.9 mi away

19%9,020

Lehigh Acres (in town)right here

9%4,165

Cape Coral22.2 mi away

5%2,251

Villas14.7 mi away

3%1,390

Bonita Springs20 mi away

3%1,227

Estero16.3 mi away

2%817

North Fort Myers14.7 mi away

1%661

Tampa106.8 mi away

1%585

Gateway7.1 mi away

1%560

San Carlos Park14.6 mi away

1%551

Everywhere elseother towns and states

56%27,384

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

How far

How far Lehigh Acres commutes

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

22%

43%

25%

22%Under 10 mi

43%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

25%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lehigh Acres is a commuter town

0.22jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Lehigh Acres are

10,736 jobs are based in Lehigh Acres. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lehigh Acres’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Lehigh Acres

10,736 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)35%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)44%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month39%

Over $3,333 a month43%

Jobs Lehigh Acres residents hold

48,611 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month52%

+67%

Jobs based in Lehigh Acres, 2013 → 2023: 6,423 → 10,736. 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.