Work & commute · Palm Beach Gardens

Work & commute in Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Most working residents leave Palm Beach Gardens for work: only 17% work in town. The top destinations are West Palm Beach (13%), Jupiter (8%) and Riviera Beach (4%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17%

3,904 of 23,257 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

20%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 19,353 Palm Beach Gardens residents head out of town to work, 3,904 work right here, and 33,872 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Palm Beach Gardens.

19,353live here, work elsewhere

3,904live and work here

33,872work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Palm Beach Gardens goes to work

Palm Beach Gardens (in town)right here

17%3,904

West Palm Beach7.6 mi away

13%2,917

Jupiter5.8 mi away

8%1,816

Riviera Beach7.3 mi away

4%931

Palm Springs15.3 mi away

3%803

Juno Beach6.9 mi away

3%621

Boca Raton33.3 mi away

2%516

North Palm Beach7.1 mi away

2%515

Palm Beach13.1 mi away

2%460

Fort Lauderdale48.9 mi away

2%378

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%10,396

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

How far

How far Palm Beach Gardens commutes

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

50%

19%

10%

20%

50%Under 10 mi

19%10–24 mi

10%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Palm Beach Gardens is a job hub

1.62jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Palm Beach Gardens are

37,776 jobs are based in Palm Beach Gardens. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Palm Beach Gardens’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Palm Beach Gardens

37,776 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)73%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month61%

Jobs Palm Beach Gardens residents hold

23,257 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month65%

+39%

Jobs based in Palm Beach Gardens, 2013 → 2023: 27,151 → 37,776. 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.