Work & commute · Palm

Work & commute in Palm, FL

Most working residents leave Palm for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Stuart (20%), Port St. Lucie (5%) and Jupiter (4%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

942 of 10,444 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

32 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

25%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 9,502 Palm residents head out of town to work, 942 work right here, and 5,112 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Palm.

9,502live here, work elsewhere

942live and work here

5,112work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Palm goes to work

Stuart3 mi away

20%2,043

Palm City (in town)right here

9%942

Port St. Lucie9.4 mi away

5%512

Jupiter20.6 mi away

4%375

West Palm Beach31.5 mi away

3%352

Palm Beach Gardens23.9 mi away

3%303

Fort Pierce17.5 mi away

3%302

Juno Beach25.2 mi away

2%157

Riviera Beach30.3 mi away

1%154

Orlando109.5 mi away

1%122

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%5,182

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

How far

How far Palm commutes

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

43%

15%

27%

43%Under 10 mi

15%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

27%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Palm is a commuter town

0.58jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Palm are

6,054 jobs are based in Palm. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Palm’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Palm

6,054 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month33%

Over $3,333 a month51%

Jobs Palm residents hold

10,444 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month62%

+47%

Jobs based in Palm, 2013 → 2023: 4,113 → 6,054. 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.