Work & commute · Palm Shores

Work & commute in Palm Shores, FL

Most working residents leave Palm Shores for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Melbourne (23%), Palm Bay (11%) and Rockledge (4%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

1 of 479 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

13%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 478 Palm Shores residents head out of town to work, 1 work right here, and 500 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Palm Shores.

478live here, work elsewhere

1live and work here

500work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Palm Shores goes to work

Melbourne5.6 mi away

23%109

Palm Bay16.4 mi away

11%52

Rockledge10.2 mi away

4%19

West Melbourne9.8 mi away

3%12

Orlando44.7 mi away

2%10

Cocoa Beach9.7 mi away

2%8

Cocoa14.3 mi away

2%8

Tampa111.7 mi away

2%8

Merritt Island8.2 mi away

2%8

Cape Canaveral14.3 mi away

1%7

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%238

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

How far

How far Palm Shores commutes

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

45%

23%

27%

45%Under 10 mi

23%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

27%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Palm Shores is balanced between jobs and homes

1.05jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.05 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Palm Shores are

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

Jobs based in Palm Shores

501 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month70%

Jobs Palm Shores residents hold

479 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)22%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month66%

+20%

Jobs based in Palm Shores, 2013 → 2023: 417 → 501. 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.