Work & commute · Palm Springs

Work & commute in Palm Springs, FL

Most working residents leave Palm Springs for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are West Palm Beach (14%), Boca Raton (4%) and Boynton Beach (4%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

1,008 of 10,475 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 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 9,467 Palm Springs residents head out of town to work, 1,008 work right here, and 30,708 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Palm Springs.

9,467live here, work elsewhere

1,008live and work here

30,708work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Palm Springs goes to work

West Palm Beach7.8 mi away

14%1,415

Palm Springs (in town)right here

10%1,008

Boca Raton18.3 mi away

4%383

Boynton Beach7.6 mi away

4%369

Riviera Beach10.2 mi away

3%343

Lake Worth Beach2.7 mi away

3%313

Palm Beach5.4 mi away

3%290

Delray Beach12.4 mi away

3%267

Palm Beach Gardens15.3 mi away

2%253

Wellington10.5 mi away

2%229

Everywhere elseother towns and states

54%5,605

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

How far

How far Palm Springs commutes

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

55%

20%

10%

15%

55%Under 10 mi

20%10–24 mi

10%25–50 mi

15%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Palm Springs is a job hub

3.03jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Palm Springs are

31,716 jobs are based in Palm Springs. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Palm Springs’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Palm Springs

31,716 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)3%

Trade, transport & utilities7%

Services (health, schools, offices…)91%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month59%

Jobs Palm Springs residents hold

10,475 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month50%

+20%

Jobs based in Palm Springs, 2013 → 2023: 26,483 → 31,716. 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.