Work & commute · Port St. John

Work & commute in Port St. John, FL

Most working residents leave Port St. John for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Titusville (9%), Palm Bay (6%) and Cocoa (6%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

293 of 10,861 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 10,568 Port St. John residents head out of town to work, 293 work right here, and 1,107 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Port St. John.

10,568live here, work elsewhere

293live and work here

1,107work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Port St. John goes to work

Titusville6.7 mi away

9%1,010

Palm Bay37.1 mi away

6%674

Cocoa7.4 mi away

6%610

Rockledge11.5 mi away

5%583

Melbourne26.8 mi away

5%563

Orlando31.1 mi away

4%448

Merritt Island14.1 mi away

4%437

Cape Canaveral13.7 mi away

3%320

Port St. John (in town)right here

3%293

Cocoa Beach15 mi away

3%286

Everywhere elseother towns and states

52%5,637

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

How far

How far Port St. John commutes

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

27%

28%

26%

19%

27%Under 10 mi

28%10–24 mi

26%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Port St. John is a commuter town

0.13jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Port St. John are

1,400 jobs are based in Port St. John. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Port St. John’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Port St. John

1,400 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities33%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less27%

$1,251–$3,333 a month43%

Over $3,333 a month30%

Jobs Port St. John residents hold

10,861 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month59%

+18%

Jobs based in Port St. John, 2013 → 2023: 1,183 → 1,400. 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.