Work & commute · Sharpes

Work & commute in Sharpes, FL

Most working residents leave Sharpes for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Cocoa (7%), Melbourne (6%) and Rockledge (6%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

32 of 1,435 working residents

Typical commute

15 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

37 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

18%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,403 Sharpes residents head out of town to work, 32 work right here, and 569 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sharpes.

1,403live here, work elsewhere

32live and work here

569work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sharpes goes to work

Cocoa4.6 mi away

7%104

Melbourne23.8 mi away

6%80

Rockledge8.6 mi away

6%79

Titusville9.6 mi away

5%78

Merritt Island10.6 mi away

5%78

Palm Bay34.3 mi away

5%69

Cocoa Beach11.3 mi away

4%52

Orlando34.1 mi away

4%51

Cape Canaveral10.1 mi away

3%43

Sharpes (in town)right here

2%32

Everywhere elseother towns and states

54%769

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

How far

How far Sharpes commutes

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

37%

20%

21%

37%Under 10 mi

20%10–24 mi

21%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sharpes is a commuter town

0.42jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Sharpes are

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

Jobs based in Sharpes

601 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)60%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month36%

Over $3,333 a month45%

Jobs Sharpes residents hold

1,435 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month54%

+9%

Jobs based in Sharpes, 2013 → 2023: 550 → 601. 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.