Work & commute · St. Cloud

Work & commute in St. Cloud, FL

Most working residents leave St. Cloud for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Orlando (19%), Kissimmee (6%) and Lake Buena Vista (4%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

2,421 of 29,977 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

36 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 27,556 St. Cloud residents head out of town to work, 2,421 work right here, and 8,668 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in St. Cloud.

27,556live here, work elsewhere

2,421live and work here

8,668work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where St. Cloud goes to work

Orlando16.7 mi away

19%5,761

St. Cloud (in town)right here

8%2,421

Kissimmee9.7 mi away

6%1,715

Lake Buena Vista17.8 mi away

4%1,241

Tampa75.1 mi away

1%445

Jacksonville147.1 mi away

1%389

University25.1 mi away

1%307

Lakeland43 mi away

1%305

Maitland28 mi away

1%296

Altamonte Springs30.3 mi away

1%231

Everywhere elseother towns and states

56%16,866

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

How far

How far St. Cloud commutes

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

23%

42%

18%

23%Under 10 mi

42%10–24 mi

18%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

St. Cloud is a commuter town

0.37jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in St. Cloud are

11,089 jobs are based in St. Cloud. Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Cloud’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in St. Cloud

11,089 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month39%

Jobs St. Cloud residents hold

29,977 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month56%

+61%

Jobs based in St. Cloud, 2013 → 2023: 6,903 → 11,089. 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.