Work & commute · Sun City Center

Work & commute in Sun City Center, FL

Most working residents leave Sun City Center for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Tampa (18%), St. Petersburg (5%) and East Lake-Orient Park (4%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

450 of 10,601 working residents

Typical commute

22 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

34 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

29%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 10,151 Sun City Center residents head out of town to work, 450 work right here, and 4,633 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sun City Center.

10,151live here, work elsewhere

450live and work here

4,633work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sun City Center goes to work

Tampa19 mi away

18%1,949

St. Petersburg18 mi away

5%479

Sun City Center (in town)right here

4%450

East Lake-Orient Park20.1 mi away

4%375

Brandon15.7 mi away

3%365

Riverview8.2 mi away

3%294

Lakeland34 mi away

2%242

Ruskin4.1 mi away

2%210

Bradenton20.6 mi away

2%202

Jacksonville185.9 mi away

2%180

Everywhere elseother towns and states

55%5,855

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

How far

How far Sun City Center commutes

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

11%

46%

19%

24%

11%Under 10 mi

46%10–24 mi

19%25–50 mi

24%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sun City Center is a commuter town

0.48jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Sun City Center are

5,083 jobs are based in Sun City Center. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Sun City Center’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Sun City Center

5,083 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)1%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)79%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month38%

Over $3,333 a month41%

Jobs Sun City Center residents hold

10,601 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month57%

+6%

Jobs based in Sun City Center, 2013 → 2023: 4,785 → 5,083. 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.