Work & commute · The Meadows

Work & commute in The Meadows, FL

Most working residents leave The Meadows for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Sarasota (17%), Fruitville (5%) and Lakewood Ranch (4%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

43 of 1,559 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

32%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,516 The Meadows residents head out of town to work, 43 work right here, and 513 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in The Meadows.

1,516live here, work elsewhere

43live and work here

513work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where The Meadows goes to work

Sarasota4.6 mi away

17%261

Fruitville2.3 mi away

5%72

Lakewood Ranch6.8 mi away

4%63

Tampa41.8 mi away

4%57

Bradenton10.8 mi away

3%46

The Meadows (in town)right here

3%43

South Sarasota6.7 mi away

3%40

Venice17.4 mi away

2%31

St. Petersburg29.6 mi away

1%21

Bee Ridge5.4 mi away

1%21

Everywhere elseother towns and states

58%904

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

How far

How far The Meadows commutes

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

53%

14%

25%

53%Under 10 mi

8%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

25%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

The Meadows is a commuter town

0.36jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in The Meadows are

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

Jobs based in The Meadows

556 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)2%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)73%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month58%

Jobs The Meadows residents hold

1,559 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month58%

+19%

Jobs based in The Meadows, 2013 → 2023: 469 → 556. 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.