Work & commute · Tropical Park

Work & commute in Tropical Park, FL

Most working residents leave Tropical Park for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Merritt Island (10%), Cocoa Beach (6%) and Palm Bay (5%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

18 of 927 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

19%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 909 Tropical Park residents head out of town to work, 18 work right here, and 598 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Tropical Park.

909live here, work elsewhere

18live and work here

598work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Tropical Park goes to work

Merritt Island5.3 mi away

10%90

Cocoa Beach6 mi away

6%54

Palm Bay29.5 mi away

5%49

Rockledge4.5 mi away

5%42

Melbourne18.9 mi away

4%40

Orlando37.9 mi away

4%37

Cocoa3.4 mi away

4%35

Titusville15 mi away

3%25

Tropical Park (in town)right here

2%18

Viera West9.6 mi away

2%18

Everywhere elseother towns and states

56%519

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

How far

How far Tropical Park commutes

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

40%

14%

19%

27%

40%Under 10 mi

14%10–24 mi

19%25–50 mi

27%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Tropical Park is a commuter town

0.66jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Tropical Park are

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

Jobs based in Tropical Park

616 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)3%

Trade, transport & utilities35%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month42%

Over $3,333 a month38%

Jobs Tropical Park residents hold

927 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month41%

Over $3,333 a month41%

−9%

Jobs based in Tropical Park, 2013 → 2023: 679 → 616. 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.