Work & commute · Vero Lake Estates

Work & commute in Vero Lake Estates, FL

Most working residents leave Vero Lake Estates for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Vero Beach (13%), Sebastian (6%) and Fort Pierce (4%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

70 of 3,167 working residents

Typical commute

15 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,097 Vero Lake Estates residents head out of town to work, 70 work right here, and 174 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Vero Lake Estates.

3,097live here, work elsewhere

70live and work here

174work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Vero Lake Estates goes to work

Vero Beach10.8 mi away

13%411

Sebastian3.7 mi away

6%198

Fort Pierce24.9 mi away

4%116

Melbourne26.4 mi away

4%111

Vero Beach South11.5 mi away

3%103

Palm Bay16.6 mi away

3%94

Florida Ridge14.4 mi away

3%89

West Vero Corridor8.2 mi away

3%85

Vero Lake Estates (in town)right here

2%70

Fellsmere5.2 mi away

2%68

Everywhere elseother towns and states

58%1,822

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

How far

How far Vero Lake Estates commutes

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

30%

31%

11%

29%

30%Under 10 mi

31%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

29%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Vero Lake Estates is a commuter town

0.08jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Vero Lake Estates are

244 jobs are based in Vero Lake Estates. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Vero Lake Estates’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Vero Lake Estates

244 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)39%

Trade, transport & utilities2%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less20%

$1,251–$3,333 a month43%

Over $3,333 a month36%

Jobs Vero Lake Estates residents hold

3,167 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month55%

+52%

Jobs based in Vero Lake Estates, 2013 → 2023: 161 → 244. 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.