Work & commute · Viera West

Work & commute in Viera West, FL

Most working residents leave Viera West for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Melbourne (18%), Palm Bay (9%) and Rockledge (6%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

446 of 7,238 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 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 6,792 Viera West residents head out of town to work, 446 work right here, and 5,051 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Viera West.

6,792live here, work elsewhere

446live and work here

5,051work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Viera West goes to work

Melbourne10.5 mi away

18%1,276

Palm Bay20.6 mi away

9%619

Rockledge5.3 mi away

6%447

Viera West (in town)right here

6%446

Orlando38.7 mi away

5%338

Merritt Island5.9 mi away

2%147

Viera East2 mi away

2%139

Cocoa9.2 mi away

2%130

Titusville23.1 mi away

2%123

Cocoa Beach9 mi away

2%117

Everywhere elseother towns and states

48%3,456

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

How far

How far Viera West commutes

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

30%

34%

13%

22%

30%Under 10 mi

34%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

22%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Viera West is balanced between jobs and homes

0.76jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.76 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Viera West are

5,497 jobs are based in Viera West. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Viera West’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Viera West

5,497 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)2%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)75%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month42%

Jobs Viera West residents hold

7,238 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month67%

−66%

Jobs based in Viera West, 2013 → 2023: 16,357 → 5,497. 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.