Work & commute · Villas

Work & commute in Villas, FL

Most working residents leave Villas for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Fort Myers (18%), Cape Coral (6%) and Bonita Springs (2%). Half commute less than 8 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

435 of 5,124 working residents

Typical commute

8 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

15%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 4,689 Villas residents head out of town to work, 435 work right here, and 13,831 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Villas.

4,689live here, work elsewhere

435live and work here

13,831work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Villas goes to work

Fort Myers5.3 mi away

18%911

Villas (in town)right here

8%435

Cape Coral10.6 mi away

6%304

Bonita Springs14.3 mi away

2%119

Cypress Lake2.2 mi away

2%105

Estero9.3 mi away

2%100

North Fort Myers11.9 mi away

2%89

Iona6.3 mi away

2%82

Tampa105.1 mi away

1%68

Lehigh Acres14.7 mi away

1%61

Everywhere elseother towns and states

56%2,850

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

How far

How far Villas commutes

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

58%

11%

26%

58%Under 10 mi

11%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

26%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Villas is a job hub

2.78jobs per working resident

A job hub

2.8 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Villas are

14,266 jobs are based in Villas. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Villas’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Villas

14,266 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities27%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month57%

Jobs Villas residents hold

5,124 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month54%

+47%

Jobs based in Villas, 2013 → 2023: 9,680 → 14,266. 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.