Work & commute · Winter Beach

Work & commute in Winter Beach, FL

Most working residents leave Winter Beach for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Vero Beach (17%), Vero Beach South (4%) and Fort Pierce (3%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

27 of 1,209 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

22 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

17%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,182 Winter Beach residents head out of town to work, 27 work right here, and 837 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Winter Beach.

1,182live here, work elsewhere

27live and work here

837work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Winter Beach goes to work

Vero Beach4.8 mi away

17%202

Vero Beach South6.9 mi away

4%49

Fort Pierce20.4 mi away

3%41

West Vero Corridor6.5 mi away

3%37

Sebastian5.9 mi away

3%36

Florida Ridge9.3 mi away

3%34

Winter Beach (in town)right here

2%27

Melbourne31.2 mi away

2%26

Port St. Lucie29.9 mi away

2%20

Palm Bay22.4 mi away

1%17

Everywhere elseother towns and states

60%720

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

How far

How far Winter Beach commutes

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

48%

10%

34%

48%Under 10 mi

9%10–24 mi

10%25–50 mi

34%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Winter Beach is a commuter town

0.71jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Winter Beach are

864 jobs are based in Winter Beach. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Winter Beach’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Winter Beach

864 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)40%

Trade, transport & utilities10%

Services (health, schools, offices…)50%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month57%

Jobs Winter Beach residents hold

1,209 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month57%

+10%

Jobs based in Winter Beach, 2013 → 2023: 784 → 864. 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.