Work here
Healthcare, schools, hotels, grocery, construction, landscaping, city and county. AdventHealth and Flagler Schools are the large private and public benches. This is not a Fortune-500 campus town.
Work
The job market is not Jacksonville. Plan for that.
Healthcare, schools, hotels, grocery, trades, city hall — and a laptop if the fiber shows up. Addresses for CareerSource, Daytona State, and Flagler Technical College.
Labor force
56,000+
Flagler County, July 2026
Unemployment
5.6%
July 2026. Not a boom-town number.
Median household
~$78,000
2025 county snapshot
Median home
~$385,000
The payment and the wage are different conversations.
Flagler’s payroll is hospitals, classrooms, rooms with a view, grocery aisles, and lawns. Tourism is still a sector. Healthcare passed it as the top private industry. If someone in the house needs a metro career every Tuesday, do the drive once at 5 p.m. before you waive anything.
Commute
St. Augustine and Daytona are the realistic weekday. Jacksonville is 75–90 minutes if I-95 cooperates. Orlando every day is a different life than the listing photos.
Laptop
A meaningful share of the labor force already works from home. Fiber is street-specific. Order internet two weeks out. The original ITT grid was not designed for everyone’s Zoom call at 9 a.m.
Who signs the paychecks
Largest Flagler employers
Counts from Flagler County Economic Development / FloridaCommerce (CEMP 2025). They move. Use them as a shape, not a job offer.
| Employer | Kind | About | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flagler County School District | Public | ~2,300 | Largest employer in the county. |
| AdventHealth Palm Coast | Healthcare | ~1,800 | Two hospital campuses. The private-sector anchor. |
| Publix | Retail | ~890 | Grocery is a real Flagler payroll. |
| City of Palm Coast | Public | ~600 | Utilities, parks, fire, the desk you call about trash. |
| Hammock Beach Resort | Hospitality | ~500 | Tourism still matters. Seasonal hiring is a season. |
| Walmart | Retail | ~460 | Along with Target, Home Depot, Lowe’s — the parkway retail bench. |
| Flagler County government | Public | ~390 | Bunnell. Plus the Sheriff’s Office. |
| Landscape contractors | Trades | hundreds | ALSW, Yellowstone, VerdeGo — year-round yard work is an industry here. |
The weekday
Commute math from Town Center
10–25 min
Town Center / parkway
The local job. Still a car. 5 p.m. on Palm Coast Parkway is real.
~30–40 min
Daytona Beach
Hospitals, DSC main campus, the beachside hospitality bench, I-95 south.
~35–45 min
St. Augustine
North on US-1 or I-95. Tourism and services. Doable weekday.
75–90 min
Jacksonville
The metro career. Fine a few days a week. Brutal five days if I-95 is in a mood.
too far
Orlando
A big-trip airport and a theme-park weekend. Not a commute from a B street.
Desks that help
Workforce and training
Workforce · by appointment
CareerSource Brevard Flagler Volusia — Palm Coast
20 Airport Road, Suite E
Palm Coast, FL 32164
Mon–Thu 9 a.m.–6 p.m. · Fri 8 a.m.–5 p.m. · appointment only at this site
Résumés, unemployment claims help, training funds, hiring events. Walk-ins are easier at the Daytona Beach career center (359 Bill France Blvd). This desk is the Flagler one.
A.A. / A.S. / workforce
Daytona State College — Flagler/Palm Coast
3000 Palm Coast Parkway SE
Palm Coast, FL 32137
The local campus of DSC. Nursing and trades pipelines that actually feed AdventHealth and the shops. Daytona Beach is the main campus if the program isn’t here.
CTE · Flagler Schools
Flagler Technical College
5400 E. Highway 100
Palm Coast, FL 32164
District technical college: trades, certificates, adult ed. Next to the SR-100 education corridor. If you need an HVAC seat more than a bachelor’s, start here.
What is coming
A cable is not a campus
Google and DC Blox are building a subsea cable landing in Town Center — Florida’s first direct Europe link in a generation, aimed at 2027. That is infrastructure. It is not a promise that your neighbor will hire software engineers next quarter. Treat press releases as press releases.
Flagler sits in Florida’s High-Tech Corridor on a map. On the ground, the hiring you can walk into is still AdventHealth, the district, the resorts, and the trades. Remote work is how a lot of newcomers actually make the mortgage.
The fork
Who this works for
Come if the job is a hospital, a classroom, a trade, a hotel, a laptop, or a few days in Daytona or St. Augustine. Keep looking if the household needs downtown Jacksonville five mornings a week and hates I-95.