Work & commute · Beacon Falls

Work & commute in Beacon Falls, CT

Most working residents leave Beacon Falls for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Waterbury (7%), New Haven (6%) and Shelton (6%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

111 of 3,136 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

33 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

20%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,025 Beacon Falls residents head out of town to work, 111 work right here, and 865 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Beacon Falls.

3,025live here, work elsewhere

111live and work here

865work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Beacon Falls goes to work

Waterbury8 mi away

7%204

New Haven11.3 mi away

6%189

Shelton10.6 mi away

6%184

Stratford16.9 mi away

5%149

Hartford29.4 mi away

4%124

Seymour4.3 mi away

4%117

Beacon Falls (in town)right here

4%111

New York, NY71 mi away

3%85

Danbury22.3 mi away

3%82

Oxford5 mi away

2%68

Everywhere elseother towns and states

58%1,823

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

How far

How far Beacon Falls commutes

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

31%

48%

15%

31%Under 10 mi

48%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

6%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Beacon Falls is a commuter town

0.31jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Beacon Falls are

976 jobs are based in Beacon Falls. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Beacon Falls’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Beacon Falls

976 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)43%

Trade, transport & utilities10%

Services (health, schools, offices…)47%

$1,250 a month or less9%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month70%

Jobs Beacon Falls residents hold

3,136 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month71%

+41%

Jobs based in Beacon Falls, 2013 → 2023: 692 → 976. 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.