Work & commute · Cheshire

Work & commute in Cheshire, CT

Most working residents leave Cheshire for work: only 13% work in town. The top destinations are New Haven (11%), Wallingford (5%) and Waterbury (5%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

13%

1,805 of 13,666 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 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 11,861 Cheshire residents head out of town to work, 1,805 work right here, and 14,489 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cheshire.

11,861live here, work elsewhere

1,805live and work here

14,489work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cheshire goes to work

Cheshire (in town)right here

13%1,805

New Haven13.9 mi away

11%1,482

Wallingford6.3 mi away

5%636

Waterbury7.6 mi away

5%616

Hamden8 mi away

4%562

Hartford21 mi away

3%465

Meriden5.9 mi away

3%457

Southington6.7 mi away

3%430

New York, NY79.7 mi away

3%424

North Haven9.3 mi away

2%325

Everywhere elseother towns and states

47%6,464

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

How far

How far Cheshire commutes

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

36%

43%

14%

36%Under 10 mi

43%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

7%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cheshire is balanced between jobs and homes

1.19jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.19 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Cheshire are

16,294 jobs are based in Cheshire. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cheshire’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Cheshire

16,294 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities39%

Services (health, schools, offices…)43%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month65%

Jobs Cheshire residents hold

13,666 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)71%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month15%

Over $3,333 a month74%

+13%

Jobs based in Cheshire, 2013 → 2023: 14,476 → 16,294. 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.