96% of Chester Center’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave Chester Center for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Chester (10%), Essex (9%) and Hartford (6%). Half commute less than 16 miles.
What kind of work town is Chester Center?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
10% of working residents work in Chester
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Chester Center clocks in
10% of workers
9% of workers
6% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Chester Center quiets down on a workday
On a workday 763 residents head out to work, 31 work right here, and 536 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Chester Center on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
0.71 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Half of Chester Center commutes less than 16 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
What the 567 jobs in Chester Center are
567 jobs are based in Chester Center. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Chester Center’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Chester Center, 2013 → 2023: 803 → 567. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
About 25 minutes each way, about the CT average
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Chester Center workers work from home, vs 16% across Connecticut. Their commute is the hallway.
13% of Chester Center works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Chester (10%). Darker towns draw more of Chester Center’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
- Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
More of Chester Center
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Chester Center, from the people who make the trip.
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Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.