Work & commute · Cornwall

Work & commute in Cornwall, CT

Most working residents leave Cornwall for work: only 14% work in town. The top destinations are North Canaan (6%), Salisbury (5%) and Torrington (4%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14%

70 of 516 working residents

Typical commute

22 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

32%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 446 Cornwall residents head out of town to work, 70 work right here, and 228 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cornwall.

446live here, work elsewhere

70live and work here

228work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cornwall goes to work

Cornwall (in town)right here

14%70

North Canaan12 mi away

6%30

Salisbury10.7 mi away

5%26

Torrington10.3 mi away

4%23

Hartford33.9 mi away

4%21

New York, NY87.8 mi away

4%20

Danbury32 mi away

3%16

Canaan8 mi away

3%16

Kent10.4 mi away

3%13

Sharon6.2 mi away

3%13

Everywhere elseother towns and states

52%268

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

How far

How far Cornwall commutes

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

28%

25%

35%

12%

28%Under 10 mi

25%10–24 mi

35%25–50 mi

12%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cornwall is a commuter town

0.58jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Cornwall are

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

Jobs based in Cornwall

298 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities5%

Services (health, schools, offices…)80%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month54%

Jobs Cornwall residents hold

516 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month60%

+4%

Jobs based in Cornwall, 2013 → 2023: 286 → 298. 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.