Work & commute · Middletown

Work & commute in Middletown, CT

Most working residents leave Middletown for work: only 17% work in town. The top destinations are Hartford (9%), New Haven (6%) and Meriden (4%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

17%

3,730 of 21,697 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

14%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 17,967 Middletown residents head out of town to work, 3,730 work right here, and 21,175 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Middletown.

17,967live here, work elsewhere

3,730live and work here

21,175work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Middletown goes to work

Middletown (in town)right here

17%3,730

Hartford15.1 mi away

9%1,861

New Haven21.5 mi away

6%1,298

Meriden7.2 mi away

4%764

Wallingford9.9 mi away

3%725

Cromwell4.7 mi away

3%599

East Hartford14.9 mi away

3%573

Rocky Hill7.5 mi away

3%561

New Britain11.1 mi away

2%508

Berlin7.4 mi away

2%427

Everywhere elseother towns and states

49%10,651

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

How far

How far Middletown commutes

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

38%

46%

11%

38%Under 10 mi

46%10–24 mi

11%25–50 mi

6%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Middletown is balanced between jobs and homes

1.15jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.15 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Middletown are

24,905 jobs are based in Middletown. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Middletown’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Middletown

24,905 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)64%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month69%

Jobs Middletown residents hold

21,697 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month69%

+4%

Jobs based in Middletown, 2013 → 2023: 23,924 → 24,905. 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.