Work & commute · Plainville

Work & commute in Plainville, CT

Most working residents leave Plainville for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are Hartford (9%), Farmington (7%) and Bristol (7%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

914 of 8,809 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 7,895 Plainville residents head out of town to work, 914 work right here, and 7,553 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Plainville.

7,895live here, work elsewhere

914live and work here

7,553work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Plainville goes to work

Plainville (in town)right here

10%914

Hartford10.9 mi away

9%780

Farmington3.9 mi away

7%633

Bristol4.5 mi away

7%608

New Britain3.5 mi away

7%582

Southington4.8 mi away

6%502

West Hartford8.2 mi away

3%284

Berlin6.1 mi away

3%267

Newington6.4 mi away

3%224

Middletown13.4 mi away

2%215

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%3,800

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

How far

How far Plainville commutes

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

52%

36%

52%Under 10 mi

36%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Plainville is balanced between jobs and homes

0.96jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.96 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Plainville are

8,467 jobs are based in Plainville. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Plainville’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Plainville

8,467 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)29%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)51%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month60%

Jobs Plainville residents hold

8,809 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month69%

−7%

Jobs based in Plainville, 2013 → 2023: 9,138 → 8,467. 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.