Work & commute · Seymour

Work & commute in Seymour, CT

Most working residents leave Seymour for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Shelton (8%), New Haven (8%) and Stratford (7%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

725 of 7,842 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

32 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

16%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 7,117 Seymour residents head out of town to work, 725 work right here, and 3,355 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Seymour.

7,117live here, work elsewhere

725live and work here

3,355work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Seymour goes to work

Seymour (in town)right here

9%725

Shelton6.3 mi away

8%632

New Haven9.7 mi away

8%610

Stratford12.6 mi away

7%541

Bridgeport14.9 mi away

4%288

Derby4.1 mi away

3%268

Oxford5.3 mi away

3%264

Waterbury12.2 mi away

3%221

Trumbull10.2 mi away

3%199

Hartford33.5 mi away

2%164

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%3,930

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

How far

How far Seymour commutes

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

44%

38%

12%

44%Under 10 mi

38%10–24 mi

12%25–50 mi

5%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Seymour is a commuter town

0.52jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Seymour are

4,080 jobs are based in Seymour. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Seymour’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Seymour

4,080 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)39%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)46%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month64%

Jobs Seymour residents hold

7,842 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month69%

−3%

Jobs based in Seymour, 2013 → 2023: 4,187 → 4,080. 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.