Work & commute · Sharon

Work & commute in Sharon, CT

Most working residents leave Sharon for work: only 18% work in town. The top destinations are Salisbury (9%), New York (4%) and North East (4%). Half commute less than 20 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

18%

151 of 836 working residents

Typical commute

20 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

19%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 685 Sharon residents head out of town to work, 151 work right here, and 934 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sharon.

685live here, work elsewhere

151live and work here

934work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sharon goes to work

Sharon (in town)right here

18%151

Salisbury8.8 mi away

9%77

New York, NY86.6 mi away

4%37

North East, NY7.7 mi away

4%33

Amenia, NY6 mi away

3%29

Hartford40.1 mi away

3%22

North Canaan13.5 mi away

3%21

New Haven46.7 mi away

2%17

Ridgefield37.6 mi away

2%13

Kent9.1 mi away

2%13

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%423

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

How far

How far Sharon commutes

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

37%

18%

31%

14%

37%Under 10 mi

18%10–24 mi

31%25–50 mi

14%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sharon is balanced between jobs and homes

1.30jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.30 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Sharon are

1,085 jobs are based in Sharon. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Sharon’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Sharon

1,085 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities7%

Services (health, schools, offices…)87%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month15%

Over $3,333 a month75%

Jobs Sharon residents hold

836 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month66%

+13%

Jobs based in Sharon, 2013 → 2023: 960 → 1,085. 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.