Work & commute · Somers

Work & commute in Somers, CT

Most working residents leave Somers for work: only 11% work in town. The top destinations are Enfield (10%), Springfield (9%) and Hartford (8%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

11%

499 of 4,618 working residents

Typical commute

14 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 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 4,119 Somers residents head out of town to work, 499 work right here, and 1,326 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Somers.

4,119live here, work elsewhere

499live and work here

1,326work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Somers goes to work

Somers (in town)right here

11%499

Enfield5.3 mi away

10%468

Springfield, MA9.6 mi away

9%395

Hartford19.6 mi away

8%386

Windsor14.1 mi away

6%287

Bloomfield18 mi away

3%117

East Hartford17.9 mi away

2%100

Manchester15.5 mi away

2%99

East Windsor8.4 mi away

2%93

Ellington5.4 mi away

2%89

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%2,085

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

How far

How far Somers commutes

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

37%

40%

13%

11%

37%Under 10 mi

40%10–24 mi

13%25–50 mi

11%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Somers is a commuter town

0.40jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Somers are

1,825 jobs are based in Somers. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Somers’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Somers

1,825 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month60%

Jobs Somers residents hold

4,618 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month17%

Over $3,333 a month71%

−5%

Jobs based in Somers, 2013 → 2023: 1,922 → 1,825. 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.