99% of Hopkinton’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave Hopkinton for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Manchester (17%), Dubuque (10%) and Cedar Rapids (9%). Half commute less than 16 miles.
The short version on getting to work from Hopkinton
Hopkinton is a place people come home to
There are 53 jobs based in Hopkinton, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Hopkinton has about 470 people in it, 30% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Hopkinton and Manchester trade workers both ways
Manchester is the top workplace for Hopkinton residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Hopkinton come from (11% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 258 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Hopkinton quiets down on a workday
On a workday 256 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 51 people come in from elsewhere.
About 470 people are in Hopkinton on a workday afternoon, 30% fewer than live here.
0.21 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
17% of working residents work in Manchester
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Hopkinton clocks in
17% of workers
10% of workers
9% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Half of Hopkinton commutes less than 16 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 15% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
What the 53 jobs in Hopkinton are
53 jobs are based in Hopkinton. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Hopkinton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hopkinton, 2013 → 2023: 85 → 53. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
About 22 minutes each way, longer than most of Iowa
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hopkinton workers work from home, vs 11% across Iowa. Their commute is the hallway.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
- Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
More of Hopkinton
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hopkinton, from the people who make the trip.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.