Work & commute · Beverly

Work & commute in Beverly, MA

Most working residents leave Beverly for work: only 19% work in town. The top destinations are Boston (17%), Danvers (6%) and Salem (5%). Half commute less than 12 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

19%

3,814 of 19,564 working residents

Typical commute

12 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

22%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 15,750 Beverly residents head out of town to work, 3,814 work right here, and 19,046 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Beverly.

15,750live here, work elsewhere

3,814live and work here

19,046work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Beverly goes to work

Beverly (in town)right here

19%3,814

Boston17.7 mi away

17%3,400

Danvers5.5 mi away

6%1,105

Salem4.8 mi away

5%956

Peabody6.5 mi away

4%711

Cambridge18.7 mi away

3%660

Gloucester9.5 mi away

3%515

Lynn8.2 mi away

2%488

Ipswich9.6 mi away

2%354

Woburn16.4 mi away

2%321

Everywhere elseother towns and states

37%7,240

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

How far

How far Beverly commutes

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

46%

43%

46%Under 10 mi

43%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Beverly is balanced between jobs and homes

1.17jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.17 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Beverly are

22,860 jobs are based in Beverly. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Beverly’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Beverly

22,860 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities10%

Services (health, schools, offices…)75%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month17%

Over $3,333 a month70%

Jobs Beverly residents hold

19,564 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)74%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month16%

Over $3,333 a month73%

+6%

Jobs based in Beverly, 2013 → 2023: 21,567 → 22,860. 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.