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Work & commute in Cedar Crest · A commuter town

99% of Cedar Crest’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Cedar Crest for work: only 1% work in town. The top destinations are Marshfield (17%), Boston (14%) and Quincy (5%). Half commute less than 21 miles.

Work in town
1%
7 of 1,050 working residents
Typical commute
21 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
42 min
More than MA (29 min)
Work from home
23%
More than MA (19%)
Jobs based here
115
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Cedar Crest?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The commute map

17% of working residents work in Marshfield

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

Braintree Town: 31 residents work here (3%)Weymouth Town: 28 residents work here (3%)Quincy: 48 residents work here (5%)BrocktonBoston: 143 residents work here (14%)Plymouth: 47 residents work here (4%)BourneMiddleboroughHanover: 21 residents work here (2%)Marshfield: 176 residents work here (17%)Norwell: 27 residents work here (3%)Hingham: 25 residents work here (2%)KingstonPembroke: 30 residents work here (3%)Green HarborCedar CrestOcean Bluff-Brant RockMarshfieldBostonQuincyPlymouthBraintree TownPembrokeCedar Crest
1
Marshfield3.7 mi away
17%176
2
Boston25.3 mi away
14%143
3
Quincy21.9 mi away
5%48
4
Plymouth13.3 mi away
4%47
5
Braintree Town19.6 mi away
3%31
6
Pembroke7.4 mi away
3%30
7
Weymouth Town17.1 mi away
3%28
8
Norwell10.1 mi away
3%27
9
Hingham15.2 mi away
2%25
10
Hanover10.5 mi away
2%21
Everywhere elseother towns and states
45%474
The top trips

Where Cedar Crest clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

Time on the road

About 42 minutes each way, longer than most of Massachusetts

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

A year of commuting
321 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.4 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Cedar Crest42 min
Massachusetts29 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
23%

of Cedar Crest workers work from home, vs 19% across Massachusetts. Their commute is the hallway.

About 2 in 10
Day and night

Cedar Crest quiets down on a workday

On a workday 1,043 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 108 people come in from elsewhere.

1,043live here, work elsewhere
7live and work here
108work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night1,700
Workday800
1,700live here− 1,000head out to work+ 110come in to work= 800on a workday

About 800 people are in Cedar Crest on a workday afternoon, 54% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.11jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

0.11 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.

How far

Half of Cedar Crest commutes less than 21 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi30 miMarshfield: 17% · 3.7 miBoston: 14% · 25.3 miQuincy: 5% · 21.9 miPlymouth: 4% · 13.3 miBraintree Town: 3% · 19.6 miPembroke: 3% · 7.4 miWeymouth Town: 3% · 17.1 miNorwell: 3% · 10.1 miHingham: 2% · 15.2 miHanover: 2% · 10.5 miMarshfield 17%Boston 14%Quincy 5%Plymouth 4%Braintree Town 3%Cedar Crest
Cedar CrestTop destinations (size = commuters)
29%Under 10 mi304 residents
28%10–24 mi296 residents
37%25–50 mi388 residents
6%Over 50 mi61 residents

Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.

The jobs

What the 115 jobs in Cedar Crest are

115 jobs are based in Cedar Crest. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cedar Crest’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Cedar CrestJobs Cedar Crest residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms10%10%
Trade, transport & utilities13%16%
Services: health, schools, offices77%74%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less23%13%
$1,251–$3,333 a month31%17%
Over $3,333 a month45%69%

Who does it

29 or younger30%21%
30 to 5434%49%
55 and older37%30%
+72%

Jobs based in Cedar Crest, 2013 → 2023: 67 → 115. 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.

Next door

Cedar Crest and the towns next door

Darker towns draw more of Cedar Crest’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

How to read these numbers

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.
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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.

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