Work & commute · Danvers

Work & commute in Danvers, MA

Most working residents leave Danvers for work: only 14% work in town. The top destinations are Boston (14%), Beverly (8%) and Peabody (6%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

14%

1,901 of 13,685 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

28 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 11,784 Danvers residents head out of town to work, 1,901 work right here, and 22,656 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Danvers.

11,784live here, work elsewhere

1,901live and work here

22,656work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Danvers goes to work

Boston17 mi away

14%1,961

Danvers (in town)right here

14%1,901

Beverly5.5 mi away

8%1,053

Peabody2.9 mi away

6%792

Salem5.8 mi away

4%610

Lynn6.9 mi away

3%428

Woburn11.9 mi away

2%306

Cambridge16.2 mi away

2%282

Burlington13.7 mi away

2%212

Middleton3.8 mi away

2%212

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%5,928

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

How far

How far Danvers commutes

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

47%

42%

47%Under 10 mi

42%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Danvers is a job hub

1.79jobs per working resident

A job hub

1.8 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Danvers are

24,557 jobs are based in Danvers. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Danvers’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Danvers

24,557 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month64%

Jobs Danvers residents hold

13,685 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month16%

Over $3,333 a month72%

−2%

Jobs based in Danvers, 2013 → 2023: 25,000 → 24,557. 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.