Work & commute · Egremont

Work & commute in Egremont, MA

Most working residents leave Egremont for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Great Barrington (16%), Sheffield (7%) and Pittsfield (5%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

25 of 529 working residents

Typical commute

22 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

44 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

30%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 504 Egremont residents head out of town to work, 25 work right here, and 254 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Egremont.

504live here, work elsewhere

25live and work here

254work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Egremont goes to work

Great Barrington6.6 mi away

16%86

Sheffield6.5 mi away

7%39

Pittsfield21.4 mi away

5%29

Egremont (in town)right here

5%25

Boston124.8 mi away

3%17

Alford5.6 mi away

3%17

Worcester84 mi away

3%14

Stockbridge10.8 mi away

2%13

Salisbury, CT13 mi away

2%12

Lenox16.2 mi away

2%12

Everywhere elseother towns and states

50%265

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

How far

How far Egremont commutes

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

33%

20%

14%

33%

33%Under 10 mi

20%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

33%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Egremont is a commuter town

0.53jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Egremont are

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

Jobs based in Egremont

279 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)6%

Trade, transport & utilities6%

Services (health, schools, offices…)87%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month52%

Jobs Egremont residents hold

529 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less22%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month56%

+105%

Jobs based in Egremont, 2013 → 2023: 136 → 279. 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.