Work & commute · Oak Bluffs

Work & commute in Oak Bluffs, MA

About one in 3 of Oak Bluffs’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are Edgartown (12%), Tisbury (11%) and Boston (6%). Half commute less than 5 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

29%

462 of 1,612 working residents

Typical commute

5 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

13 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,150 Oak Bluffs residents head out of town to work, 462 work right here, and 1,562 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Oak Bluffs.

1,150live here, work elsewhere

462live and work here

1,562work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Oak Bluffs goes to work

Oak Bluffs (in town)right here

29%462

Edgartown6.8 mi away

12%186

Tisbury3.4 mi away

11%182

Boston64.9 mi away

6%99

West Tisbury6.8 mi away

6%96

Chilmark15.7 mi away

2%35

Falmouth9.8 mi away

1%21

Aquinnah16.3 mi away

1%15

Cambridge69.8 mi away

1%14

New York, NY184.6 mi away

1%14

Everywhere elseother towns and states

30%488

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

How far

How far Oak Bluffs commutes

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

60%

29%

60%Under 10 mi

5%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

29%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Oak Bluffs is balanced between jobs and homes

1.26jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.26 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Oak Bluffs are

2,024 jobs are based in Oak Bluffs. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Oak Bluffs’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Oak Bluffs

2,024 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities10%

Services (health, schools, offices…)79%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month15%

Over $3,333 a month72%

Jobs Oak Bluffs residents hold

1,612 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month17%

Over $3,333 a month68%

+17%

Jobs based in Oak Bluffs, 2013 → 2023: 1,731 → 2,024. 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.