Work & commute · Peabody

Work & commute in Peabody, MA

Most working residents leave Peabody for work: only 13% work in town. The top destinations are Boston (15%), Danvers (6%) and Beverly (5%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

13%

3,371 of 25,580 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

26 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 22,209 Peabody residents head out of town to work, 3,371 work right here, and 18,051 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Peabody.

22,209live here, work elsewhere

3,371live and work here

18,051work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Peabody goes to work

Boston14.1 mi away

15%3,773

Peabody (in town)right here

13%3,371

Danvers2.9 mi away

6%1,654

Beverly6.5 mi away

5%1,273

Salem4.3 mi away

5%1,152

Lynn4.2 mi away

4%1,082

Woburn10 mi away

3%715

Cambridge13.3 mi away

3%644

Burlington12 mi away

2%473

Wakefield5.3 mi away

2%404

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%11,039

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

How far

How far Peabody commutes

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

49%

41%

49%Under 10 mi

41%10–24 mi

7%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Peabody is balanced between jobs and homes

0.84jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.84 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Peabody are

21,422 jobs are based in Peabody. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Peabody’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Peabody

21,422 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities31%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month62%

Jobs Peabody residents hold

25,580 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month18%

Over $3,333 a month70%

+6%

Jobs based in Peabody, 2013 → 2023: 20,305 → 21,422. 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.