Work & commute · Phillipston

Work & commute in Phillipston, MA

Most working residents leave Phillipston for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Gardner (10%), Worcester (6%) and Athol (6%). Half commute less than 24 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

40 of 929 working residents

Typical commute

24 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 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 889 Phillipston residents head out of town to work, 40 work right here, and 136 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Phillipston.

889live here, work elsewhere

40live and work here

136work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Phillipston goes to work

Gardner8.5 mi away

10%97

Worcester26.4 mi away

6%59

Athol4.2 mi away

6%55

Fitchburg17.3 mi away

5%51

Templeton3.9 mi away

5%42

Phillipston (in town)right here

4%40

Leominster19.5 mi away

4%35

Boston60 mi away

3%27

Westminster12.5 mi away

3%24

Amherst Town22.5 mi away

2%23

Everywhere elseother towns and states

51%476

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

How far

How far Phillipston commutes

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

29%

24%

31%

16%

29%Under 10 mi

24%10–24 mi

31%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Phillipston is a commuter town

0.19jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Phillipston are

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

Jobs based in Phillipston

176 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)38%

Trade, transport & utilities23%

Services (health, schools, offices…)39%

$1,250 a month or less35%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs Phillipston residents hold

929 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)21%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month61%

−53%

Jobs based in Phillipston, 2013 → 2023: 374 → 176. 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.