91% of Tewksbury’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave Tewksbury for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Boston (10%), Lowell (5%) and Woburn (4%). Half commute less than 12 miles.
What kind of work town is Tewksbury?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
Tewksbury makes things: 29% of its jobs are in goods
15,232 jobs are based in Tewksbury. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Tewksbury’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tewksbury, 2013 → 2023: 15,043 → 15,232. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 14,032 residents head out to work, 1,454 work right here, and 13,778 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.98 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
10% of working residents work in Boston
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Tewksbury clocks in
10% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Half of Tewksbury commutes less than 12 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
About 30 minutes each way, about the MA average
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tewksbury workers work from home, vs 19% across Massachusetts. Their commute is the hallway.
13% of Tewksbury works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Lowell (5%). Darker towns draw more of Tewksbury’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
- Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
More of Tewksbury
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tewksbury, from the people who make the trip.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.