Work & commute · Whately

Work & commute in Whately, MA

Most working residents leave Whately for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Amherst Town (15%), Northampton (11%) and Deerfield (7%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

38 of 655 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

23 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

20%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 617 Whately residents head out of town to work, 38 work right here, and 1,404 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Whately.

617live here, work elsewhere

38live and work here

1,404work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Whately goes to work

Amherst Town8.3 mi away

15%95

Northampton7.4 mi away

11%72

Deerfield6.2 mi away

7%46

Whately (in town)right here

6%38

Greenfield12.9 mi away

5%34

Springfield22.4 mi away

5%33

Boston83.4 mi away

5%31

Hadley6.4 mi away

5%31

Sunderland5.5 mi away

4%27

Holyoke15.2 mi away

2%15

Everywhere elseother towns and states

36%233

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

How far

How far Whately commutes

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

48%

25%

20%

48%Under 10 mi

25%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Whately is a job hub

2.20jobs per working resident

A job hub

2.2 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Whately are

1,442 jobs are based in Whately. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Whately’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Whately

1,442 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)71%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)12%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month21%

Over $3,333 a month67%

Jobs Whately residents hold

655 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)72%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month62%

+8%

Jobs based in Whately, 2013 → 2023: 1,331 → 1,442. 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.