Bigelow Corners has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Hardly any work in Bigelow Corners; the top destination outside it is Danbury (20%, 5 miles). There are 31 jobs in Bigelow Corners for 251 working residents. 7% of workers have no commute at all, next to 16% for Connecticut as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Bigelow Corners
Bigelow Corners is a place people come home to
There are 31 jobs based in Bigelow Corners, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Bigelow Corners has about 660 people in it, 25% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Bigelow Corners and Danbury trade workers both ways
Danbury is the top workplace for Bigelow Corners residents (20%) and also where the most people who work in Bigelow Corners come from (19% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Bigelow Corners workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 27 across Connecticut. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 54 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 251 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Bigelow Corners quiets down on a workday
On a workday 251 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 31 people come in from elsewhere.
About 660 people are in Bigelow Corners on a workday afternoon, 25% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where people from Bigelow Corners work
Where Bigelow Corners clocks in
20% of workers
8% of workers
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
From Bigelow Corners, about 34 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bigelow Corners workers work from home, vs 16% across Connecticut. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 228 commuters (the 7% who work from home are left out). Across Connecticut: 82% drive alone, 4% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Jobs in Bigelow Corners: what the 31 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bigelow Corners, 2013 → 2023: 52 → 31. 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.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bigelow Corners’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Bigelow Corners
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Bigelow Corners: questions
What is the median household income in Bigelow Corners?
$119,375 (±$16,500) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,781 across Connecticut and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bigelow Corners?
2.5%, against 10.0% across Connecticut and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bigelow Corners?
34 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Connecticut and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bigelow Corners work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Danbury (20%, 5 mi), New Fairfield (8%, 2 mi), Mount Pleasant (4%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Bigelow Corners without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bigelow Corners, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bigelow Corners
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.