Photo: John Phelan · CC BY-SA 4.0Blue Hills has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Hardly any stay in Blue Hills for work; outside it, Hartford is the main destination (20%, 3 miles). Blue Hills has 728 jobs; 1,419 of its residents have a job. 6% of workers work from home; Connecticut has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Blue Hills stands out on work
Blue Hills makes and builds things
60% of the jobs based in Blue Hills are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Blue Hills residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 10%. The jobs ↓
Most Blue Hills residents work close to home
67% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. Only 7% work more than 50 miles away. How far ↓
Blue Hills and Hartford trade workers both ways
Hartford is the top workplace for Blue Hills residents (20%) and also where the most people who work in Blue Hills come from (14% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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.
A place that makes things: 60% of Blue Hills’ jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Blue Hills, 2013 → 2023: 846 → 728. 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 Blue Hills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Blue Hills
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.
Where the trip to work from Blue Hills ends
Where Blue Hills clocks in
20% of workers
7% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Blue Hills
On a workday 1,407 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 716 people come in from elsewhere.
About 990 people are in Blue Hills on a workday afternoon, 41% 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.
About 24 minutes to work from Blue Hills
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Blue Hills workers work from home, vs 16% across Connecticut. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 744 commuters (the 6% 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.
27% of Blue Hills works in a town next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Blue Hills workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Hills | – | — | — | 24 min | $63,512 |
| Hartford | 20% | C− | A+ | 23 min | $46,411 |
| Windsor | 7% | A− | A− | 21 min | $104,725 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Hartford. Darker towns draw more of Blue Hills’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Blue Hills: questions
What is the median household income in Blue Hills?
$63,512 (±$10,787) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,781 across Connecticut and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Blue Hills?
12.0%, against 10.0% across Connecticut and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Blue Hills?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Connecticut and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Blue Hills work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hartford (20%, 3 mi), Bloomfield (12%, 3 mi), Windsor (7%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Blue Hills without a car?
6% of commuters take transit and 21% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Blue Hills, from the people who make the trip.
More of Blue Hills
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.