A job hub: Dayville has 3.9 jobs per working resident, and 1,102 people come in to work
Only 2% stay in Dayville for work; outside it, Killingly is the main destination (23%, 2 miles). Dayville has 1,107 jobs; 282 of its residents have a job. Commuters spend 30 minutes getting to work on average, where Connecticut has 27 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Dayville apart on work
Dayville fills up on a workday
Dayville has 1,107 jobs, 3.9 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,300 people are in town, more than double the 450 who live here. Day and night ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
51% of the jobs in Dayville are in trade, transport and utilities, against 19% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
34% of the jobs based in Dayville are held by workers 29 or younger, against 27% of Dayville’s own working residents. The jobs ↓
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 282 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How many people are in Dayville by day
On a workday 277 residents head out to work and 5 work right here.
About 1,300 people are in Dayville on a workday afternoon, 183% more 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.
What Dayville’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dayville, 2013 → 2023: 1,423 → 1,107. 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 Dayville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the people who work in Dayville live
Where Dayville clocks in
23% 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.
How long Dayville spends getting to work: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dayville workers work from home, vs 16% across Connecticut. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 223 commuters (the 11% 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.
How far Dayville goes to work
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 Dayville: questions
What is the median household income in Dayville?
$66,707 (±$11,579) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,781 across Connecticut and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dayville?
2.4%, against 10.0% across Connecticut and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dayville?
30 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Connecticut and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dayville work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Killingly (23%, 2 mi), Putnam (8%, 4 mi), Plainfield (4%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Dayville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dayville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dayville
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.