Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0Easton ranks among the highest-earning U.S. towns by household income
Measured by household income, Easton is among the highest-earning towns in the country. Poverty touches 6.9% of residents (Connecticut 10.0%). Easton grades A− for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Easton and work: the main findings
Easton workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 27 across Connecticut. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Easton is a place people come home to
There are 888 jobs based in Easton, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Easton has about 5,700 people in it, 27% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Three in four Easton workers earn over $40,000 a year
77% of Easton’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, the top earnings band in the Census data. 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.
Jobs & income in Easton: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Easton is better than 83% of U.S. towns, #70 of 155 in Connecticut. Household income holds Easton’s grade up ($222,604, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (4.8%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Easton could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
The trip to work from Easton: about 33 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Easton workers work from home, vs 16% across Connecticut. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,056 commuters (the 21% 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.
Easton on a workday afternoon
On a workday 2,806 residents head out to work, 184 work right here, and 704 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,700 people are in Easton on a workday afternoon, 27% fewer than live here.
0.30 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Jobs in Easton: what the 888 are
888 jobs are based in Easton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Easton, 2013 → 2023: 748 → 888. 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 Easton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
9% of working residents work in Stamford
Where Easton clocks in
9% of workers
8% 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.
Where in the region Easton works
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.
For most of Easton, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Easton is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns, #81 of 155 in Connecticut. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across Connecticut, on an EPA index of 6.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,883 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.7% of Easton households have no vehicle (Connecticut 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 5% of Easton’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Easton ranks: 674th of 3,026 U.S. towns of 5,500 to 10,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 245 | Prospect CT | 9,638 | $126K | 3.2% | 3.3% | 7% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 302 | Durham CT | 7,209 | $159K | 3.4% | 3.6% | 8% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 316 | Portland CT | 9,449 | $119K | 3.9% | 3.3% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 672 | Cambria NY | 5,727 | $112K | 5.0% | 3.8% | 5% | A− |
| 673 | Mukwonago WI | 8,544 | $98K | 4.2% | 4.5% | 12% | A− |
| 674 | Easton CT | 7,838 | $223K | 6.9% | 4.8% | 6% | A− |
| 675 | Magnolia TX | 8,095 | $79K | 5.0% | 2.4% | 7% | A− |
| 676 | Garden Home-Whitford OR | 6,979 | $98K | 5.9% | 4.0% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,026 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Easton, the top three, the last and three more from Connecticut.
The towns around Easton
The biggest share goes to Fairfield (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Easton workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easton | – | A− | B | 33 min | $222,604 |
| Stepney | under 4% | — | — | 37 min | — |
| Monroe | under 4% | A | B+ | 34 min | $157,250 |
| Fairfield | 7% | A− | A | 33 min | $172,432 |
| Weston | under 4% | A | B | 47 min | $250,000+ |
| Redding | under 4% | A− | B | 36 min | $186,060 |
| Trumbull | under 4% | A− | A− | 33 min | $163,073 |
| Tashua | under 4% | — | — | 32 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Stepney and Tashua: Census-designated places inside larger towns, graded as part of them. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Easton’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 Easton: questions
What is the median household income in Easton?
$222,604 (±$46,257) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,781 across Connecticut and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Easton?
6.9%, against 10.0% across Connecticut and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Easton?
33 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Connecticut and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Easton work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Stamford (9%, 18 mi), Bridgeport (8%, 8 mi), Fairfield (7%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Easton walkable?
Easton is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Easton without a car?
5% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Easton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Easton
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.