Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Greenwich has some of the highest household incomes of any U.S. town
Measured by household income, Greenwich is among the highest-earning towns in the country. 6.1% of residents live below the poverty line, where Connecticut as a whole has 10.0%. Jobs and income earn Greenwich A−; getting around on foot earns it A+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Greenwich at work: what stands out
A lot of Greenwich workers cross into New York
27% of Greenwich workers work outside Connecticut, most of them in New York, the Census survey finds. The commute map ↓
Greenwich’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Greenwich is New York City, NY, 31 miles away as the crow flies. 20% of working residents (4,353) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Home offices are common in Greenwich
28% of Greenwich workers work from home, against 16% across Connecticut. Time on the road ↓
Most jobs here, and most residents’ jobs, pay over $40,000
77% of Greenwich’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, and so do 77% of the jobs based in Greenwich. 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.
What’s behind Greenwich’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Greenwich is better than 84% of U.S. towns, #67 of 155 in Connecticut. Household income holds Greenwich’s grade up ($206,130, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (6.0%, 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, Greenwich could be anywhere from A− to A.
20% of working residents work in New York City
Where Greenwich clocks in
20% of workers
11% of workers
3% 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 many miles Greenwich commutes
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.
How long Greenwich spends getting to work: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Greenwich workers work from home, vs 16% across Connecticut. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 21,041 commuters (the 28% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Greenwich
31,383 jobs are based in Greenwich.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Greenwich, 2013 → 2023: 31,933 → 31,383. 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 Greenwich’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Greenwich fills up on a workday
On a workday 16,225 residents head out to work, 5,973 work right here, and 25,410 people come in from elsewhere.
About 74,000 people are in Greenwich on a workday afternoon, 14% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.41 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Good to walk, short on transit: Greenwich
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Greenwich is more walkable than 96% of U.S. towns, #7 of 155 in Connecticut. Both inputs place Greenwich near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 29,171 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 58% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 18% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 4.9 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 84% 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). 4.0% of Greenwich households have no vehicle (Connecticut 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 17% of Greenwich’s commuters take a bus or train.
Greenwich places 181st of 698 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 45,000 to 87,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McLean VA | 49,627 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 2 | Lakeville MN | 79,270 | $139K | 2.9% | 2.0% | 11% | A+ |
| 3 | Fulshear TX | 64,630 | $187K | 1.6% | 2.8% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 116 | West Hartford CT | 64,242 | $130K | 6.3% | 4.1% | 14% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 166 | Milford CT | 53,606 | $111K | 5.1% | 4.4% | 20% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 177 | Fairfield CT | 66,262 | $172K | 4.7% | 5.9% | 18% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 179 | Morgan Hill CA | 45,625 | $164K | 4.1% | 5.3% | 13% | A− |
| 180 | Middletown Township NJ | 67,135 | $142K | 4.2% | 5.8% | 12% | A− |
| 181 | Greenwich CT | 64,801 | $206K | 6.1% | 6.0% | 27% | A− |
| 182 | Monroe Township NJ | 49,830 | $108K | 3.7% | 5.3% | 6% | A− |
| 183 | Beavercreek OH | 48,134 | $110K | 6.9% | 3.6% | 16% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 698 | Pahrump NV | 47,347 | $62K | 13.7% | 8.5% | 28% | 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 Greenwich, the top three, the last and three more from Connecticut.
The towns next door employ 13% of Greenwich
The biggest share goes to Stamford (11%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Greenwich’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 Greenwich: questions
What is the median household income in Greenwich?
$206,130 (±$13,918) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,781 across Connecticut and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Greenwich?
6.1%, against 10.0% across Connecticut and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Greenwich?
30 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Connecticut and 26 nationally. 28% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Greenwich work?
27% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (20%, 31 mi), Stamford (11%, 5 mi), Norwalk (3%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Greenwich walkable?
Greenwich is more walkable than 96% of U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 10.9 out of 20, and 21% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Greenwich without a car?
17% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 18% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Greenwich, from the people who make the trip.
More of Greenwich
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.