Photo: John Phelan · CC BY-SA 4.0Haddam has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
1,273 jobs are based in Haddam; 4,101 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Haddam A−; getting around on foot earns it B−. Measured by household income, Haddam is ahead of 86% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Haddam apart on work
Where Haddam’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Haddam is better than 81% of U.S. towns, #77 of 155 in Connecticut. Household income holds Haddam’s grade up ($114,426, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (4.5%, 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, Haddam could be anywhere from B to A+.
Haddam on a workday afternoon
On a workday 3,810 residents head out to work, 291 work right here, and 982 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,100 people are in Haddam on a workday afternoon, 32% 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.
12% of working residents work in Middletown
Where Haddam clocks in
6% of workers
5% 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.
What Haddam’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Haddam, 2013 → 2023: 1,227 → 1,273. 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 Haddam’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 31 minutes each way for Haddam’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Haddam workers work from home, vs 16% across Connecticut. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,074 commuters (the 12% 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.
Half of Haddam commutes less than 17 miles
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.
Most trips from Haddam start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Haddam is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns, #93 of 155 in Connecticut. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 7.1% across Connecticut.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,617 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 75% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 75% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 54% 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). 5.2% of Haddam households have no vehicle (Connecticut 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Haddam’s commuters take a bus or train.
Haddam places 755th of 2,862 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 6,300 to 12,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Braddock VA | 6,536 | $212K | 0.9% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 230 | Granby CT | 11,963 | $120K | 3.2% | 2.3% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 253 | Prospect CT | 9,638 | $126K | 3.2% | 3.3% | 7% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 309 | Durham CT | 7,209 | $159K | 3.4% | 3.6% | 8% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 753 | Grosse Ile Township MI | 10,409 | $127K | 4.1% | 4.6% | 8% | A− |
| 754 | Chester Township NJ | 7,795 | $242K | 2.0% | 9.1% | 4% | A− |
| 755 | Haddam CT | 8,947 | $114K | 4.8% | 4.5% | 7% | A− |
| 756 | Peculiar MO | 6,365 | $95K | 4.9% | 4.1% | 5% | A− |
| 757 | Kirtland OH | 6,925 | $110K | 4.7% | 5.2% | 5% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,862 | 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 Haddam, the top three, the last and three more from Connecticut.
17% of Haddam works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Middletown (12%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Haddam workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haddam | – | A− | B− | 31 min | $114,426 |
| East Haddam | under 2% | A− | C− | 30 min | $107,861 |
| Durham | under 2% | A | C− | 23 min | $158,857 |
| Middletown | 12% | B | A | 23 min | $79,438 |
| Killingworth | 2% | A | C− | 24 min | $140,655 |
| East Hampton | under 2% | A | C | 30 min | $124,577 |
| Chester | 3% | B | A− | 28 min | $109,191 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Haddam’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 Haddam: questions
What is the median household income in Haddam?
$114,426 (±$15,147) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,781 across Connecticut and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Haddam?
4.8%, against 10.0% across Connecticut and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Haddam?
31 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Connecticut and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Haddam work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Middletown (12%, 7 mi), Hartford (6%, 21 mi), New Haven (5%, 23 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Haddam walkable?
Haddam is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 10.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Haddam without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 75% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Haddam, from the people who make the trip.
More of Haddam
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.