Photo: Mbdfar · CC BY-SA 4.0Knollcrest has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
There are 79 jobs in Knollcrest, against 156 working residents. Hardly any work in Knollcrest itself; outside it, Danbury draws the most (13%, 7 miles). Working from home is the commute for 4% of workers; Connecticut has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Knollcrest
On a workday 156 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 79 people come in from elsewhere.
About 190 people are in Knollcrest on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
Where people from Knollcrest work
Where Knollcrest clocks in
13% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Knollcrest, 2013 → 2023: 56 → 79. 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 Knollcrest’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Knollcrest: about 48 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 15.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Knollcrest workers work from home, vs 16% across Connecticut. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 179 commuters (the 4% 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 many miles Knollcrest 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.
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 Knollcrest: questions
What is the median household income in Knollcrest?
$163,125 (±$144,921) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,781 across Connecticut and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Knollcrest?
8.6%, against 10.0% across Connecticut and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Knollcrest?
48 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Connecticut and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Knollcrest work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Danbury (13%, 7 mi), New Fairfield (7%, 2 mi), Stamford (6%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Knollcrest without a car?
5% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Knollcrest, from the people who make the trip.
More of Knollcrest
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.