Photo: Joe Mabel (on Flickr as Joe Mabel from Seattle, US) · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Litchfield are higher than in 83% of U.S. towns
Only 3% work in Litchfield itself; outside it, Litchfield draws the most (15%, 0 miles). Poverty touches 6.1% of residents; Connecticut has 10.0%. Litchfield grades A− for jobs and income and A for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Litchfield stands out on work
Litchfield and Litchfield trade workers both ways
Litchfield is the top workplace for Litchfield residents (15%) and also where the most people who work in Litchfield come from (20% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Litchfield’s workforce skews older
38% of Litchfield’s working residents are 55 or older. 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 517 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Litchfield’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Litchfield is better than 85% of U.S. towns. Household income is its strongest input ($109,773, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 64% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (6.5%) is left out: Litchfield’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Litchfield could be anywhere from B− to A+.
Commuting out of Litchfield: the destinations
Where Litchfield clocks in
15% 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.
What the 553 jobs in Litchfield are
553 jobs are based in Litchfield.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Litchfield, 2013 → 2023: 540 → 553. 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 Litchfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Litchfield by day
On a workday 499 residents head out to work, 18 work right here, and 535 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.07 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.
About 29 minutes each way for Litchfield’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Litchfield workers work from home, vs 16% across Connecticut. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 475 commuters (the 17% 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.
Litchfield’s commute, mile by mile
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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Litchfield
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Litchfield is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 10.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across Connecticut, on an EPA index of 8.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 573 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). 5.3% of Litchfield households have no vehicle (Connecticut 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Litchfield’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Litchfield is 301st among 4,312 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 299 | Newcomb Township IL | 1,345 | $109K | 1.7% | 1.3% | 1% | A− |
| 300 | St. George Township MN | 1,295 | $111K | 4.7% | 0.2% | <1% | A− |
| 301 | Litchfield CT | 1,220 | $110K | 6.1% | 6.5% | 3% | A− |
| 302 | Baltic SD | 1,344 | $108K | 1.2% | 2.7% | 2% | A− |
| 303 | Nekimi WI | 1,335 | $97K | 5.0% | 3.3% | 1% | A− |
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| 378 | Stonington CT | 1,017 | $109K | 5.1% | 5.4% | 3% | A− |
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| 437 | Scotland CT | 1,591 | $100K | 4.8% | 2.8% | 6% | A− |
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| 640 | Warren CT | 1,389 | $135K | 6.7% | 2.8% | 8% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Litchfield, the top three, the last and three more from Connecticut.
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 Litchfield: questions
What is the median household income in Litchfield?
$109,773 (±$24,030) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,781 across Connecticut and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Litchfield?
6.1%, against 10.0% across Connecticut and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Litchfield?
29 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Connecticut and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Litchfield work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Litchfield (15%, 0 mi), Torrington (8%, 7 mi), Waterbury (7%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Litchfield walkable?
Litchfield is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.0 out of 20, and 11% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Litchfield without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Litchfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Litchfield
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.