Photo: John Phelan · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs, income and commuting in Pleasant Valley, CT
The average commute takes 24 minutes each way (Connecticut 27, U.S. 26). Home is the office for 27% of workers, against 16% across Connecticut. Only 2% work in Pleasant Valley itself; outside it, Barkhamsted draws the most (8%, 2 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The daily flow of workers through Pleasant Valley
On a workday 88 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 87 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 (0.99 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.
Where Pleasant Valley’s working residents head each day
Where Pleasant Valley clocks in
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 health care, schools and offices in Pleasant Valley
89 jobs are based in Pleasant Valley.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pleasant Valley, 2013 → 2023: 136 → 89. 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 Pleasant Valley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 24 minutes from Pleasant Valley
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pleasant Valley workers work from home, vs 16% across Connecticut. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 76 commuters (the 27% 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 far Pleasant Valley goes to work
About 16% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
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 Pleasant Valley: questions
What is the median household income in Pleasant Valley?
$76,991 (±$2,886) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,781 across Connecticut and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pleasant Valley?
3.7%, against 10.0% across Connecticut and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pleasant Valley?
24 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Connecticut and 26 nationally. 27% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pleasant Valley work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Barkhamsted (8%, 2 mi), Torrington (7%, 9 mi), Winchester (6%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Pleasant Valley without a car?
0% 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 Pleasant Valley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pleasant Valley
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.