Photo: John Phelan · CC BY-SA 4.0Warren has higher household incomes than 92% of U.S. towns
Warren grades B+ for jobs and income and B for walkability. The poverty rate is 6.7%, next to 10.0% for Connecticut as a whole. Only 8% stay in Warren for work; outside it, New Milford is the main destination (8%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Warren, in brief
How Warren earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Warren is better than 72% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Warren’s grade up ($134,583, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 32% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (2.8%) is left out: Warren’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, Warren could be anywhere from B to A−.
Who leaves Warren for work, and who comes in
On a workday 588 residents head out to work, 48 work right here, and 119 people come in from elsewhere.
About 920 people are in Warren on a workday afternoon, 34% fewer than live here.
0.26 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 Warren’s working residents head each day
Where Warren clocks in
8% of workers
5% 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.
In Warren, 33% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
167 jobs are based in Warren.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Warren, 2013 → 2023: 147 → 167. 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 Warren’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 31 minutes each way for Warren’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Warren workers work from home, vs 16% across Connecticut. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 634 commuters (the 16% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Warren
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.
Getting around Warren: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Warren is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.1% across Connecticut, on an EPA index of 5.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 754 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). 1.0% of Warren households have no vehicle (Connecticut 8.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Warren’s commuters take a bus or train.
Warren is 920th of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 160 | Bridgewater CT | 1,677 | $159K | 3.0% | 3.6% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 434 | Litchfield CT | 1,220 | $110K | 6.1% | 6.5% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 546 | Stonington CT | 1,017 | $109K | 5.1% | 5.4% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 918 | Leetsdale PA | 1,102 | $66K | 5.7% | 4.8% | 7% | B+ |
| 919 | Dalton PA | 1,296 | $96K | 7.8% | 0.4% | 1% | B+ |
| 920 | Warren CT | 1,389 | $135K | 6.7% | 2.8% | 8% | B+ |
| 921 | Little Mackinaw Township IL | 1,433 | $90K | 5.6% | 3.0% | 5% | B+ |
| 922 | Washington Township IN | 1,124 | $74K | 1.5% | 3.1% | 5% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Warren, the top three, the last and three more from Connecticut.
Next door is work for 13% of Warren
The biggest share goes to Litchfield (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Warren workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warren | – | B+ | B | 31 min | $134,583 |
| Litchfield | 5% | B+ | B+ | 25 min | $102,609 |
| Kent | 3% | B | A− | 20 min | $96,064 |
| Washington | 5% | B | A− | 26 min | $101,549 |
| New Preston | under 3% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Cornwall | under 3% | B | A− | 30 min | $128,864 |
Same-state neighbors only. New Preston: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Warren’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 Warren: questions
What is the median household income in Warren?
$134,583 (±$33,453) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,781 across Connecticut and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Warren?
6.7%, against 10.0% across Connecticut and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Warren?
31 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Connecticut and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Warren work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New Milford (8%, 10 mi), Litchfield (5%, 8 mi), Washington (5%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Warren walkable?
Warren is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Warren without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Warren, from the people who make the trip.
More of Warren
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.