Haverhill has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Jobs and income earn Haverhill B+; getting around on foot earns it B. Employers in Haverhill report 235 jobs, and 949 of its residents work somewhere. Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers, next to 16% for Florida as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Haverhill at work: what stands out
The four measures behind Haverhill’s grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Haverhill is better than 66% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Haverhill’s grade up (ahead of 87% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (4.7%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Haverhill could be anywhere from C+ to A.
A workday in Haverhill: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 944 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 230 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Haverhill on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
19% of working residents work in West Palm Beach
Where Haverhill clocks in
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.
Goods, not services: 52% of the jobs in Haverhill
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Haverhill, 2013 → 2023: 148 → 235. 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 Haverhill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Haverhill spends getting to work: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Haverhill workers work from home, vs 16% across Florida. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,358 commuters (the 5% who work from home are left out). Across Florida: 83% drive alone, 1% 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 it is to work from Haverhill
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.
The commute in Haverhill is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Haverhill is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 3.6% across Florida.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,433 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all 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). 2.9% of Haverhill households have no vehicle (Florida 6.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Haverhill’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,100, Haverhill ranks 1,402nd of 5,328 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 92 | Atlantis FL | 2,140 | $117K | 3.6% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 94 | Pelican Marsh FL | 2,617 | $143K | 2.7% | 1.5% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 123 | Old Miakka FL | 1,818 | $137K | 2.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,400 | Elk Creek Township PA | 1,830 | $86K | 3.9% | 7.4% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,401 | Clancy MT | 1,874 | $125K | 4.8% | 3.2% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,402 | Haverhill FL | 2,314 | $80K | 8.6% | 4.7% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,403 | Clay Township IN | 1,661 | $92K | 5.3% | 1.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,404 | Sanbornton NH | 3,038 | $114K | 4.8% | 5.1% | 5% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,328 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Haverhill, the top three, the last and three more from Florida.
Work in the towns next to Haverhill
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Haverhill workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haverhill | – | B+ | B | 28 min | $79,787 |
| Stacey Street | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Lake Belvedere Estates | under 2% | C+ | B− | 24 min | $76,036 |
| Royal Palm Estates | under 2% | C+ | B− | 29 min | $60,532 |
| Westgate | under 2% | C− | A+ | 20 min | $51,604 |
Same-state neighbors only. Stacey Street: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Haverhill’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 Haverhill: questions
What is the median household income in Haverhill?
$79,787 (±$13,637) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $74,568 across Florida and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Haverhill?
8.6%, against 12.6% across Florida and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Haverhill?
28 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Florida and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Haverhill work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are West Palm Beach (19%, 4 mi), Palm Springs (6%, 4 mi), Palm Beach Gardens (6%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Haverhill walkable?
Haverhill is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 12.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Haverhill without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Haverhill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Haverhill
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.