Most of Danvers commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
58 jobs are based in Danvers for 495 working residents. Danvers grades A− for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Only 2% stay in Danvers for work; outside it, Bloomington is the main destination (28%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Danvers: the gist
Danvers is a place people come home to
There are 58 jobs based in Danvers, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Danvers has about 630 people in it, 41% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
28% of Danvers works in Bloomington
137 working residents, 28%, have their main job in Bloomington, 11 miles away. That’s 14 times as many as work in Danvers itself. The commute map ↓
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 495 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Danvers’ Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Danvers is better than 80% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input (4.8%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 63% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (1.8%) is left out: Danvers’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, Danvers could be anywhere from B to A.
How a workday changes Danvers
On a workday 485 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 48 people come in from elsewhere.
About 630 people are in Danvers on a workday afternoon, 41% 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.
The towns that employ Danvers’ residents
Where Danvers clocks in
28% of workers
22% 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 Danvers’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Danvers, 2013 → 2023: 71 → 58. 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 Danvers’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Danvers: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Danvers workers work from home, vs 16% across Illinois. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 430 commuters (the 18% who work from home are left out). Across Illinois: 78% drive alone, 7% 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 Danvers
About 23% 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.
For most of Danvers, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Danvers is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 10.8% across Illinois, on an EPA index of 4.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 522 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). 3.5% of Danvers households have no vehicle (Illinois 11.0%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Danvers’ commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400, Danvers comes 266th 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Tower Lakes IL | 1,201 | $154K | 2.0% | 2.8% | <1% | A+ |
| 20 | Third Lake IL | 1,103 | $150K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Lily Lake IL | 1,073 | $140K | 0.2% | 8.9% | 0% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 264 | Surf City NJ | 1,305 | $119K | 4.5% | 5.3% | 4% | A− |
| 265 | Deer Creek Township IL | 1,392 | $108K | 6.5% | 0.8% | 6% | A− |
| 266 | Danvers IL | 1,062 | $89K | 4.8% | 1.8% | 2% | A− |
| 267 | Avalon NJ | 1,205 | $139K | 4.8% | 3.9% | 18% | A− |
| 268 | Kindred ND | 1,044 | $105K | 3.5% | 1.6% | 9% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Danvers, the top three, the last and three more from Illinois.
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 Danvers: questions
What is the median household income in Danvers?
$88,854 (±$17,156) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $83,390 across Illinois and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Danvers?
4.8%, against 11.8% across Illinois and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Danvers?
26 minutes each way on average, against 28 across Illinois and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Danvers work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bloomington (28%, 11 mi), Normal (22%, 10 mi), Allin Township (3%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Danvers walkable?
Danvers is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Danvers without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Danvers, from the people who make the trip.
More of Danvers
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.