Photo: John Phelan · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Carver commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Jobs and income earn Carver B+; getting around on foot earns it C−. Carver has 2,202 jobs, against 5,874 working residents. Only 7% work in Carver; the top destination outside it is Plymouth (14%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Carver, in brief
Carver makes and builds things
36% of the jobs based in Carver are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Carver residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 17%. The jobs ↓
Carver empties out on a workday
About 8,300 people are in Carver on a workday afternoon, 31% fewer than the 12,000 who live here: 5,400 head out to work and 1,800 come in. Day and night ↓
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.
Where Carver’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Carver is better than 66% of U.S. towns, #203 of 283 in Massachusetts. Household income holds Carver’s grade up ($91,250, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (4.4%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Carver could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Goods, not services: 36% of the jobs in Carver
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Carver, 2013 → 2023: 1,746 → 2,202. 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 Carver’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Carver quiets down on a workday
On a workday 5,437 residents head out to work, 437 work right here, and 1,765 people come in from elsewhere.
About 8,300 people are in Carver 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.
Where Carver’s working residents head each day
Where Carver clocks in
14% of workers
11% 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.
The trip to work from Carver: about 33 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Carver workers work from home, vs 19% across Massachusetts. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 5,008 commuters (the 14% who work from home are left out). Across Massachusetts: 75% drive alone, 8% 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 Carver goes to work
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.
In Carver, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Carver is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns, #264 of 283 in Massachusetts. Both inputs place Carver near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 5,815 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). 4.3% of Carver households have no vehicle (Massachusetts 11.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Carver’s commuters take a bus or train.
Carver next to U.S. towns of 8,000 to 16,000: 1,233rd of 2,695 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
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| 25 | Weston MA | 11,729 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Norwell MA | 11,546 | $189K | 2.7% | 1.9% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 82 | Georgetown MA | 8,577 | $152K | 3.8% | 1.7% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,231 | Bradley IL | 15,214 | $67K | 7.7% | 2.9% | 14% | B+ |
| 1,232 | Saline MI | 9,001 | $88K | 5.8% | 6.3% | 11% | B+ |
| 1,233 | Carver MA | 11,981 | $91K | 7.5% | 4.4% | 7% | B+ |
| 1,234 | Lowell IN | 11,853 | $84K | 5.5% | 4.9% | 9% | B+ |
| 1,235 | Salisbury MA | 9,530 | $93K | 5.0% | 6.9% | 10% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,695 | Roma TX | 11,543 | $25K | 37.1% | 12.4% | 22% | 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 Carver, the top three, the last and three more from Massachusetts.
18% of Carver works in a town next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Carver workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carver | – | B+ | C− | 33 min | $91,250 |
| Middleborough | 2% | B+ | B | 31 min | $97,056 |
| Plymouth | 14% | B+ | A− | 31 min | $116,941 |
| Plympton | under 2% | B+ | D | 33 min | $126,736 |
| Wareham | 2% | B+ | B | 28 min | $90,383 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Plymouth. Darker towns draw more of Carver’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 Carver: questions
What is the median household income in Carver?
$91,250 (±$23,352) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,960 across Massachusetts and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Carver?
7.5%, against 10.0% across Massachusetts and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Carver?
33 minutes each way on average, against 29 across Massachusetts and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Carver work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Plymouth (14%, 7 mi), Boston (11%, 34 mi), Kingston (3%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Carver walkable?
Carver is more walkable than 23% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Carver without a car?
1% 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 Carver, from the people who make the trip.
More of Carver
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.