Burkeville Covered Bridge · Photo: John Phelan · CC BY-SA 4.0Conway has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Conway has 213 jobs for 721 working residents. For jobs and income Conway is better than 69% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (B−). Working from home is the commute for 29% of workers, where Massachusetts as a whole has 19%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Conway stands out on work
Conway is a place people come home to
There are 213 jobs based in Conway, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Conway has about 1,200 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of Conway works from home
29% of Conway workers work from home, against 19% across Massachusetts. Time on the road ↓
Commutes from Conway are quick
The average trip to work takes 24 minutes, against 29 across Massachusetts. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Massachusetts worker. Time on the road ↓
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 721 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Conway’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Conway’s grade up (4.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 28% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (2.4%) is left out: Conway’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, Conway could be anywhere from B to A−.
Who works in Conway, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 688 residents head out to work, 33 work right here, and 180 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Conway on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
How long Conway spends getting to work: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Conway workers work from home, vs 19% across Massachusetts. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 642 commuters (the 29% 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.
10% of working residents work in Northampton
Where Conway clocks in
10% of workers
7% of workers
7% 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 Conway’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Conway, 2013 → 2023: 250 → 213. 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 Conway’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Conway
About 22% 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.
Conway is a driving town
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 14.1% across Massachusetts, on an EPA index of 4.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 906 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). 1.1% of Conway households have no vehicle (Massachusetts 11.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Conway’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400, Conway ranks 1,273rd of 6,085 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 589 | Whately MA | 1,622 | $117K | 5.4% | 4.7% | 6% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 709 | Otis MA | 1,610 | $109K | 1.2% | 6.2% | 10% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 744 | Wales MA | 1,833 | $89K | 5.1% | 5.5% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,271 | Woodville OH | 1,976 | $83K | 3.1% | 5.5% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,272 | Preemption Township IL | 1,637 | $86K | 5.6% | 0.7% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,273 | Conway MA | 1,750 | $97K | 4.4% | 2.4% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,274 | Jackson Township OH | 1,562 | $93K | 6.1% | 0.3% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,275 | Miami Township OH | 2,130 | $74K | 4.6% | 2.2% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Conway, the top three, the last and three more from Massachusetts.
13% of Conway works in a town next door
The biggest share goes to Deerfield (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Conway workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conway | – | B+ | B− | 24 min | $97,250 |
| Shelburne | 2% | C+ | A− | 29 min | $83,000 |
| Deerfield | 7% | A− | A | 18 min | $106,136 |
| Goshen | under 3% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| Whately | under 3% | A− | D | 23 min | $116,563 |
| Ashfield | 4% | C+ | C | 30 min | $80,833 |
| Buckland | under 3% | C+ | A− | 31 min | $82,877 |
Same-state neighbors only. Goshen: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Conway’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 Conway: questions
What is the median household income in Conway?
$97,250 (±$10,675) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,960 across Massachusetts and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Conway?
4.4%, against 10.0% across Massachusetts and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Conway?
24 minutes each way on average, against 29 across Massachusetts and 26 nationally. 29% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Conway work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Northampton (10%, 13 mi), Deerfield (7%, 5 mi), Greenfield (7%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Conway walkable?
Conway is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Conway without a car?
0% 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 Conway, from the people who make the trip.
More of Conway
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.