Photo: Botteville · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Danvers are higher than in 90% of U.S. towns
Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 1.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 47.9 in Boston. The poverty rate is 4.8%; Massachusetts has 10.0%. For jobs and income Danvers is better than 88% of U.S. towns (A); for walkability it is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns (A).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Danvers
Danvers is where the jobs are
Danvers has 24,557 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Danvers draws workers from far and wide
The 24,557 jobs in Danvers are filled from a wide area. Danvers’ own residents hold 8% and the ten next-biggest home towns 35%; the other 57% come from many towns beyond those. 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.
Where Danvers’ Jobs & income grade comes from
Job access by car holds Danvers’ grade up (ahead of 92% 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 fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Danvers could be anywhere from A− to A+.
The workday shuffle in and out of Danvers
On a workday 11,784 residents head out to work, 1,901 work right here, and 22,656 people come in from elsewhere.
About 40,000 people are in Danvers on a workday afternoon, 37% more than live here.
1.8 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
The daily trip into Danvers
Where Danvers clocks in
14% of workers
8% of workers
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.
What Danvers’ employers do
24,557 jobs are based in Danvers.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Danvers, 2013 → 2023: 25,000 → 24,557. 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.
About 28 minutes to work from Danvers
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Danvers workers work from home, vs 19% across Massachusetts. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 12,507 commuters (the 19% 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.
The distance from Danvers 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.
Danvers is easy on foot, hard by bus
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 15,489 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 47% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 14% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 62% 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). 5.7% of Danvers households have no vehicle (Massachusetts 11.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Danvers’ commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Danvers is 296th among 1,467 U.S. towns of 20,000 to 39,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Hingham MA | 24,481 | $178K | 4.3% | 2.4% | 13% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Lexington MA | 34,648 | $238K | 4.7% | 2.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 38 | Reading MA | 25,803 | $166K | 3.2% | 3.3% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 294 | De Pere WI | 25,590 | $85K | 5.6% | 1.7% | 15% | A |
| 295 | Ramsey MN | 29,624 | $116K | 4.1% | 4.4% | 8% | A |
| 296 | Danvers MA | 29,211 | $125K | 4.8% | 4.7% | 14% | A |
| 297 | Bluffton SC | 36,807 | $111K | 4.3% | 2.2% | 19% | A |
| 298 | Fairfax VA | 26,772 | $132K | 9.1% | 3.3% | 7% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 1,467 | Barstow CA | 24,804 | $53K | 23.1% | 11.9% | 17% | 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 Massachusetts.
Work next door: 20% of Danvers’ workers
The biggest share goes to Beverly (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Danvers workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Danvers | – | A | A | 28 min | $125,395 |
| Middleton | 2% | A | C+ | 30 min | $167,402 |
| Peabody | 6% | A− | A− | 26 min | $96,657 |
| Salem | 4% | B | A+ | 29 min | $85,153 |
| Beverly | 8% | A− | A+ | 30 min | $106,044 |
| Topsfield | under 2% | A+ | A− | 28 min | $195,718 |
| Wenham | under 2% | A+ | B+ | 28 min | $194,781 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Danvers’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 Danvers: questions
What is the median household income in Danvers?
$125,395 (±$10,105) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,960 across Massachusetts and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Danvers?
4.8%, against 10.0% across Massachusetts and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Danvers?
28 minutes each way on average, against 29 across Massachusetts and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Danvers work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Boston (14%, 17 mi), Beverly (8%, 6 mi), Peabody (6%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Danvers walkable?
Danvers is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 10.9 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Danvers without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 14% 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.