Photo: John Phelan · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of East Douglas commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Employers in East Douglas report 545 jobs for 1,424 working residents. Only 5% work in East Douglas itself; outside it, Worcester draws the most (12%, 14 miles). Working residents average 29 minutes each way, about the same as across Massachusetts.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes East Douglas
On a workday 1,349 residents head out to work, 75 work right here, and 470 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,100 people are in East Douglas 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where East Douglas’ working residents head each day
Where East Douglas clocks in
12% 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.
Jobs in East Douglas: what the 545 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in East Douglas, 2014 → 2024: 538 → 545. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs East Douglas’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 29 minutes each way for East Douglas’ commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of East Douglas workers work from home, vs 19% across Massachusetts. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,227 commuters (the 21% 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 it is to work from East Douglas
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, 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 East Douglas: questions
What is the median household income in East Douglas?
$138,309 (±$50,543) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,960 across Massachusetts and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in East Douglas?
8.8%, against 10.0% across Massachusetts and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from East Douglas?
29 minutes each way on average, against 29 across Massachusetts and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in East Douglas work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Worcester (12%, 14 mi), Douglas (8%, 3 mi), Northbridge (6%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around East Douglas without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from East Douglas, from the people who make the trip.
More of East Douglas
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.