Photo: Don Ramey Logan · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Edgartown have higher incomes than those in 90% of U.S. towns
About one in three stay in Edgartown for work; outside it, Oak Bluffs is the main destination (14%, 7 miles). The poverty rate is 4.7%, where Massachusetts as a whole has 10.0%. Jobs and income earn Edgartown B; getting around on foot earns it A+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Edgartown, in a few figures
Commutes from Edgartown are quick
The average trip to work takes 12 minutes, against 29 across Massachusetts. That’s about 130 hours a year less on the road than the typical Massachusetts worker. Time on the road ↓
Most Edgartown residents work close to home
64% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
Edgartown’s workforce skews older
36% of Edgartown’s working residents are 55 or older. The jobs ↓
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.
The figures behind Edgartown’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Edgartown is better than 56% of U.S. towns, #230 of 283 in Massachusetts. Household income holds Edgartown’s grade up ($125,236, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Edgartown could be anywhere from C to A−.
Getting to work from Edgartown takes about 12 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Edgartown workers work from home, vs 19% across Massachusetts. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,171 commuters (the 26% 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 Edgartown goes to work
About 25% 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.
68% of the jobs in Edgartown pay over $3,333 a month
1,924 jobs are based in Edgartown.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Edgartown, 2013 → 2023: 1,626 → 1,924. 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 Edgartown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in Edgartown, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,224 residents head out to work, 597 work right here, and 1,327 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.06 per resident).
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 places Edgartown commutes to
Where Edgartown clocks in
14% 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.
Edgartown is more walkable than 96% of U.S. towns
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,917 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 95% 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 15.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 96% 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). 0.0% of Edgartown households have no vehicle (Massachusetts 11.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Edgartown’s commuters take a bus or train.
Edgartown is 1,732nd of 3,612 U.S. towns of 3,800 to 7,400 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 38 | Lincoln MA | 6,925 | $175K | 2.3% | 2.2% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 99 | Hopedale MA | 6,066 | $116K | 2.9% | 1.6% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 105 | West Newbury MA | 4,709 | $180K | 1.6% | 2.4% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,730 | Laurel MT | 7,205 | $68K | 10.0% | 2.4% | 18% | B |
| 1,731 | Lafayette OR | 4,705 | $98K | 5.5% | 7.8% | 1% | B |
| 1,732 | Edgartown MA | 5,446 | $125K | 4.7% | 5.4% | 33% | B |
| 1,733 | Paradise Hills NM | 4,591 | $73K | 11.1% | 4.3% | 1% | B |
| 1,734 | Williamston MI | 3,810 | $71K | 9.2% | 4.3% | 8% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,612 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Edgartown, the top three, the last and three more from Massachusetts.
Work next door: 19% of Edgartown’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Edgartown workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edgartown | – | B | A+ | 12 min | $125,236 |
| Oak Bluffs | 14% | B− | A | 13 min | $145,196 |
| West Tisbury | 5% | B | B− | 17 min | $182,750 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Oak Bluffs. Darker towns draw more of Edgartown’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 Edgartown: questions
What is the median household income in Edgartown?
$125,236 (±$32,696) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,960 across Massachusetts and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Edgartown?
4.7%, against 10.0% across Massachusetts and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Edgartown?
12 minutes each way on average, against 29 across Massachusetts and 26 nationally. 26% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Edgartown work?
33% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oak Bluffs (14%, 7 mi), Tisbury (11%, 10 mi), Boston (6%, 72 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Edgartown walkable?
Edgartown is more walkable than 96% of U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 12.3 out of 20, and 13% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Edgartown without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Edgartown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Edgartown
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.