Photo: ToddC4176 · CC BY-SA 3.0Egremont has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
30% of workers work from home, next to 19% for Massachusetts as a whole. Employers in Egremont report 279 jobs; 529 of its residents have a job. Egremont grades B for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Egremont, in a few figures
Egremont and Great Barrington trade workers both ways
Great Barrington is the top workplace for Egremont residents (16%) and also where the most people who work in Egremont come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Egremont workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 44 minutes each way, against 29 across Massachusetts. Over a year that’s about 337 hours of commuting, 115 more than the state’s typical worker. Every town next door averages less (21 to 31 minutes). Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
33% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 529 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Egremont earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Egremont is better than 56% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Egremont’s grade up ($101,458, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 23% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Egremont’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Egremont could be anywhere from C− to A−.
16% of working residents work in Great Barrington
Where Egremont clocks in
16% of workers
7% of workers
5% 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.
Commuting from Egremont: about 44 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Egremont workers work from home, vs 19% across Massachusetts. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 470 commuters (the 30% 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 Egremont goes to work
About 33% 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.
Egremont on a workday afternoon
On a workday 504 residents head out to work, 25 work right here, and 254 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Egremont on a workday afternoon, 18% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Egremont
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Egremont, 2013 → 2023: 136 → 279. 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 Egremont’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Most trips from Egremont start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Egremont is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 14.1% across Massachusetts, on an EPA index of 5.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 668 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). 0.8% of Egremont households have no vehicle (Massachusetts 11.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Egremont’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Egremont is 1,552nd among 5,400 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 435 | Whately MA | 1,622 | $117K | 5.4% | 4.7% | 6% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 524 | Otis MA | 1,610 | $109K | 1.2% | 6.2% | 10% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 588 | Westhampton MA | 1,618 | $100K | 6.5% | 7.7% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,550 | De Graff OH | 1,256 | $84K | 7.5% | 3.9% | 2% | B |
| 1,551 | South Macon Township IL | 1,401 | $78K | 6.1% | 1.7% | 10% | B |
| 1,552 | Egremont MA | 1,369 | $101K | 8.0% | 0.0% | 5% | B |
| 1,553 | Orangeville NY | 1,249 | $86K | 4.8% | 2.9% | 4% | B |
| 1,554 | Taghkanic NY | 1,257 | $86K | 5.6% | 3.7% | 9% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Egremont, the top three, the last and three more from Massachusetts.
Egremont and its neighbors: 26% work next door
The biggest share goes to Great Barrington (16%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Egremont workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egremont | – | B | B− | 44 min | $101,458 |
| Sheffield | 7% | B | B | 21 min | $92,120 |
| Great Barrington | 16% | C+ | A+ | 22 min | $84,132 |
| Mount Washington | under 3% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| Alford | 3% | — | — | 26 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Mount Washington and Alford: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Egremont’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 Egremont: questions
What is the median household income in Egremont?
$101,458 (±$29,923) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,960 across Massachusetts and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Egremont?
8.0%, against 10.0% across Massachusetts and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Egremont?
44 minutes each way on average, against 29 across Massachusetts and 26 nationally. 30% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Egremont work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Great Barrington (16%, 7 mi), Sheffield (7%, 6 mi), Pittsfield (5%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Egremont walkable?
Egremont is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Egremont without a car?
4% 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 Egremont, from the people who make the trip.
More of Egremont
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.