Foxborough Pumping Station · Photo: User:Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Foxborough have higher incomes than those in 86% of U.S. towns
About one in ten work in Foxborough itself; outside it, Boston draws the most (14%, 22 miles). Below the poverty line: 5.7% of residents; Massachusetts has 10.0%. For jobs and income Foxborough is better than 80% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns (B+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Foxborough, in brief
Foxborough draws workers from far and wide
The 11,081 jobs in Foxborough are filled from a wide area. Foxborough’s own residents hold 8% and the ten next-biggest home towns 26%; the other 66% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
The quickest commute around
Foxborough’s 29-minute average trip is shorter than in any town next door, where it runs from 32 to 39 minutes. Next door ↓
Foxborough’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Foxborough is Boston, 22 miles away as the crow flies. 14% of working residents (1,215) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. 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.
Jobs & income in Foxborough: the grade in detail
Job access by car holds Foxborough’s grade up (ahead of 90% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (5.8%, 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, Foxborough could be anywhere from B to A+.
Where Foxborough’s working residents head each day
Where Foxborough clocks in
14% of workers
3% 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.
How many miles Foxborough commutes
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.
A workday in Foxborough: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 7,809 residents head out to work, 879 work right here, and 10,202 people come in from elsewhere.
About 21,000 people are in Foxborough on a workday afternoon, 13% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.28 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.
66% of the jobs in Foxborough pay over $3,333 a month
11,081 jobs are based in Foxborough.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Foxborough, 2013 → 2023: 10,708 → 11,081. 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 Foxborough’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Foxborough: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Foxborough workers work from home, vs 19% across Massachusetts. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 7,924 commuters (the 18% 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.
Foxborough is a driving town
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 14.1% across Massachusetts, on an EPA index of 7.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 9,636 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 0.9 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 56% 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). 3.2% of Foxborough households have no vehicle (Massachusetts 11.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Foxborough’s commuters take a bus or train.
Foxborough places 688th of 2,023 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 13,000 to 26,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Westwood MA | 16,426 | $223K | 4.6% | 1.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Hopkinton MA | 19,866 | $223K | 2.5% | 2.3% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 64 | Hingham MA | 24,481 | $178K | 4.3% | 2.4% | 13% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 686 | Ferndale MI | 19,212 | $95K | 9.0% | 3.7% | 5% | A− |
| 687 | Benbrook TX | 24,279 | $86K | 5.9% | 4.3% | 4% | A− |
| 688 | Foxborough MA | 18,934 | $116K | 5.7% | 5.8% | 10% | A− |
| 689 | Newberry Township PA | 16,377 | $95K | 5.8% | 4.0% | 5% | A− |
| 690 | La Crescenta-Montrose CA | 19,660 | $130K | 5.1% | 8.1% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,023 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Foxborough, the top three, the last and three more from Massachusetts.
Work in the towns next to Foxborough
The biggest share goes to Walpole (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Foxborough workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foxborough | – | A− | B+ | 29 min | $115,833 |
| Sharon | 2% | A+ | A− | 39 min | $191,835 |
| Walpole | 3% | A | A | 34 min | $171,500 |
| Wrentham | under 2% | A− | B+ | 32 min | $151,676 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Foxborough’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 Foxborough: questions
What is the median household income in Foxborough?
$115,833 (±$9,343) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,960 across Massachusetts and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Foxborough?
5.7%, against 10.0% across Massachusetts and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Foxborough?
29 minutes each way on average, against 29 across Massachusetts and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Foxborough work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Boston (14%, 22 mi), Norwood (3%, 9 mi), Canton (3%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Foxborough walkable?
Foxborough is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Foxborough without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Foxborough, from the people who make the trip.
More of Foxborough
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.