Photo: Swampyank · CC BY-SA 4.0Maynard has higher household incomes than 90% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 8.3%, against 10.0% across Massachusetts. For jobs and income Maynard is better than 76% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (B+). Only 7% work in Maynard; the top destination outside it is Boston (13%, 24 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Maynard stands out on work
What’s behind Maynard’s Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Maynard’s grade up ($124,067, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (5.5%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Maynard could be anywhere from B to A+.
How far Maynard’s workers travel
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.
In and out of Maynard on a workday
On a workday 5,209 residents head out to work, 388 work right here, and 3,194 people come in from elsewhere.
About 8,700 people are in Maynard on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.
0.64 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Where Maynard goes to work
Where Maynard clocks in
13% 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.
Maynard is a services town
3,582 jobs are based in Maynard.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Maynard, 2013 → 2023: 3,466 → 3,582. 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 Maynard’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Maynard: about 32 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Maynard workers work from home, vs 19% across Massachusetts. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,554 commuters (the 23% 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.
Maynard is a driving town
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 5,909 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). 4.6% of Maynard households have no vehicle (Massachusetts 11.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Maynard’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 2,878 U.S. towns of 7,000 to 14,000, Maynard comes 964th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Weston MA | 11,729 | $250K | 2.9% | 2.2% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Norwell MA | 11,546 | $189K | 2.7% | 1.9% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 80 | Georgetown MA | 8,577 | $152K | 3.8% | 1.7% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 962 | Indian Harbour Beach FL | 8,914 | $97K | 10.2% | 1.8% | 5% | A− |
| 963 | Standish ME | 11,000 | $105K | 7.3% | 2.4% | 8% | A− |
| 964 | Maynard MA | 10,703 | $124K | 8.3% | 5.5% | 7% | A− |
| 965 | Liberty Township OH | 8,680 | $100K | 8.4% | 3.8% | 7% | A− |
| 966 | Carpinteria CA | 12,734 | $101K | 7.0% | 3.6% | 18% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,878 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Maynard, the top three, the last and three more from Massachusetts.
Around Maynard: the bordering towns
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Maynard’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 Maynard: questions
What is the median household income in Maynard?
$124,067 (±$16,495) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,960 across Massachusetts and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Maynard?
8.3%, against 10.0% across Massachusetts and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Maynard?
32 minutes each way on average, against 29 across Massachusetts and 26 nationally. 23% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Maynard work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Boston (13%, 24 mi), Cambridge (6%, 18 mi), Concord (6%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Maynard walkable?
Maynard is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Maynard without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Maynard, from the people who make the trip.
More of Maynard
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.