Photo: Richard B. Johnson · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in New Braintree are higher than in 76% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income New Braintree is better than 70% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (D). Below the poverty line: 7.2% of residents, next to 10.0% across Massachusetts. 7% of workers have no commute at all, against 19% across Massachusetts.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets New Braintree apart on work
Most jobs in New Braintree pay over $40,000 a year
78% of the jobs based in New Braintree pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. The jobs ↓
New Braintree workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 37 minutes each way, against 29 across Massachusetts. Over a year that’s about 284 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
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 439 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why New Braintree gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Household income holds New Braintree’s grade up ($99,500, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 47% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (5.0%) is left out: New Braintree’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, New Braintree could be anywhere from B to A−.
New Braintree is a services town
405 jobs are based in New Braintree.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in New Braintree, 2013 → 2023: 426 → 405. 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 New Braintree’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 37 minutes from New Braintree
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of New Braintree workers work from home, vs 19% across Massachusetts. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 402 commuters (the 7% 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 many people are in New Braintree by day
On a workday 427 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 393 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 (0.92 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.
10% of working residents work in Worcester
Where New Braintree clocks in
10% of workers
6% of workers
4% 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 far it is to work from New Braintree
About 15% 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.
In New Braintree, the car does most of the work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 14.1% across Massachusetts, on an EPA index of 3.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 434 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). 4.7% of New Braintree households have no vehicle (Massachusetts 11.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of New Braintree’s commuters take a bus or train.
New Braintree next to U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400: 486th of 3,133 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 365 | Blandford MA | 1,212 | $92K | 5.5% | 0.3% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 482 | Monterey MA | 1,093 | $152K | 4.1% | 9.4% | 9% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 484 | Heidelberg PA | 1,230 | $68K | 8.1% | 6.6% | 4% | B+ |
| 485 | Crawford Township KS | 1,066 | $93K | 1.7% | 3.6% | 2% | B+ |
| 486 | New Braintree MA | 1,013 | $100K | 7.2% | 5.0% | 3% | B+ |
| 487 | Mifflin Township OH | 1,254 | $91K | 6.3% | 8.2% | 1% | B+ |
| 488 | Liverpool Township PA | 1,066 | $100K | 0.2% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 511 | Chesterfield MA | 1,154 | $104K | 6.4% | 2.9% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 New Braintree, the top three, the last and three more from Massachusetts.
How New Braintree compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Hardwick (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | New Braintree workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Braintree | – | B+ | D | 37 min | $99,500 |
| Hardwick | 6% | C+ | C | 31 min | $75,000 |
| West Brookfield | 3% | B | D | 42 min | $95,613 |
| North Brookfield | under 3% | B− | C− | 37 min | $79,285 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of New Braintree’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 New Braintree: questions
What is the median household income in New Braintree?
$99,500 (±$8,083) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,960 across Massachusetts and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in New Braintree?
7.2%, against 10.0% across Massachusetts and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from New Braintree?
37 minutes each way on average, against 29 across Massachusetts and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in New Braintree work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Worcester (10%, 17 mi), Hardwick (6%, 5 mi), Ware (4%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is New Braintree walkable?
New Braintree is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around New Braintree without a car?
0% 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 New Braintree, from the people who make the trip.
More of New Braintree
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.