Photo: Croosadabilia croosadabilia · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Richmond works elsewhere
Household incomes here are higher than in 81% of U.S. towns. There are 162 jobs in Richmond, against 516 working residents. The two grades for Richmond are B for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Richmond
Richmond and Pittsfield trade workers both ways
Pittsfield is the top workplace for Richmond residents (33%) and also where the most people who work in Richmond come from (22% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Richmond are quick
The average trip to work takes 22 minutes, against 29 across Massachusetts. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Massachusetts 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 516 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Richmond’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Richmond is better than 61% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Richmond’s grade up ($106,250, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 26% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (2.7%) is left out: Richmond’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, Richmond could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
33% of working residents work in Pittsfield
Where Richmond clocks in
33% of workers
6% 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.
A commute of about 22 minutes in Richmond
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Richmond workers work from home, vs 19% across Massachusetts. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 587 commuters (the 17% 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.
Richmond by day and by night
On a workday 502 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 148 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Richmond on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
Making and building: 29% of jobs based in Richmond
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Richmond, 2013 → 2023: 86 → 162. 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 Richmond’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Richmond
About 20% 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 Richmond, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Richmond is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 14.1% across Massachusetts, on an EPA index of 4.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 708 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). 1.8% of Richmond households have no vehicle (Massachusetts 11.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Richmond’s commuters take a bus or train.
Richmond next to U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900: 1,436th of 5,877 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 483 | Whately MA | 1,622 | $117K | 5.4% | 4.7% | 6% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 579 | Otis MA | 1,610 | $109K | 1.2% | 6.2% | 10% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 611 | Wales MA | 1,833 | $89K | 5.1% | 5.5% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,434 | Ashkum Township IL | 1,381 | $90K | 4.0% | 1.5% | 5% | B |
| 1,435 | Great Bend Township KS | 1,397 | $103K | 6.2% | 0.0% | 6% | B |
| 1,436 | Richmond MA | 1,400 | $106K | 7.3% | 2.7% | 3% | B |
| 1,437 | Genola UT | 1,660 | $127K | 10.3% | 0.2% | 4% | B |
| 1,438 | Oconto WI | 1,398 | $93K | 7.3% | 1.2% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Richmond, the top three, the last and three more from Massachusetts.
Richmond and its neighbors: 10% work next door
The biggest share goes to Hancock (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Richmond’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 Richmond: questions
What is the median household income in Richmond?
$106,250 (±$24,089) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,960 across Massachusetts and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Richmond?
7.3%, against 10.0% across Massachusetts and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Richmond?
22 minutes each way on average, against 29 across Massachusetts and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Richmond work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pittsfield (33%, 7 mi), Hancock (6%, 10 mi), Great Barrington (5%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Richmond walkable?
Richmond is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.1 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Richmond without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Richmond, from the people who make the trip.
More of Richmond
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.