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Jobs & commute in Teaticket

A job hub: Teaticket has 1.9 jobs per working resident, and 1,253 people come in to work

Employers in Teaticket report 1,290 jobs for 675 working residents. Only 5% work in Teaticket; the top destination outside it is Falmouth (38%, 3 miles). A typical one-way commute lasts 28 minutes (Massachusetts 29, U.S. 26).

Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made

What stands out · In brief

Teaticket at work: what stands out

Jobs in Teaticket have more than doubled in ten years

Jobs based in Teaticket went from 407 in 2013 to 1,290 in 2023, +217%. The jobs ↓

Teaticket is where the jobs are

Teaticket has 1,290 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓

Teaticket’s workforce skews older

37% of Teaticket’s working residents are 55 or older. The jobs ↓

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 675 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.

★ What stands out · The jobs

What Teaticket’s employers do

Jobs based in TeaticketJobs Teaticket residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms1%13%
Trade, transport & utilities33%16%
Services: health, schools, offices66%71%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less16%12%
$1,251–$3,333 a month25%20%
Over $3,333 a month59%67%

Who does it

29 or younger19%19%
30 to 5446%44%
55 and older36%37%
+217%

Jobs based in Teaticket, 2013 → 2023: 407 → 1,290. 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 Teaticket’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Day and night

How many people are in Teaticket by day

On a workday 638 residents head out to work and 37 work right here.

638live here, work elsewhere
37live and work here
1,253work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night1,800
Workday2,400
1,800live here− 640head out to work+ 1,300come in to work= 2,400on a workday

About 2,400 people are in Teaticket on a workday afternoon, 35% more than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
1.91jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.

The commute map

Where Teaticket’s workforce comes from

New Bedford: 35 workers live here (3%)BostonBarnstable Town: 62 workers live here (5%)Plymouth: 30 workers live here (2%)Mashpee: 92 workers live here (7%)Sandwich: 29 workers live here (2%)Yarmouth: 12 workers live here (1%)Bourne: 51 workers live here (4%)Marshfield: 13 workers live here (1%)Wareham: 42 workers live here (3%)Falmouth: 567 workers live here (44%)DartmouthTeaticketEast FalmouthFalmouthMashpeeBarnstable TownBourneWarehamNew BedfordTeaticket
1
Falmouth2.7 mi away
44%567
2
Mashpee6.3 mi away
7%92
3
Barnstable Town13.8 mi away
5%62
4
Bourne11 mi away
4%51
5
Wareham15.4 mi away
3%42
6
New Bedford19.6 mi away
3%35
7
Plymouth22.8 mi away
2%30
8
Sandwich11.9 mi away
2%29
9
Marshfield39 mi away
1%13
10
Yarmouth20.3 mi away
1%12
Everywhere elseother towns and states
28%357
The top trips

Where Teaticket clocks in

Lines 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.

Time on the road

About 28 minutes each way for Teaticket’s commuters

A year of commuting
211 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Teaticket28 min
Massachusetts29 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
24%

of Teaticket workers work from home, vs 19% across Massachusetts. Their commute is the hallway.

About 2 in 10
How Teaticket gets to work
88%Drive alone
10%Carpool
2%Walk

Share of the 604 commuters (the 24% 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

How far it is to work from Teaticket

10 mi25 mi50 mi65 miFalmouth: 38% · 2.7 miBarnstable Town: 8% · 13.8 miBoston: 5% · 57.9 miMashpee: 4% · 6.3 miBourne: 3% · 11 miSandwich: 2% · 11.9 miYarmouth: 2% · 20.3 miPlymouth: 1% · 22.8 miWareham: 1% · 15.4 miDartmouth: 1% · 19.3 miFalmouth 38%Barnstable Town 8%Boston 5%Mashpee 4%Bourne 3%Teaticket
TeaticketTop destinations (size = commuters)
46%Under 10 mi308 residents
18%10–24 mi123 residents
16%25–50 mi106 residents
20%Over 50 mi138 residents

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.

Next door

Around Teaticket: the bordering towns

East Falmouth: few work hereEast FalmouthTeaticket
10%+5–9%2–4%1%Under 1%

Jobs & commute next door

TownTeaticket workers thereJobs & incomeWalkabilityCommuteHousehold income
Teaticket–——28 min$84,837
East Falmouthunder 2%——36 min—

Same-state neighbors only. East Falmouth: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.

Darker towns draw more of Teaticket’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

How to read these numbers

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.

How these figures and grades are made →

Jobs and commuting in Teaticket: questions

What is the median household income in Teaticket?

$84,837 (±$18,581) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,960 across Massachusetts and $80,734 nationally.

What is the poverty rate in Teaticket?

6.5%, against 10.0% across Massachusetts and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).

How long is the commute from Teaticket?

28 minutes each way on average, against 29 across Massachusetts and 26 nationally. 24% of workers work from home.

Where do people who live in Teaticket work?

5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Falmouth (38%, 3 mi), Barnstable Town (8%, 14 mi), Boston (5%, 58 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).

Can you get around Teaticket without a car?

0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.

Commuter talk

Getting to work from Teaticket, from the people who make the trip.

Town Square →
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Beyond the commute

More of Teaticket

Teaticket home →

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.