Photo: Raime · CC BY-SA 3.0The Pinehills has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Only 2% work in The Pinehills; the top destination outside it is Plymouth (23%, 1 miles). There are 777 jobs in The Pinehills; 1,842 of its residents have a job. Home is the office for 34% of workers; Massachusetts has 19%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in The Pinehills, in a few figures
Jobs in The Pinehills have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in The Pinehills went from 364 in 2013 to 777 in 2023, +113%. The jobs ↓
A lot of The Pinehills works from home
35% of The Pinehills workers work from home, against 19% across Massachusetts. Time on the road ↓
The Pinehills’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside The Pinehills is Boston, 37 miles away as the crow flies. 13% of working residents (238) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
The Pinehills workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 38 minutes each way, against 29 across Massachusetts. Over a year that’s about 291 hours of commuting, 69 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside The Pinehills
69% of The Pinehills residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 46% of the jobs based in The Pinehills pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 98% leave town for their job. 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
The kinds of work in The Pinehills
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in The Pinehills, 2013 → 2023: 364 → 777. 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 The Pinehills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 38 minutes from The Pinehills
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of The Pinehills workers work from home, vs 19% across Massachusetts. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 986 commuters (the 35% 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.
The Pinehills’ commute, mile by mile
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.
Who works in The Pinehills, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,797 residents head out to work, 45 work right here, and 732 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,200 people are in The Pinehills on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
Where the trip to work from The Pinehills ends
Where The Pinehills clocks in
23% of workers
13% 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.
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 The Pinehills: questions
What is the median household income in The Pinehills?
$122,798 (±$16,624) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,960 across Massachusetts and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in The Pinehills?
3.5%, against 10.0% across Massachusetts and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from The Pinehills?
38 minutes each way on average, against 29 across Massachusetts and 26 nationally. 34% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in The Pinehills work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Plymouth (23%, 1 mi), Boston (13%, 37 mi), Barnstable Town (4%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around The Pinehills without a car?
5% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from The Pinehills, from the people who make the trip.
More of The Pinehills
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.