Photo: John Phelan · CC BY 3.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Westhampton works elsewhere
156 jobs are based in Westhampton for 888 working residents. Westhampton grades A− for jobs and income and C for walkability. Household incomes here are higher than in 77% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Westhampton: the gist
Inside Westhampton’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Westhampton is better than 78% of U.S. towns. Household income is its strongest input ($100,000, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 60% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (7.7%) is left out: Westhampton’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, Westhampton could be anywhere from B+ to A.
How many people are in Westhampton by day
On a workday 850 residents head out to work, 38 work right here, and 118 people come in from elsewhere.
About 890 people are in Westhampton on a workday afternoon, 45% 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.
16% of working residents work in Northampton
Where Westhampton clocks in
16% of workers
8% 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.
What Westhampton’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Westhampton, 2013 → 2023: 137 → 156. 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 Westhampton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 29 minutes in Westhampton
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Westhampton workers work from home, vs 19% across Massachusetts. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 615 commuters (the 14% 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.
Where in the region Westhampton works
About 22% 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.
Getting around Westhampton: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Westhampton is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 14.1% across Massachusetts, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 716 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). 1.7% of Westhampton households have no vehicle (Massachusetts 11.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Westhampton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Westhampton is 754th among 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 566 | Whately MA | 1,622 | $117K | 5.4% | 4.7% | 6% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 673 | Otis MA | 1,610 | $109K | 1.2% | 6.2% | 10% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 710 | Wales MA | 1,833 | $89K | 5.1% | 5.5% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 752 | Bristol IN | 1,818 | $77K | 7.4% | 1.8% | 10% | A− |
| 753 | North Haven NY | 1,215 | $155K | 5.4% | 2.3% | 1% | A− |
| 754 | Westhampton MA | 1,618 | $100K | 6.5% | 7.7% | 4% | A− |
| 755 | Bellevue Township MN | 1,181 | $114K | 3.6% | 3.2% | 1% | A− |
| 756 | Lessor WI | 1,242 | $97K | 3.9% | 4.0% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Westhampton, the top three, the last and three more from Massachusetts.
Next door to Westhampton
The biggest share goes to Southampton (2%).
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Westhampton workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westhampton | – | A− | C | 29 min | $100,000 |
| Southampton | 2% | A | D | 22 min | $123,125 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Westhampton’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 Westhampton: questions
What is the median household income in Westhampton?
$100,000 (±$6,937) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,960 across Massachusetts and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Westhampton?
6.5%, against 10.0% across Massachusetts and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Westhampton?
29 minutes each way on average, against 29 across Massachusetts and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Westhampton work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Northampton (16%, 5 mi), Springfield (8%, 18 mi), Easthampton (5%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Westhampton walkable?
Westhampton is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Westhampton 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 Westhampton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Westhampton
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.