Photo: ToddC4176 · CC BY-SA 3.0Whately has 2.2 jobs for every working resident: 1,404 people commute in to work
Jobs & income A−: better than 83% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability D: more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns.
Household incomes here are higher than in 87% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 23 minutes each way (Massachusetts 29, U.S. 26). Only 6% work in Whately; the top destination outside it is Amherst Town (15%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Whately
Whately is where the jobs are
Whately has 1,442 jobs, 2.2 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,400 people are in town, 49% more than the 1,600 who live here. Day and night ↓
Whately makes and builds things
71% of the jobs based in Whately are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Whately residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 12%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Whately are quick
The average trip to work takes 23 minutes, against 29 across Massachusetts. That’s about 46 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 655 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Whately’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Whately is better than 83% of U.S. towns. Household income is its strongest input ($116,563, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 53% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (4.7%) is left out: Whately’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, Whately could be anywhere from B to A.
Whately fills up on a workday
On a workday 617 residents head out to work, 38 work right here, and 1,404 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,400 people are in Whately on a workday afternoon, 49% more than live here.
2.2 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Whately makes things: 71% of its jobs are in goods
1,442 jobs are based in Whately. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Whately’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Whately, 2013 → 2023: 1,331 → 1,442. 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.
About 23 minutes each way, quicker than most of Massachusetts
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Whately workers work from home, vs 19% across Massachusetts. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 692 commuters (the 20% who work from home are left out). Across Massachusetts: 75% drive alone, 8% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Where Whately’s workers come from
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Whately clocks in
15% of workers
11% of workers
7% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Half of Whately commutes less than 10 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
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.
Most trips from Whately start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Whately is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 14.1% across Massachusetts, on an EPA index of 3.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 869 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 1.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 65% 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). 2.7% of Whately households have no vehicle (Massachusetts 11.7%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Whately’s commuters take a bus or train.
Whately is 566th of 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Whately, the top three, the last and three more from Massachusetts.
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 564 | Lake Lorelei OH | 1,746 | $114K | 3.2% | 0.0% | <1% | A− |
| 565 | Washington Township IN | 1,288 | $107K | 3.7% | 4.7% | <1% | A− |
| 566 | Whately MA | 1,622 | $117K | 5.4% | 4.7% | 6% | A− |
| 567 | Recovery Township OH | 1,482 | $107K | 4.0% | 0.0% | 15% | A− |
| 568 | Lake Dalecarlia IN | 1,169 | $118K | 6.2% | 4.6% | <1% | 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− |
| … | |||||||
| 754 | Westhampton MA | 1,618 | $100K | 6.5% | 7.7% | 4% | 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.
11% of Whately works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Deerfield (7%). Darker towns draw more of Whately’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Whately workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whately | – | A− | D | 23 min | $116,563 |
| Sunderland | 4% | B− | A | 17 min | $68,083 |
| Deerfield | 7% | A− | A | 18 min | $106,136 |
| Hatfield | under 3% | A− | B | 20 min | $89,005 |
| Conway | under 3% | B+ | B− | 24 min | $97,250 |
| Williamsburg | under 3% | A− | A− | 25 min | $104,792 |
| South Deerfield | under 3% | — | — | 12 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. South Deerfield: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
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 Whately: questions
What is the median household income in Whately?
$116,563 (±$14,843) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $103,960 across Massachusetts and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Whately?
5.4%, against 10.0% across Massachusetts and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Whately?
23 minutes each way on average, against 29 across Massachusetts and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Whately work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Amherst Town (15%, 8 mi), Northampton (11%, 7 mi), Deerfield (7%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Whately walkable?
Whately is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Whately without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Whately, from the people who make the trip.
More of Whately
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.