Photo: TCP04 · CC BY 4.0Making a living in New Haven
A typical one-way commute lasts 20 minutes; Missouri averages 24, the U.S. 26. For jobs and income New Haven is better than 35% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (B). About one in ten work in New Haven; the top destination outside it is Washington (24%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in New Haven
New Haven trades workers with the towns around it
New Haven has about as many jobs (1,092) as working residents (1,132), but they are mostly different people: 1,006 residents leave for work each day while 966 people come in. Only 12% of the jobs in New Haven are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
New Haven and Washington trade workers both ways
Washington is the top workplace for New Haven residents (24%) and also where the most people who work in New Haven come from (16% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
New Haven makes and builds things
45% of the jobs based in New Haven are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs New Haven residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 29%. 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.
Why New Haven gets the Jobs & income grade it does
The poverty rate holds New Haven’s grade up (10.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 23% of U.S. towns).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, New Haven could be anywhere from D to B+.
Who works in New Haven, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,006 residents head out to work, 126 work right here, and 966 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.96 per resident).
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 New Haven ends
Where New Haven clocks in
24% of workers
5% 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 place that makes things: 45% of New Haven’s jobs are in goods
1,092 jobs are based in New Haven.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in New Haven, 2013 → 2023: 1,351 → 1,092. 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 New Haven’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from New Haven: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of New Haven workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,304 commuters (the 9% who work from home are left out). Across Missouri: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Short hops and long hauls from New Haven
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 New Haven, the car does most of the work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.2% across Missouri, on an EPA index of 5.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,437 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 5.2% of New Haven households have no vehicle (Missouri 6.6%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of New Haven’s commuters take a bus or train.
New Haven places 3,002nd of 4,995 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Warson Woods MO | 1,990 | $207K | 1.3% | 1.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Weatherby Lake MO | 2,139 | $153K | 3.4% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 48 | Lake Winnebago MO | 1,869 | $179K | 1.0% | 0.0% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,000 | Au Sable NY | 3,124 | $95K | 12.0% | 5.4% | 10% | C |
| 3,001 | Hamilton City CA | 2,267 | $66K | 7.6% | 5.7% | 2% | C |
| 3,002 | New Haven MO | 2,397 | $71K | 10.1% | 4.7% | 11% | C |
| 3,003 | South Coatesville PA | 1,773 | $76K | 15.0% | 9.3% | 2% | C |
| 3,004 | Union Township MO | 2,086 | $70K | 14.7% | 2.1% | 18% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,995 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 New Haven, the top three, the last and three more from Missouri.
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 New Haven: questions
What is the median household income in New Haven?
$71,306 (±$5,091) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in New Haven?
10.1%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from New Haven?
20 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in New Haven work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Washington (24%, 12 mi), Hermann (5%, 13 mi), Union (5%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is New Haven walkable?
New Haven is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around New Haven without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from New Haven, from the people who make the trip.
More of New Haven
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.