New Haven has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
151 jobs are based in New Haven, against 1,259 working residents. Jobs and income earn New Haven C; getting around on foot earns it D. Home is the office for 5% of workers; New York has 15%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
New Haven and work: the main findings
New Haven is a place people come home to
There are 151 jobs based in New Haven, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday New Haven has about 1,900 people in it, 37% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from New Haven are quick
The average trip to work takes 23 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 77 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York 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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in New Haven
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, New Haven is better than 32% of U.S. towns, #561 of 758 in New York. Household income holds New Haven’s grade up ($91,324, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 23% of U.S. towns).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, New Haven could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Who commutes out of New Haven, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,234 residents head out to work, 25 work right here, and 126 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in New Haven on a workday afternoon, 37% 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.
Getting to work from New Haven takes about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of New Haven workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,192 commuters (the 5% who work from home are left out). Across New York: 57% drive alone, 25% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Where New Haven goes to work
Where New Haven clocks in
15% of workers
10% 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.
Goods, not services: 32% of the jobs in New Haven
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in New Haven, 2013 → 2023: 94 → 151. 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.
How far New Haven’s workers travel
About 18% 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.
New Haven is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, New Haven is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns, #719 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 3.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,259 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 1.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 62% 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). 3.2% of New Haven households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of New Haven’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,100, New Haven ranks 3,185th of 4,771 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | East Williston NY | 2,616 | $215K | 2.3% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 10 | Lloyd Harbor NY | 3,587 | $250K | 2.1% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Great Neck Estates NY | 3,139 | $238K | 5.7% | 1.7% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,183 | Bean Blossom Township IN | 2,887 | $83K | 11.4% | 7.2% | <1% | C |
| 3,184 | Warrensburg NY | 3,937 | $61K | 14.7% | 2.8% | 17% | C |
| 3,185 | New Haven NY | 3,005 | $91K | 15.6% | 5.4% | 2% | C |
| 3,186 | Wolf Township PA | 3,084 | $71K | 13.1% | 6.1% | 3% | C |
| 3,187 | Newbury VT | 2,371 | $62K | 14.0% | 2.0% | 10% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,771 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 New York.
14% of New Haven works in a town next door
The biggest share goes to Mexico (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of New Haven’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 New Haven: questions
What is the median household income in New Haven?
$91,324 (±$9,384) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in New Haven?
15.6%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from New Haven?
23 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in New Haven work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oswego (15%, 9 mi), Syracuse (10%, 31 mi), Mexico (8%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is New Haven walkable?
New Haven is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around New Haven 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 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.