Photo: John Phelan · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Ashaway works elsewhere
Employers in Ashaway report 194 jobs, against 756 working residents. At 25 minutes each way, commutes from Ashaway run about the Rhode Island average. For 2% of workers, the job is at home, next to 13% for Rhode Island as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Ashaway: the figures worth knowing
Ashaway and Westerly trade workers both ways
Westerly is the top workplace for Ashaway residents (16%) and also where the most people who work in Ashaway come from (28% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Ashaway is a place people come home to
There are 194 jobs based in Ashaway, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Ashaway has about 1,200 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Ashaway workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 13% across Rhode Island. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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 756 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
16% of working residents work in Westerly
Where Ashaway clocks in
16% of workers
8% of workers
6% 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.
Ashaway by day and by night
On a workday 749 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 187 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Ashaway on a workday afternoon, 33% 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 Ashaway takes about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ashaway workers work from home, vs 13% across Rhode Island. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,051 commuters (the 3% who work from home are left out). Across Rhode Island: 83% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Making and building: 45% of jobs based in Ashaway
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ashaway, 2013 → 2023: 188 → 194. 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 Ashaway’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Ashaway’s workers travel
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.
16% of Ashaway works in a town next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Westerly. Darker towns draw more of Ashaway’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 Ashaway: questions
What is the median household income in Ashaway?
$103,707 (±$52,070) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $87,796 across Rhode Island and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ashaway?
1.4%, against 11.2% across Rhode Island and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ashaway?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Rhode Island and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ashaway work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Westerly (16%, 7 mi), Groton (8%, 14 mi), Providence (6%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Ashaway without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ashaway, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ashaway
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.