Photo: User:Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 4.0Burrillville has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Employers in Burrillville report 3,289 jobs, and 7,855 of its residents work somewhere. Burrillville grades B+ for jobs and income and C for walkability. Measured by household income, Burrillville is ahead of 88% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Burrillville: the figures worth knowing
What’s behind Burrillville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Burrillville is better than 71% of U.S. towns, #22 of 38 in Rhode Island. Household income holds Burrillville’s grade up ($119,813, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (6.6%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Burrillville could be anywhere from B to A.
The daily trip from Burrillville: about 35 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Burrillville workers work from home, vs 13% across Rhode Island. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 7,419 commuters (the 11% 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.
How many people are in Burrillville by day
On a workday 6,734 residents head out to work, 1,121 work right here, and 2,168 people come in from elsewhere.
About 12,000 people are in Burrillville on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
11% of working residents work in Providence
Where Burrillville clocks in
11% 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.
Making and building: 32% of jobs based in Burrillville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Burrillville, 2013 → 2023: 2,858 → 3,289. 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 Burrillville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Burrillville
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.
Most trips from Burrillville start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Burrillville is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns, #34 of 38 in Rhode Island. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 5.7% across Rhode Island.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 8,379 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 25% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 10% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 59% 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). 6.2% of Burrillville households have no vehicle (Rhode Island 9.1%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Burrillville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Burrillville next to U.S. towns of 12,000 to 23,000: 869th of 1,999 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 114 | Barrington RI | 16,961 | $153K | 4.5% | 2.6% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 176 | East Greenwich RI | 14,790 | $177K | 4.7% | 2.8% | 12% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 197 | North Smithfield RI | 12,990 | $109K | 4.8% | 2.5% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 867 | Hampton NH | 16,381 | $95K | 5.6% | 4.9% | 15% | B+ |
| 868 | New Hartford NY | 21,945 | $81K | 10.5% | 1.9% | 23% | B+ |
| 869 | Burrillville RI | 16,927 | $120K | 6.5% | 6.6% | 14% | B+ |
| 870 | Cedar Mill OR | 19,471 | $164K | 8.1% | 7.8% | 3% | B+ |
| 871 | Highland Township MI | 20,319 | $97K | 8.3% | 4.3% | 9% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,999 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Burrillville, the top three, the last and three more from Rhode Island.
Next door to Burrillville
The biggest share goes to North Smithfield (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Burrillville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burrillville | – | B+ | C | 35 min | $119,813 |
| Glocester | under 3% | A | C− | 34 min | $113,508 |
| North Smithfield | 4% | A | B+ | 26 min | $108,866 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Burrillville’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 Burrillville: questions
What is the median household income in Burrillville?
$119,813 (±$15,898) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $87,796 across Rhode Island and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Burrillville?
6.5%, against 11.2% across Rhode Island and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Burrillville?
35 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Rhode Island and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Burrillville work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Providence (11%, 18 mi), Woonsocket (6%, 10 mi), Smithfield (5%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Burrillville walkable?
Burrillville is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Burrillville without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 10% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Burrillville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Burrillville
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.