Photo: Nsaum75 · CC BY-SA 3.0Danbury has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Employers in Danbury report 232 jobs, against 645 working residents. Danbury grades B+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Only 1% work in Danbury itself; outside it, Houston draws the most (16%, 39 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 Danbury
Danbury’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Danbury is Houston, 39 miles away as the crow flies. 16% of working residents (101) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Danbury workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 38 minutes each way, against 27 across Texas. Over a year that’s about 291 hours of commuting, 84 more than the state’s typical 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 645 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Danbury’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Danbury is better than 70% of U.S. towns. Household income is its strongest input ($92,159, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (9.3%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
Unemployment (6.1%) is left out: Danbury’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, Danbury could be anywhere from B− to A.
Danbury’s commute, mile by mile
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.
Getting to work from Danbury takes about 38 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Danbury workers work from home, vs 14% across Texas. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 731 commuters (the 10% who work from home are left out). Across Texas: 83% 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.
Danbury quiets down on a workday
On a workday 637 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 224 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Danbury on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
Where people from Danbury work
Where Danbury clocks in
16% of workers
11% of workers
8% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Danbury
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Danbury, 2013 → 2023: 173 → 232. 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 Danbury’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Few in Danbury walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Danbury is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.0% across Texas, on an EPA index of 5.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 809 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). 1.0% of Danbury households have no vehicle (Texas 5.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Danbury’s commuters take a bus or train.
Danbury is 1,153rd of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Seis Lagos TX | 1,391 | $249K | 1.2% | 4.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Rollingwood TX | 1,466 | $240K | 4.6% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| 26 | Oak Leaf TX | 1,684 | $132K | 2.8% | 5.5% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,151 | Jefferson WI | 1,289 | $92K | 2.2% | 0.6% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,152 | Bellemont AZ | 1,701 | $120K | 0.0% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,153 | Danbury TX | 1,683 | $92K | 9.3% | 6.1% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,154 | Frelinghuysen Township NJ | 2,239 | $123K | 3.8% | 6.8% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,155 | Chetek WI | 1,756 | $95K | 3.2% | 2.5% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Danbury, the top three, the last and three more from Texas.
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 Danbury: questions
What is the median household income in Danbury?
$92,159 (±$16,691) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $78,476 across Texas and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Danbury?
9.3%, against 13.8% across Texas and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Danbury?
38 minutes each way on average, against 27 across Texas and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Danbury work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Houston (16%, 39 mi), Angleton (11%, 6 mi), Clute (8%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Danbury walkable?
Danbury is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Danbury without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Danbury, from the people who make the trip.
More of Danbury
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.