Photo: Jessamyn West · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Braintree commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Only 3% work in Braintree itself; outside it, Randolph draws the most (28%, 6 miles). Braintree has 77 jobs; 497 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Braintree are C for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Braintree, in brief
A lot of Braintree works one town over
35% of working residents work in a town that borders Braintree: Randolph (28%), Brookfield (4%) and Bethel (3%). Next door ↓
Braintree is a place people come home to
There are 77 jobs based in Braintree, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Braintree has about 810 people in it, 34% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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 497 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Braintree
On income, poverty and job access, Braintree is better than 30% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Braintree’s grade up ($79,803, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.0%) is left out: Braintree’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, Braintree could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Who works in Braintree, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 484 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 64 people come in from elsewhere.
About 810 people are in Braintree on a workday afternoon, 34% 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.
The towns that employ Braintree’s residents
Where Braintree clocks in
28% of workers
6% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 38% of the jobs in Braintree
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Braintree, 2013 → 2023: 93 → 77. 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 Braintree’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 26 minutes in Braintree
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Braintree workers work from home, vs 17% across Vermont. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 423 commuters (the 19% who work from home are left out). Across Vermont: 82% 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.
The distance from Braintree to work
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 Braintree start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Braintree is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 7.2% across Vermont, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 522 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 1.4% of Braintree households have no vehicle (Vermont 6.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Braintree’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700, Braintree comes 2,738th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 529 | Bolton VT | 1,277 | $111K | 2.9% | 1.1% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 679 | Cornwall VT | 1,290 | $115K | 0.8% | 7.4% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 873 | West Windsor VT | 1,355 | $109K | 3.7% | 3.4% | 5% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,736 | Madison Township IN | 1,284 | $85K | 19.4% | 2.2% | 1% | C |
| 2,737 | Reade Township PA | 1,402 | $75K | 13.3% | 4.1% | 4% | C |
| 2,738 | Braintree VT | 1,226 | $80K | 11.1% | 5.0% | 3% | C |
| 2,739 | Phoenix IL | 1,646 | $30K | 21.5% | 22.6% | 1% | C |
| 2,740 | Rich Township MI | 1,502 | $66K | 6.5% | 4.5% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Braintree, the top three, the last and three more from Vermont.
35% of Braintree works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Braintree workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braintree | – | C | C | 26 min | $79,803 |
| Rochester | under 3% | D | A− | 27 min | $72,676 |
| Randolph | 28% | B | A | 21 min | $76,758 |
| Granville | under 3% | — | — | 34 min | — |
| Brookfield | 4% | B | D | 37 min | $98,500 |
| Roxbury | under 3% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Bethel | 3% | B− | C+ | 28 min | $75,822 |
Same-state neighbors only. Granville and Roxbury: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Randolph. Darker towns draw more of Braintree’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 Braintree: questions
What is the median household income in Braintree?
$79,803 (±$4,855) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $81,203 across Vermont and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Braintree?
11.1%, against 10.1% across Vermont and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Braintree?
26 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Vermont and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Braintree work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Randolph (28%, 6 mi), Berlin (6%, 16 mi), Hartford (5%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Braintree walkable?
Braintree is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Braintree without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Braintree, from the people who make the trip.
More of Braintree
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.