[JayCT]

Originally Posted by Raider111

Wouldn't you assume most commute out of state jobs are white collar pros. Mcjobbers could just stay in state - CTs strength.

Not necessarily. I would think construction/trade people in Connecticut work in New York as well. I knew a person that worked in retail that commuted to Westchester from Fairfield (town) for years. There could be a few factory workers that do that as well since Connecticut costs less than Westchester. Of course there is not a lot of factories in Westchester anymore but there are still a few. Jay

[Mike 75]

Originally Posted by 7 Wishes

I think more commute to White Plains, etc than you think, there are plenty of CT cars on Westchester roads every day. I agree substantially more commute to Manhattan though they usually go by train. My guess of % CT to NY commuters that go to NYC vs Westchester is maybe 70/30 or 75/25 or so.

The weirder thing I see driving from Westchester into FFC in the morning is a small but significant number of NJ cars on the road....a toll bridge and TWO states (though doable....maybe spouse works in opposite direction in NJ). I wonder how many commute from CT to NJ, I'd guess not a lot but not zero

I'm in Stamford, and about 10% of my office commutes from NJ.

[7 Wishes]

Originally Posted by Mike 75

I'm in Stamford, and about 10% of my office commutes from NJ.

Which makes sense with the cars I see on the road, now I'm curious about the reverse (CT commuters to NJ). One example is I could see someone from Greenwich or Stamford maybe commute to a town just over the GWB like Ft. Lee or Englewood (Cliffs), or maybe someone from there or from Ridgefield or Danbury area commuting across to Rockland County and working just over the state line in Mahwah or something.

[ArmLizzie]

There's the other side of this too that I haven't seen posted:

Some people get jobs in Company X, and came from other states. They moved to Connecticut, but needed to be close to the job when they made the move.

In other words, the people I"m talking about aren't people who 1. live in this or that town when they 2. get a job somewhere else. Rather, they 1. get a job and then 2. move from wherever they came from, closer to their new job.

I'm talking about transplants from other states, primarily. But there are also plenty of people who lived in one part of Connecticut (or New York) whose jobs took them further from their homes at the time, and chose to move closer to their jobs.

That doesn't mean they are New Haveners working in Waterbury. It means they're Californians with Waterbury jobs, who move to New Haven.

See the difference?

[ProudFairfielder]

Originally Posted by SeaDoo342

Discussion in the time zone thread led me to Google where the state's residents work... which led me to a study by TrendCT showing the amount of people who leave the state...

https://trendct.org/2015/07/14/who-l...tate-for-work/

Fairfield County towns are the most, where every single town has a percentage of people who work out of state (presumably in NYC). Towns like Greenwich/Westport/Darien/New Canaan, etc all have more than THIRTY percent of their residents working out of state (even right up to Sherman).

New Haven county also has a percentage that works out of state, but mostly concentrated to the western parts. One thing I did notice is the towns along the extreme western edge of NH County all have the majority of their work force (almost HALF) working out of the county - Southbury, Oxford, Middlebury, Seymour, Valley towns, Milford. Most of these people probably work in Fairfield County (or NY) since they all border it.

The Northeast Corner of CT has the second most people who leave the state for work. The Northeast corner (Woodstock, Thompson, Putnam) all have the majority of their workforce leaving the state, probably to work in the Boston or Worcester areas.

One thing I noticed is that lower Fairfield has more men who leave the state for work, whereas a cluster of towns in New Haven County have more women leaving the state for work than men (Southbury/Middlebury/Oxford).

Great find! Ever since the official CT workforce statistics have stopped including out of state workers I've been needing a source... thank you for sharing!