LEHD LODES8 · 2023 · Primary jobs (JT01) · Census tracts

Boston Commuter Flows

Where people in the Boston metro live, and where they go to work. Each arc runs from a home tract to a work tract.

Map

Draw flows between

Towns Census tracts

Colour tracts by

Jobs vs. homes Commute length Plain

Minimum workers per arc

Hide flows into Boston Animate flows

Hover a tract to pick out its flows: dots mark where its commuters come from and go to. Click a tract to lock it; click again to switch between where its residents work and where its workers live.

Busiest town-to-town corridors

Workers who live in one town and work in another. Click a corridor to map it.

How far people commute

Share of workers by straight-line distance in km, home block to work block. Hover a bar for the worker count.

Average commute by group

Biggest job tracts

Method and data

Analysis and map: Carlos Grace · carlosgrace.com