LOCAL DATA
Commuting Patterns
The Greater Bridgeport Area is an employment center with industry concentrations in manufacturing, healthcare, and retail/services, but also exports labor.
More than twice the number of area residents commute out of the area for work – typically to other coastal employment centers in Connecticut and New York – as stay to work locally. This signals an opportunity for businesses to locate here and attract employees who would like to work closer to home, as well as for the area to market to workers who are thinking of creating their own businesses.
PRIVATE PRIMARY JOBS Inflow/Outflow Job Counts |
Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Employed in the selection area | 102,863 | 100.0% |
| Employed in the selection area but living outside | 67,540 | 65.7% |
| Employed and living in the selection area | 35,296 | 34.3% |
| Living in the selection area | 105,530 | 100.0% |
| Living in the selection but employed outside the area | 70,234 | 66.6% |
| Living and employed in the selection area | 35,296 | 33.4% |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau Mapping
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The area’s strong transportation assets facilitate Greater Bridgeport residents commuting out of the area for work and residents of other areas commuting into the Greater Bridgeport area. The Metro-North New Haven rail line, I-95, and Route 15 are part of an extensive regional transportation network that makes it easy for employees to travel to or live in the Greater Bridgeport area.
- Employed in selection area, live outside
- Live in selection area, employed outside
- Employed and live in selection area