TABLE T12


JOURNEY TO WORK SITE IN NEW MILFORD, CT

Statewide details for 2000

NEW MILFORD STATISTICS WITHIN REGIONAL OVERVIEW

To New Milford Work
From Residence In:		 2000
Trips		 1990
Trips		 1980
Trips		 2000
% Trips		 1990
% Trips		 1980
% Trips
New Milford 5236 5660 4265 54.1 55.5 62.3
Danbury 771 770 228 8.0 7.6 3.3
N.Y. State 312 464 192 3.2 4.6 2.8
Brookfield 258 338 320 2.7 3.3 4.7
Torrington 256 131 77 2.6 1.3 1.1
Washington 229 220 219 2.4 2.2 3.2
New Fairfield 180 106 57 1.9 1.0 0.8
Litchfield 173 134 48 1.8 1.3 0.7
Sherman 165 179 119 1.7 1.8 1.7
Bethel 159 178 89 1.6 1.7 1.3
Newtown 151 163 60 1.6 1.6 0.9
Bridgewater 132 200 205 1.4 2.0 3.0
Waterbury 131 162 23 1.4 1.6 0.3
Kent 130 197 213 1.3 1.9 3.1
             
To New Milford Work
From Residence In:		 2000
Trips		 1990
Trips		 1980
Trips		 2000
% Trips		 1990
% Trips		 1980
% Trips
Warren 107 137 165 1.1 1.3 2.4
Woodbury 96 151 46 1.0 1.5 0.7
Roxbury 94 106 64 1.0 1.0 0.9
Goshen 79 13 0 0.8 0.1 N/A
Southbury 77 86 23 0.8 0.8 0.3
Milford 56 0 0 0.6 N/A N/A
Thomaston 56 0 0 0.6 N/A N/A
Bethlehem 45 5 0 0.5 N/A N/A
Morris 41 32 0 0.4 0.3 N/A
Harwinton 40 24 0 0.4 0.2 N/A
Sharon 36 25 0 0.4 0.2 N/A
Watertown 36 37 0 0.4 0.4 N/A
Salisbury 35 16 0 0.4 0.2 N/A
All Other 592 662 428 6.1 6.5 6.3
Total 9673 10196 6841 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%


FROM RESIDENCE BY REGION TO WORK IN NEW MILFORD, CT

To New Milford Work
From Residence In:		 2000
Trips		 1990
Trips		 1980
Trips		 2000
% Trips		 1990
% Trips		 1980
% Trips
Housatonic, CT 7073 7792 5378 73.1 76.4 78.6
Gr. Waterbury, CT 551 557 195 5.7 5.5 2.9
N.Y. State 312 464 192 3.2 4.6 2.8
Southwestern, CT 42 68 23 0.4 0.7 0.3
Gr. Bridgeport, CT 22 71 81 0.2 0.7 1.2
Other 1673 1244 972 17.3 12.2 14.2
Total 9673 10196 6841 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%

Source: Census Bureau. Work at home included in data.

WHERE WORK SITES IN NEW MILFORD, CT DRAW THEIR EMPLOYEES FROM:
From Within New Milford Itself: As in most of the other municipalities in the Region, the extent to which employers in New Milford rely upon the working residents of New Milford to serve as their labor pool has been steadily falling between 1970 and 2000. The statistical chances of a New Milford resident filling any particular job opening in New Milford were 69% in 1970, 62% in 1980, 56% in 1990 and 54% in 2000, the decline slowing in recent years.

Workers Into New Milford From Nearby Municipalities: In 2000 the major geographic sources of labor to fill jobs in New Milford were as follows: from New Milford itself (5,236 or 54%), from Danbury to the south (771 or 8%), New York State (312), Brookfield (258), Torrington (256), Washington (229), New Fairfield (180), Litchfield (173), and Sherman (165). Workers from just these nine locations filled 78% of all jobs in New Milford in 2000.