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:		 2010
Trips		 2000
Trips		 1990
Trips		 1980
Trips		 2010
% 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:		 2010
Trips		 2000
Trips		 1990
Trips		 1980
Trips		 2010
% 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:		 2010
Trips		 2000
Trips		 1990
Trips		 1980
Trips		 2010
% 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.

 
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