Stamford

City Commute Profile

Stamford, CT

Where Stamford’s 62,344 resident workers go each day — 33.7% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is New York.

ConnecticutLODES 2023 data
48
Commute Score

48 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Stamford at a glance
Employed Residents
62,344
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
15.1mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
33.7%
Share working within the area
Work from home
19.4%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
New York
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Stamford proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Stamford commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Stamford

62,344 commutes, one dot at a time

Stamford

Where 62,344 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Stamford, by worker count.

1Stamford0.0 mi21,005
2New York32.0 mi7,949
3Norwalk6.8 mi3,763
4Greenwich5.6 mi3,645
5Bridgeport19.8 mi789
6New Haven36.2 mi783
7Hartford65.1 mi778
8White Plains12.0 mi664

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Stamford.

1Stamford0.0 mi21,005
2Norwalk6.8 mi6,408
3New York32.0 mi3,265
4Bridgeport19.8 mi2,808
5Danbury23.0 mi1,297
6Shelton27.0 mi897
7West Haven33.1 mi737
8New Haven36.2 mi578

Top industries

The sectors that employ Stamford’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance14.1%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services13.3%
INInformation11.6%
FIFinance and Insurance11.4%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services8.4%
AFAccommodation and Food Services6.5%
RTRetail Trade6.4%
EDEducational Services5.1%
MGManagement of Companies and Enterprises4.3%

Stamford city profile

Who lives in Stamford — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
137,144
Median age
38.4yrs
Median household income
$111,586
Median home value
$624,400
Median gross rent
$2,276/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
51.7%
Poverty rate
10.1%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Stamford

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

4 providers · 2 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps74% of homes
2 Gbps74%
5 Gbps74%
8 Gbps74%
See all internet providers in Stamford

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).