Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0Jobs, pay and the trip to work in Adams Center
Only 6% work in Adams Center itself; outside it, Watertown draws the most (32%, 8 miles). For 9% of workers, the job is at home; New York has 15%. A typical one-way commute from Adams Center lasts 17 minutes (New York 33, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Adams Center stands out on work
Commutes from Adams Center are quick
The average trip to work takes 17 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 123 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
One in three of Adams Center works in Watertown
174 working residents, 32%, have their main job in Watertown, 8.1 miles away. That’s 5 times as many as work in Adams Center itself. The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 539 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
About 17 minutes to work from Adams Center
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Adams Center workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 515 commuters (the 9% who work from home are left out). Across New York: 57% drive alone, 25% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Out of Adams Center to work: where people go
Where Adams Center clocks in
9% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
The workday shuffle in and out of Adams Center
On a workday 508 residents head out to work, 31 work right here, and 394 people come in from elsewhere.
About 960 people are in Adams Center on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.79 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
What Adams Center’s employers do
425 jobs are based in Adams Center.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Adams Center, 2014 → 2024: 184 → 425. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Adams Center’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Adams Center
About 22% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Adams Center: questions
What is the median household income in Adams Center?
$87,727 (±$24,360) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Adams Center?
10.1%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Adams Center?
17 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Adams Center work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Watertown (32%, 8 mi), Watertown (12%, 6 mi), Adams (9%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Adams Center without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Adams Center, from the people who make the trip.
More of Adams Center
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.