Photo: Adam Moss · CC BY-SA 2.0With 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of Addison works elsewhere
Working from home is the commute for 4% of workers, where New York as a whole has 15%. Employers in Addison report 540 jobs for 977 working residents. The two grades for Addison are C− for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Addison in brief
The figures behind Addison’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Addison is better than 16% of U.S. towns. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Addison’s grade.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Addison could be anywhere from D to C+.
About 26 minutes to work from Addison
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Addison workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,034 commuters (the 5% 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.
Addison quiets down on a workday
On a workday 838 residents head out to work, 139 work right here, and 401 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Addison on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
16% of working residents work in Corning
Where Addison clocks in
16% of workers
12% of workers
5% 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.
Jobs in Addison: what the 540 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Addison, 2013 → 2023: 510 → 540. 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 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Addison’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Addison’s workers travel
About 24% 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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Addison, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Addison is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,083 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 14.2% of Addison households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Addison’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Addison is 4,220th of 5,328 U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| 8 | Village of the Branch NY | 1,764 | $174K | 1.5% | 3.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 9 | Old Brookville NY | 2,098 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,218 | Carrier Mills Township IL | 2,221 | $53K | 20.3% | 4.2% | 4% | C− |
| 4,219 | Broomfield Township MI | 1,924 | $65K | 15.0% | 5.4% | 6% | C− |
| 4,220 | Addison NY | 2,309 | $57K | 14.9% | 6.0% | 14% | C− |
| 4,221 | Warsaw KY | 1,757 | $61K | 24.6% | 6.8% | 12% | C− |
| 4,222 | West Carthage NY | 1,721 | $50K | 10.4% | 0.4% | 9% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,328 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Addison, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
The towns next door employ 12% of Addison
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Erwin. Darker towns draw more of Addison’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, 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 Addison: questions
What is the median household income in Addison?
$57,105 (±$12,134) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Addison?
14.9%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Addison?
26 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Addison work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Corning (16%, 9 mi), Erwin (12%, 5 mi), Corning (5%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Addison walkable?
Addison is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Addison without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Addison, from the people who make the trip.
More of Addison
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, 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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.