Photo: Adam Moss · CC BY-SA 2.0Households in Addison earn less than those in 80% of U.S. towns
4% of workers work from home, against 15% across New York. Below the poverty line: 17.8% of residents, next to 14.0% for New York as a whole. The two grades for Addison are D 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
Addison and work: the main findings
Commutes from Addison are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 92 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Addison workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 15% across New York. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 643 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Addison
On income, poverty and job access, Addison is better than 13% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Addison’s grade.
Unemployment (8.5%) is left out: Addison’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Addison could be anywhere from D to C.
Addison’s commute takes about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 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 643 commuters (the 4% 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.
Who works in Addison, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 556 residents head out to work, 87 work right here, and 426 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.80 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
15% of working residents work in Corning
Where Addison clocks in
15% of workers
14% of workers
12% 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.
Addison is a services town
513 jobs are based in Addison.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Addison, 2013 → 2023: 491 → 513. 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.
The commute from Addison, by distance
About 23% 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.
Addison is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Addison is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 6.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 668 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). 13.6% of Addison households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Addison’s commuters take a bus or train.
Addison next to U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100: 4,595th of 5,794 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 5 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,593 | Babbitt MN | 1,363 | $56K | 10.5% | 4.8% | 25% | D |
| 4,594 | Dryden NY | 1,820 | $50K | 18.2% | 3.7% | 7% | D |
| 4,595 | Addison NY | 1,541 | $56K | 17.8% | 8.5% | 14% | D |
| 4,596 | Walnut Cove NC | 1,609 | $45K | 18.4% | 4.4% | 5% | D |
| 4,597 | Graysville TN | 1,506 | $40K | 23.7% | 14.1% | <1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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.
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?
$55,921 (±$14,581) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Addison?
17.8%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Addison?
21 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 (15%, 10 mi), Addison (14%, 2 mi), Erwin (12%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Addison walkable?
Addison is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 8% 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.