Unemployment in Arcade (7.3%) is higher than in 84% of U.S. towns
Arcade grades D for jobs and income and B for walkability. For 6% of workers, the job is at home, next to 15% for New York as a whole. Household incomes here are lower than in 76% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Arcade, in brief
Arcade and Arcade trade workers both ways
Arcade is the top workplace for Arcade residents (21%) and also where the most people who work in Arcade come from (18% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Arcade is where the jobs are
Arcade has 1,286 jobs, 1.7 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Arcade than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Arcade fell from 2,808 in 2013 to 1,286 in 2023, −54%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
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 759 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Arcade’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Arcade is better than 8% of U.S. towns. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Arcade’s grade.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Arcade could be anywhere from D− to C+.
The daily trip into Arcade
Where Arcade clocks in
8% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Arcade
On a workday 658 residents head out to work, 101 work right here, and 1,185 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,400 people are in Arcade on a workday afternoon, 28% more than live here.
1.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
A place that makes things: 42% of Arcade’s jobs are in goods
1,286 jobs are based in Arcade.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Arcade, 2013 → 2023: 2,808 → 1,286. 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 Arcade’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 28 minutes in Arcade
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Arcade workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 912 commuters (the 6% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Arcade
About 20% 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 Arcade, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Arcade is more walkable than 57% 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 5.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 973 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). 16.9% of Arcade households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Arcade’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,921 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,600, Arcade comes 5,099th on jobs and income
| # | 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 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,097 | Guthrie KY | 1,395 | $36K | 33.0% | 16.5% | 8% | D |
| 5,098 | Sarcoxie MO | 1,429 | $42K | 25.4% | 5.8% | 6% | D |
| 5,099 | Arcade NY | 1,911 | $59K | 17.7% | 7.3% | 13% | D |
| 5,100 | Locust Grove OK | 1,397 | $49K | 18.1% | 3.5% | 13% | D |
| 5,101 | Ritzville WA | 1,709 | $56K | 14.0% | 2.8% | 32% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,921 | 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 Arcade, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
How Arcade compares with the towns next door
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Arcade’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 Arcade: questions
What is the median household income in Arcade?
$58,695 (±$3,695) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Arcade?
17.7%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Arcade?
28 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Arcade work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Arcade (21%, 4 mi), Yorkshire (8%, 6 mi), Aurora (5%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Arcade walkable?
Arcade is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Arcade without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 17% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Arcade, from the people who make the trip.
More of Arcade
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.