Hutchinson Homestead · Photo: Doncram · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Aurelius earn more than those in 72% of U.S. towns
At home: 4% of workers have no commute at all (New York 15%). Poverty touches 9.7% of residents (New York 14.0%). For jobs and income Aurelius is better than 52% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (B−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Aurelius, in brief
Commutes from Aurelius are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 107 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
A lot of Aurelius works one town over
32% of working residents work in a town that borders Aurelius: Auburn (22%), Seneca Falls (4%) and Springport (3%). Next door ↓
Aurelius makes and builds things
39% of the jobs based in Aurelius are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Aurelius residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 25%. The jobs ↓
Few Aurelius 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 ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
41% of the jobs in Aurelius are in trade, transport and utilities, against 18% of the jobs its residents hold. 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.
Aurelius’ Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
Household income holds Aurelius’ grade up ($94,079, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 40% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Aurelius could be anywhere from C to A−.
A commute of about 19 minutes in Aurelius
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Aurelius workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,264 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.
A place that makes things: 39% of Aurelius’ jobs are in goods
1,699 jobs are based in Aurelius.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Aurelius, 2013 → 2023: 1,932 → 1,699. 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 Aurelius’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Aurelius
On a workday 1,079 residents head out to work, 82 work right here, and 1,617 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,200 people are in Aurelius on a workday afternoon, 20% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.46 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.
22% of working residents work in Auburn
Where Aurelius clocks in
22% of workers
4% 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.
How far Aurelius goes to work
About 16% 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.
Most of Aurelius commutes by car
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,321 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 52% 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 5.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 86% 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). 4.5% of Aurelius households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Aurelius’ commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Aurelius is 2,115th among 4,797 U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,600
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Old Brookville NY | 2,098 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | East Williston NY | 2,616 | $215K | 2.3% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 10 | Laurel Hollow NY | 1,949 | $250K | 3.5% | 2.2% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,113 | Imlay Township MI | 3,192 | $83K | 6.2% | 5.1% | 3% | B− |
| 2,114 | Canosia Township MN | 2,187 | $88K | 4.9% | 8.1% | 3% | B− |
| 2,115 | Aurelius NY | 2,643 | $94K | 9.7% | 4.7% | 7% | B− |
| 2,116 | Washington Park FL | 2,402 | $61K | 9.2% | 5.8% | <1% | B− |
| 2,117 | Navy Yard City WA | 2,672 | $70K | 21.9% | 0.7% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,797 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Aurelius, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
32% of Aurelius works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Auburn (22%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Aurelius workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aurelius | – | B− | B− | 19 min | $94,079 |
| Springport | 3% | B+ | B | 23 min | $86,042 |
| Auburn | 22% | C− | A | 20 min | $51,052 |
| Seneca Falls | 4% | C | B+ | 17 min | $62,487 |
| Montezuma | under 3% | B− | D− | 23 min | $73,250 |
| Tyre | under 3% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Throop | under 3% | B+ | D | 26 min | $90,268 |
| Fleming | 3% | B+ | C | 18 min | $92,216 |
| Cayuga | under 3% | — | — | 21 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Tyre: not graded. Cayuga: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Aurelius’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 Aurelius: questions
What is the median household income in Aurelius?
$94,079 (±$15,640) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Aurelius?
9.7%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Aurelius?
19 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 Aurelius work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Auburn (22%, 5 mi), Owasco (6%, 9 mi), Syracuse (4%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Aurelius walkable?
Aurelius is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.4 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Aurelius without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Aurelius, from the people who make the trip.
More of Aurelius
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.