Photo: Dougtone · CC BY-SA 2.0Avoca has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Avoca grades C for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Employers in Avoca report 301 jobs; 692 of its residents have a job. 6% of workers work from home, where New York as a whole has 15%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Avoca: the figures worth knowing
Where Avoca’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Avoca is better than 34% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Avoca’s grade up (2.9%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 12% of U.S. towns).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Avoca could be anywhere from C− to B−.
From Avoca, about 26 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Avoca workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,094 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.
Who works in Avoca, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 634 residents head out to work, 58 work right here, and 243 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Avoca on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
14% of working residents work in Bath
Where Avoca clocks in
14% of workers
8% of workers
6% 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 Avoca: what the 301 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Avoca, 2013 → 2023: 317 → 301. 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 Avoca’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Avoca works
About 21% 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.
Driving is how Avoca gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Avoca is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 4.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,165 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). 7.1% of Avoca households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Avoca’s commuters take a bus or train.
Avoca next to U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,600: 3,331st of 5,921 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,329 | Hamlin TX | 1,876 | $61K | 13.4% | 1.8% | 23% | C |
| 3,330 | Aubbeenaubbee Township IN | 1,347 | $78K | 9.3% | 9.5% | 1% | C |
| 3,331 | Avoca NY | 1,927 | $68K | 13.3% | 2.9% | 8% | C |
| 3,332 | Greene Township PA | 1,812 | $74K | 10.2% | 0.7% | 12% | C |
| 3,333 | Franklin Township PA | 2,272 | $57K | 10.9% | 8.5% | 5% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Avoca, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
14% of Avoca works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Bath. Darker towns draw more of Avoca’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 Avoca: questions
What is the median household income in Avoca?
$67,730 (±$9,325) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Avoca?
13.3%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Avoca?
26 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 Avoca work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bath (14%, 10 mi), Hornell (8%, 13 mi), Corning (6%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Avoca walkable?
Avoca is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Avoca without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Avoca, from the people who make the trip.
More of Avoca
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.