Photo: Tjcomputer92 · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Baiting Hollow works elsewhere
Working residents average 31 minutes each way, next to 33 for New York and 26 for the U.S. There are 515 jobs in Baiting Hollow, against 1,399 working residents. Only 2% work in Baiting Hollow; the top destination outside it is Riverhead (22%, 2 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Baiting Hollow, in a few figures
Baiting Hollow’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Baiting Hollow is New York City, 65 miles away as the crow flies. 14% of working residents (201) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Baiting Hollow makes and builds things
51% of the jobs based in Baiting Hollow are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Baiting Hollow residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 16%. The jobs ↓
Baiting Hollow empties out on a workday
About 1,700 people are in Baiting Hollow on a workday afternoon, 34% fewer than the 2,600 who live here: 1,400 head out to work and 480 come in. Day and night ↓
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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Baiting Hollow
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.
Goods, not services: 51% of the jobs in Baiting Hollow
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Baiting Hollow, 2013 → 2023: 468 → 515. 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 Baiting Hollow’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Baiting Hollow, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,366 residents head out to work, 33 work right here, and 482 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Baiting Hollow on a workday afternoon, 34% 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.
Commuting out of Baiting Hollow: the destinations
Where Baiting Hollow clocks in
22% of workers
14% of workers
13% 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.
Each way, about 31 minutes from Baiting Hollow
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Baiting Hollow workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,061 commuters (the 9% 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.
Baiting Hollow and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Baiting Hollow workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baiting Hollow | – | — | — | 31 min | $108,571 |
| Calverton | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Wading River | under 2% | — | — | 33 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Calverton and Wading River: Census-designated places inside larger towns, graded as part of them. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Baiting Hollow’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 Baiting Hollow: questions
What is the median household income in Baiting Hollow?
$108,571 (±$23,142) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Baiting Hollow?
2.6%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Baiting Hollow?
31 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Baiting Hollow work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Riverhead (22%, 2 mi), New York City (14%, 65 mi), Brookhaven (13%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Baiting Hollow without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Baiting Hollow, from the people who make the trip.
More of Baiting Hollow
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.