Photo: Doug Kerr from Upstate New York · CC BY-SA 2.0At 2.7%, unemployment in Brockport is lower than in 75% of U.S. towns
Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 1.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 11.9 in Rochester. The two grades for Brockport are B for jobs and income and A+ for walkability. About one in ten stay in Brockport for work; outside it, Rochester is the main destination (19%, 17 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Brockport
Commutes from Brockport are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 100 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Brockport is where the jobs are
Brockport has 3,813 jobs, 1.5 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
A young workforce
31% of Brockport’s working residents are 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
Nearly all the work in Brockport is services
87% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 6% are in factories, building or farms. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Income, poverty and work: Brockport’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Brockport is better than 56% of U.S. towns, #372 of 758 in New York. Unemployment holds Brockport’s grade up; the poverty rate pulls it down (16.1%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Brockport could be anywhere from C to A−.
Brockport’s commute takes about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brockport workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,335 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.
Who works in Brockport, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 2,261 residents head out to work, 281 work right here, and 3,532 people come in from elsewhere.
About 9,000 people are in Brockport on a workday afternoon, 16% more than live here.
1.5 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 2024, primary jobs.
Brockport is a services town
3,813 jobs are based in Brockport.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brockport, 2014 → 2024: 3,662 → 3,813. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Brockport’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Brockport’s workforce comes from
Where Brockport clocks in
19% of workers
7% 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 distance from Brockport 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Good to walk, short on transit: Brockport
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Brockport is among the most walkable U.S. towns, #52 of 758 in New York. Both inputs place Brockport near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,684 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 61% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 60% 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). 9.6% of Brockport households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Brockport’s commuters take a bus or train.
Brockport is 1,590th of 3,051 U.S. towns of 5,400 to 10,400 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Lawrence NY | 6,847 | $170K | 3.5% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Irvington NY | 6,533 | $173K | 1.6% | 2.1% | 5% | A+ |
| 15 | Kings Point NY | 5,710 | $211K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,588 | Clay Township OH | 8,910 | $76K | 7.8% | 5.4% | 12% | B |
| 1,589 | Silver Lakes CA | 6,977 | $116K | 4.9% | 5.2% | 4% | B |
| 1,590 | Brockport NY | 7,736 | $70K | 16.1% | 2.7% | 11% | B |
| 1,591 | Cicero Township IN | 8,043 | $67K | 13.0% | 2.2% | 25% | B |
| 1,592 | High Springs FL | 6,762 | $94K | 13.5% | 2.9% | 6% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,051 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Brockport, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
15% of Brockport works in a town next door
The biggest share goes to Sweden (13%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Brockport’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 2024, 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 Brockport: questions
What is the median household income in Brockport?
$69,866 (±$15,116) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Brockport?
16.1%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brockport?
20 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brockport work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rochester (19%, 17 mi), Sweden (13%, 3 mi), Greece (7%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Brockport walkable?
Brockport is among the most walkable U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 13.6 out of 20, and 27% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Brockport without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. 61% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Brockport, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brockport
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.