Centreport Aqueduct · Photo: Darlingtrk · CC BY-SA 3.0Unemployment in Brutus (1.2%) is lower than in 93% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Brutus is better than 59% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (C+). About one in ten work in Brutus; the top destination outside it is Auburn (14%, 8 miles). A typical one-way commute lasts 27 minutes (New York 33, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Brutus stands out on work
Where Brutus’ Jobs & income grade comes from
Unemployment holds Brutus’ grade up; the poverty rate pulls it down (15.2%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Brutus could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Commuting from Brutus: about 27 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brutus workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,987 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 commutes out of Brutus, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,743 residents head out to work, 176 work right here, and 861 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,300 people are in Brutus on a workday afternoon, 21% fewer than live here.
0.54 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Commuting out of Brutus: the destinations
Where Brutus clocks in
14% of workers
10% 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.
What Brutus’ employers do
1,037 jobs are based in Brutus.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brutus, 2013 → 2023: 877 → 1,037. 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 Brutus’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Brutus
About 18% 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 Brutus, the car does most of the work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,180 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). 9.1% of Brutus households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Brutus’ commuters take a bus or train.
Brutus next to U.S. towns of 3,000 to 5,700: 1,712th of 3,962 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Lloyd Harbor NY | 3,587 | $250K | 2.1% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | North Hills NY | 5,481 | $173K | 3.0% | 1.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 55 | Great Neck Estates NY | 3,139 | $238K | 5.7% | 1.7% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,710 | Brillion WI | 3,327 | $58K | 12.8% | 0.0% | 23% | B |
| 1,711 | Wiscasset ME | 3,998 | $71K | 5.7% | 2.6% | 13% | B |
| 1,712 | Brutus NY | 4,224 | $77K | 15.2% | 1.2% | 9% | B |
| 1,713 | Lower Towamensing Township PA | 3,113 | $69K | 8.8% | 3.0% | 4% | B |
| 1,714 | Minden NV | 3,707 | $100K | 13.3% | 2.1% | 23% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,962 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Brutus, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Brutus and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Elbridge (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Brutus’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 Brutus: questions
What is the median household income in Brutus?
$77,031 (±$10,117) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Brutus?
15.2%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brutus?
27 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 Brutus work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Auburn (14%, 8 mi), Syracuse (10%, 20 mi), Elbridge (5%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Brutus walkable?
Brutus is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.4 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Brutus without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Brutus, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brutus
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.