Photo: Joegrimes at English Wikipedia · Public domainCamillus has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Employers in Camillus report 161 jobs; 597 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Camillus are C+ for jobs and income and A− for walkability. Measured by household income, Camillus is behind 88% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Camillus apart on work
Camillus and Syracuse trade workers both ways
Syracuse is the top workplace for Camillus residents (25%) and also where the most people who work in Camillus come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Camillus 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 ↓
Camillus is a place people come home to
There are 161 jobs based in Camillus, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Camillus has about 820 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. 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; with 597 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Camillus
On income, poverty and job access, Camillus is better than 41% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Camillus’ grade up (ahead of 74% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($50,000, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (8.7%) is left out: Camillus’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Camillus could be anywhere from C to B.
25% of working residents work in Syracuse
Where Camillus clocks in
25% of workers
11% 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 daily trip from Camillus: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Camillus workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 614 commuters (the 13% 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.
How a workday changes Camillus
On a workday 589 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 153 people come in from elsewhere.
About 820 people are in Camillus on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
In Camillus, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Camillus, 2013 → 2023: 179 → 161. 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 Camillus’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Camillus, by distance
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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Camillus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Camillus is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 32.9% across New York.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 705 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 96% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 96% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 8.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 91% 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). 16.5% of Camillus households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Camillus’ commuters take a bus or train.
Camillus is 2,129th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Saddle Rock NY | 1,008 | $176K | 0.8% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,127 | Sweetser IN | 1,069 | $81K | 11.8% | 0.7% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,128 | Traer IA | 1,555 | $76K | 11.2% | 3.5% | 15% | C+ |
| 2,129 | Camillus NY | 1,258 | $50K | 11.0% | 8.7% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,130 | Edwards Township MI | 1,396 | $72K | 4.8% | 1.7% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,131 | Albion Township MI | 1,086 | $76K | 11.1% | 1.1% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Camillus, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
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 Camillus: questions
What is the median household income in Camillus?
$50,000 (±$12,800) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Camillus?
11.0%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Camillus?
20 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Camillus work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Syracuse (25%, 8 mi), Camillus (11%, 2 mi), DeWitt (7%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Camillus walkable?
Camillus is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 14.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Camillus without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 16% of households have no car. 96% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Camillus, from the people who make the trip.
More of Camillus
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.