Photo: DanielPenfield · CC BY-SA 4.0Canaseraga at work: jobs, income and the commute
4% of workers have no commute at all (New York 15%). Only 7% work in Canaseraga; the top destination outside it is Hornellsville (10%, 10 miles). The trip to work takes 25 minutes on average, where New York has 33 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Canaseraga, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 161 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 100 people come in from elsewhere.
About 390 people are in Canaseraga on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.65 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.
Where Canaseraga goes to work
Where Canaseraga clocks in
9% 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.
Canaseraga is a services town
113 jobs are based in Canaseraga.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Canaseraga, 2013 → 2023: 136 → 113. 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 Canaseraga’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Canaseraga: about 25 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Canaseraga workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 159 commuters (the 4% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Canaseraga
About 27% 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.
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 Canaseraga: questions
What is the median household income in Canaseraga?
$70,208 (±$7,994) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Canaseraga?
19.7%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Canaseraga?
25 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Canaseraga work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hornellsville (10%, 10 mi), Burns (10%, 2 mi), Hornell (9%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Canaseraga without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Canaseraga, from the people who make the trip.
More of Canaseraga
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.