Caneadea Bridge · Photo: eyesofibad · CC BY-SA 3.0Caneadea is a college town: 40% of residents are students
A typical one-way commute from Caneadea lasts 20 minutes (New York 33, U.S. 26). Jobs and income earn Caneadea C+; getting around on foot earns it B. About one in seven work in Caneadea; the top destination outside it is Buffalo (6%, 51 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Caneadea
Many jobs in Caneadea pay little
53% of the jobs based in Caneadea pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 51% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Caneadea 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, and quicker than any town next door (23 to 41 minutes). Time on the road ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Caneadea
53% of Caneadea residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 29% of the jobs based in Caneadea pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 87% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
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 667 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Caneadea
On family income, poverty and job access, Caneadea is better than 38% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Caneadea’s grade up (7.4%, U.S. 11.9%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 8% of U.S. towns). It also does well on family income.
Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (16% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 7.4%, against 16.3% for all residents. Unemployment (8.4%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Income is ranked as median family income ($93,750), since student households pull the household median down ($82,563).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for family income and poverty, Caneadea could be anywhere from D to B.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Caneadea
760 jobs are based in Caneadea.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Caneadea, 2013 → 2023: 213 → 760. 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 Caneadea’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 20 minutes from Caneadea
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Caneadea workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 819 commuters (the 15% 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 leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 578 residents head out to work, 89 work right here, and 671 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.14 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Caneadea’s residents
Where Caneadea clocks in
6% of workers
4% 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.
How far it is to work from Caneadea
About 26% 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.
Getting around Caneadea: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Caneadea is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 29.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 4.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 961 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). 5.6% of Caneadea households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Caneadea’s commuters take a bus or train.
Caneadea next to U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,000: 2,827th of 5,102 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| 8 | Village of the Branch NY | 1,764 | $174K | 1.5% | 3.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 9 | Old Brookville NY | 2,098 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,825 | Lincoln NH | 1,664 | $71K | 6.2% | 2.9% | 39% | C+ |
| 2,826 | Urbana NY | 2,048 | $77K | 8.4% | 2.8% | 21% | C+ |
| 2,827 | Caneadea NY | 2,217 | $83K | 16.3% | 8.4% | 13% | C+ |
| 2,828 | Brady Township OH | 2,579 | $73K | 8.9% | 5.8% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,829 | Millersburg PA | 2,540 | $54K | 13.0% | 2.9% | 10% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,102 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Caneadea, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Work in the towns next to Caneadea
The biggest share goes to Hume (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Caneadea workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caneadea | – | C+ | B | 20 min | $82,563 |
| Rushford | under 2% | D | B− | 23 min | $58,977 |
| Belfast | 2% | C− | C− | 29 min | $64,954 |
| Hume | 3% | C− | B− | 27 min | $68,958 |
| Allen | under 2% | — | — | 41 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Allen: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Caneadea’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.
- Students. 40% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Caneadea: questions
What is the median household income in Caneadea?
$82,563 (±$12,076) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Caneadea?
16.3% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 7.4%. New York: 14.0%.
How long is the commute from Caneadea?
20 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Caneadea work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Buffalo (6%, 51 mi), Arcade (4%, 18 mi), Wellsville (4%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Caneadea walkable?
Caneadea is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 29% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Caneadea without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Caneadea, from the people who make the trip.
More of Caneadea
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.