Photo: J. Passepartout · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Canisteo works elsewhere
Canisteo grades D for jobs and income and A− for walkability. 379 jobs are based in Canisteo for 822 working residents. Measured by household income, Canisteo is behind 83% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Canisteo in brief
Commutes from Canisteo are quick
The average trip to work takes 24 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 69 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Canisteo workers work from home
Only 2% of workers work from home, against 15% across New York. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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 822 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Canisteo’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Canisteo is better than 9% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Canisteo’s grade.
Unemployment (10.3%) is left out: Canisteo’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, Canisteo could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Canisteo’s commute takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Canisteo workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 763 commuters (the 2% 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.
A workday in Canisteo: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 715 residents head out to work, 107 work right here, and 272 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Canisteo on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
18% of working residents work in Hornell
Where Canisteo clocks in
18% of workers
14% 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 kinds of work in Canisteo
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Canisteo, 2013 → 2023: 452 → 379. 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 Canisteo’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Canisteo
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.
Canisteo is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Canisteo is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 10.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 7.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 780 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). 19.3% of Canisteo households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Canisteo’s commuters take a bus or train.
Canisteo is 4,664th of 5,404 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,662 | Albany KY | 1,729 | $44K | 13.6% | 3.3% | 22% | D |
| 4,663 | Manton MI | 1,626 | $46K | 13.5% | 3.0% | 9% | D |
| 4,664 | Canisteo NY | 2,140 | $54K | 16.6% | 10.3% | 13% | D |
| 4,665 | Salina UT | 2,640 | $64K | 15.7% | 10.5% | 24% | D |
| 4,666 | Buena Vista Township IL | 1,852 | $71K | 38.7% | 8.0% | 4% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | 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 Canisteo, 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 Canisteo: questions
What is the median household income in Canisteo?
$53,558 (±$8,505) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Canisteo?
16.6%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Canisteo?
24 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Canisteo work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hornell (18%, 5 mi), Canisteo (14%, 5 mi), Hornellsville (6%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Canisteo walkable?
Canisteo is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Canisteo without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 19% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Canisteo, from the people who make the trip.
More of Canisteo
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.