East Charity Shoal Light · Public domainJobs and earnings in Cape Vincent, and the trip to work
There are 308 jobs in Cape Vincent for 208 working residents. About one in seven work in Cape Vincent; the top destination outside it is Cape Vincent (18%, 2 miles). The trip to work takes 25 minutes on average, next to 33 for New York and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Cape Vincent, in brief
Cape Vincent and Cape Vincent trade workers both ways
Cape Vincent is the top workplace for Cape Vincent residents (18%) and also where the most people who work in Cape Vincent come from (19% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The jobs in Cape Vincent pay better than its residents’ jobs
75% of the jobs based in Cape Vincent pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 50% of the jobs Cape Vincent residents hold. 92% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Cape Vincent. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
32% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 208 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Cape Vincent goes to work
Where Cape Vincent clocks in
15% 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.
Most jobs in Cape Vincent are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cape Vincent, 2013 → 2023: 415 → 308. 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 Cape Vincent’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Cape Vincent
About 32% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Cape Vincent
On a workday 183 residents head out to work, 25 work right here, and 283 people come in from elsewhere.
About 810 people are in Cape Vincent on a workday afternoon, 14% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.48 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.
From Cape Vincent, about 25 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cape Vincent workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 252 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.
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 Cape Vincent: questions
What is the median household income in Cape Vincent?
$62,054 (±$20,099) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cape Vincent?
11.6%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cape Vincent?
25 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 Cape Vincent work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cape Vincent (18%, 2 mi), Watertown (16%, 23 mi), Clayton (15%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Cape Vincent without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cape Vincent, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cape Vincent
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.