Cohocton has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Only 4% work in Cohocton; the top destination outside it is Wayland (10%, 5 miles). There are 125 jobs in Cohocton, against 244 working residents. A typical one-way commute lasts 26 minutes (New York 33, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Cohocton and work: the main findings
About 26 minutes each way for Cohocton’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cohocton workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 380 commuters (the 10% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Cohocton
On a workday 234 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 115 people come in from elsewhere.
About 590 people are in Cohocton on a workday afternoon, 17% 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.
Where people from Cohocton work
Where Cohocton clocks in
Lines 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 Cohocton
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cohocton, 2013 → 2023: 141 → 125. 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 Cohocton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Cohocton works
About 17% 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 Cohocton: questions
What is the median household income in Cohocton?
$66,250 (±$9,630) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cohocton?
14.1%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cohocton?
26 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cohocton work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wayland (10%, 5 mi), North Dansville (7%, 11 mi), Cohocton (7%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Cohocton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cohocton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cohocton
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.