Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0Work and commuting in Cold Brook
4% of workers have no commute at all, where New York as a whole has 15%. Hardly any work in Cold Brook itself; outside it, Deerfield draws the most (10%, 7 miles). The trip to work takes 37 minutes on average (New York 33, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes Cold Brook
On a workday 115 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 0 people come in from elsewhere.
About 140 people are in Cold Brook on a workday afternoon, 45% fewer than live here.
0.00 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 the trip to work from Cold Brook ends
Where Cold Brook clocks in
10% of workers
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.
About 37 minutes each way, longer than most of New York
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cold Brook workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 96 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.
How many miles Cold Brook commutes
About 31% 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 Cold Brook: questions
What is the median household income in Cold Brook?
$104,444 (±$50,879) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cold Brook?
11.0%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cold Brook?
37 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 Cold Brook work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Deerfield (10%, 7 mi), New Hartford (10%, 18 mi), Utica (9%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Cold Brook without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cold Brook, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cold Brook
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.