Conesus Amusement Hall · Photo: Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD · CC BY-SA 4.0Conesus has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Employers in Conesus report 126 jobs for 1,069 working residents. The two grades for Conesus are B− for jobs and income and C for walkability. Only 3% work in Conesus itself; outside it, Rochester draws the most (13%, 32 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Conesus, in brief
Conesus is a place people come home to
There are 126 jobs based in Conesus, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Conesus has about 1,400 people in it, 41% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Conesus’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Conesus is Rochester, 32 miles away as the crow flies. 13% of working residents (136) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. 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.
Conesus’ Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Conesus is better than 50% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Conesus’ grade up (7.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 26% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (3.5%) is left out: Conesus’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, Conesus could be anywhere from C to B+.
The workday shuffle in and out of Conesus
On a workday 1,035 residents head out to work, 34 work right here, and 92 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Conesus on a workday afternoon, 41% 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.
How many miles Conesus commutes
About 16% 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.
Where the trip to work from Conesus ends
Where Conesus clocks in
13% of workers
7% 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.
Goods jobs make up 37% of work in Conesus
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Conesus, 2013 → 2023: 100 → 126. 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 Conesus’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 31 minutes in Conesus
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Conesus workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 754 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.
In Conesus, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Conesus is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 3.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 839 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 0.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 45% 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). 0.7% of Conesus households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Conesus’ commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Conesus is 2,263rd among 5,328 U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,100
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,261 | Parchment MI | 1,887 | $73K | 6.6% | 8.1% | 4% | B− |
| 2,262 | Gridley Township IL | 1,845 | $63K | 4.6% | 2.1% | 3% | B− |
| 2,263 | Conesus NY | 2,323 | $80K | 7.0% | 3.5% | 3% | B− |
| 2,264 | Garner IA | 3,029 | $71K | 11.5% | 1.9% | 32% | B− |
| 2,265 | Holcomb KS | 2,190 | $79K | 12.2% | 3.2% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,328 | 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 Conesus, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Conesus and its neighbors: 14% work next door
The biggest share goes to Livonia (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Conesus workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conesus | – | B− | C | 31 min | $80,341 |
| Canadice | under 3% | B− | C− | 32 min | $67,740 |
| Groveland | under 3% | C | C | 28 min | $81,691 |
| Livonia | 9% | B− | B+ | 26 min | $89,149 |
| Springwater | under 3% | B | D− | 31 min | $84,670 |
| Sparta | under 3% | C+ | D | 30 min | $87,663 |
| Geneseo | 5% | B+ | A+ | 20 min | $65,670 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Conesus’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.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Conesus: questions
What is the median household income in Conesus?
$80,341 (±$17,485) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Conesus?
7.0%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Conesus?
31 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 Conesus work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rochester (13%, 32 mi), Livonia (9%, 7 mi), Henrietta (7%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Conesus walkable?
Conesus is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 3.6 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Conesus without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Conesus, from the people who make the trip.
More of Conesus
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.