Photo: Pete716 · CC BY-SA 4.0Corning has 1.9 jobs for every working resident: 7,439 people commute in to work
For jobs and income Corning is better than 33% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 96% of U.S. towns (A+). Corning has 8,725 jobs, and 4,649 of its residents work somewhere. About one in four stay in Corning for work; outside it, Erwin is the main destination (13%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Corning apart on work
Commutes from Corning are quick
The average trip to work takes 18 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 115 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Corning is where the jobs are
Corning has 8,725 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Nearly all the work in Corning is services
86% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 6% are in factories, building or farms. The jobs ↓
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.
Corning’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
Job access by car holds Corning’s grade up (ahead of 55% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (5.8%, U.S. 5.2%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Corning could be anywhere from C− to B−.
The trip to work from Corning: about 18 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Corning workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,627 commuters (the 12% 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.
Who commutes out of Corning, and who commutes in
On a workday 3,363 residents head out to work and 1,286 work right here.
About 15,000 people are in Corning on a workday afternoon, 39% more 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Corning
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Corning, 2013 → 2023: 7,763 → 8,725. 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 Corning’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where the people who work in Corning live
Where Corning clocks in
13% of workers
9% of workers
5% 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.
Half of Corning commutes less than 5 miles
About 21% 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.
Corning is easy on foot, hard by bus
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 5,254 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 41% 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). 18.0% of Corning households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Corning’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Corning is 2,159th of 2,878 U.S. towns of 7,000 to 14,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 98 | East Rockaway NY | 10,096 | $125K | 2.6% | 3.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 101 | North Castle NY | 12,360 | $208K | 3.8% | 3.1% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 131 | Hastings-on-Hudson NY | 8,440 | $194K | 2.3% | 4.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,157 | Citrus Springs FL | 12,215 | $68K | 11.6% | 4.2% | 2% | C |
| 2,158 | South Daytona FL | 13,894 | $57K | 16.9% | 4.8% | 6% | C |
| 2,159 | Corning NY | 10,514 | $62K | 11.7% | 5.8% | 28% | C |
| 2,160 | Morehead City NC | 10,434 | $56K | 18.1% | 2.0% | 31% | C |
| 2,161 | Laurens SC | 9,327 | $49K | 25.4% | 1.9% | 13% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 2,878 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Corning, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Work in the towns next to Corning
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Corning workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corning | – | C | A+ | 18 min | $61,760 |
| Riverside | under 1% | — | — | 18 min | — |
| South Corning | under 1% | C | D | 17 min | $58,750 |
Same-state neighbors only. Riverside: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Corning’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 Corning: questions
What is the median household income in Corning?
$61,760 (±$4,925) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Corning?
11.7%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Corning?
18 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Corning work?
28% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Erwin (13%, 4 mi), Corning (9%, 2 mi), Horseheads (5%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Corning walkable?
Corning is more walkable than 96% of U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 12.3 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Corning without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 18% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Corning, from the people who make the trip.
More of Corning
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.