Photo: Mwanner · CC BY-SA 3.0Cranberry Lake has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Home is the office for 39% of workers, where New York as a whole has 15%. Cranberry Lake has 6 jobs for 39 working residents. Hardly any stay in Cranberry Lake for work; outside it, Fine is the main destination (21%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Cranberry Lake quiets down on a workday
On a workday 39 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 6 people come in from elsewhere.
About 190 people are in Cranberry Lake on a workday afternoon, 15% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where Cranberry Lake goes to work
Where Cranberry Lake clocks in
21% of workers
10% of workers
8% 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.
In Cranberry Lake, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cranberry Lake, 2014 → 2024: 3 → 6. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cranberry Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 24 minutes in Cranberry Lake
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cranberry Lake workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 43 commuters (the 39% 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 distance from Cranberry Lake to work
About 46% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Around Cranberry Lake: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Cranberry Lake workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cranberry Lake | – | — | — | 24 min | $89,063 |
| Colton | under 3% | C− | C | 28 min | $69,156 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Cranberry Lake’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 2024, 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 Cranberry Lake: questions
What is the median household income in Cranberry Lake?
$89,063 (±$25,051) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cranberry Lake?
6.4%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cranberry Lake?
24 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 39% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cranberry Lake work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fine (21%, 11 mi), New York City (10%, 248 mi), Canton (8%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Cranberry Lake without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cranberry Lake, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cranberry Lake
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.