Crest View Heights has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Hardly any work in Crest View Heights; the top destination outside it is Owego (21%, 4 miles). 225 jobs are based in Crest View Heights, and 714 of its residents work somewhere. At home: 27% of workers have no commute at all (New York 15%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Crest View Heights at work: what stands out
Crest View Heights and Union trade workers both ways
Union is the top workplace for Crest View Heights residents (16%) and also where the most people who work in Crest View Heights come from (23% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Crest View Heights are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 107 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Home offices are common in Crest View Heights
27% of Crest View Heights workers work from home, against 15% across New York. Time on the road ↓
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; with 714 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where people from Crest View Heights work
Where Crest View Heights clocks in
21% of workers
16% 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.
The trip to work from Crest View Heights: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Crest View Heights workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 653 commuters (the 27% 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 Crest View Heights
On a workday 712 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 223 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Crest View Heights on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Crest View Heights
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crest View Heights, 2013 → 2023: 310 → 225. 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 Crest View Heights’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Crest View Heights works
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.
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 Crest View Heights: questions
What is the median household income in Crest View Heights?
$167,083 (±$29,497) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Crest View Heights?
1.0%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Crest View Heights?
19 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 27% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Crest View Heights work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Owego (21%, 4 mi), Union (16%, 6 mi), Vestal (8%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Crest View Heights without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Crest View Heights, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crest View Heights
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.