Cumberland Head has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Home is the office for 8% of workers, next to 15% for New York as a whole. Employers in Cumberland Head report 93 jobs for 739 working residents. Hardly any work in Cumberland Head; the top destination outside it is Plattsburgh (30%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Cumberland Head: the figures worth knowing
Cumberland Head is a place people come home to
There are 93 jobs based in Cumberland Head, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Cumberland Head has about 890 people in it, 42% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Cumberland Head and Plattsburgh trade workers both ways
Plattsburgh is the top workplace for Cumberland Head residents (30%) and also where the most people who work in Cumberland Head come from (16% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Most Cumberland Head residents work close to home
65% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. 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; with 739 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How many people are in Cumberland Head by day
On a workday 737 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 91 people come in from elsewhere.
About 890 people are in Cumberland Head on a workday afternoon, 42% 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.
Where the trip to work from Cumberland Head ends
Where Cumberland Head clocks in
30% of workers
26% 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.
Where in the region Cumberland Head 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 Cumberland Head’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cumberland Head, 2013 → 2023: 157 → 93. 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 Cumberland Head’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 26 minutes to work from Cumberland Head
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cumberland Head workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 632 commuters (the 8% 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.
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 Cumberland Head: questions
What is the median household income in Cumberland Head?
$108,182 (±$19,623) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cumberland Head?
1.4%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cumberland Head?
26 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cumberland Head work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Plattsburgh (30%, 4 mi), Plattsburgh (26%, 6 mi), Beekmantown (8%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Cumberland Head without a car?
1% 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 Cumberland Head, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cumberland Head
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.