Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Dansville have lower incomes than those in 78% of U.S. towns
For a town this walkable, transit is thin: about 0.7 trips an hour at the evening peak near the typical resident, next to 11.9 in Rochester. Below the poverty line: 6.7% of residents; New York has 14.0%. The two grades for Dansville are C for jobs and income and A for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Dansville stands out on work
Dansville trades workers with the towns around it
Dansville has about as many jobs (1,791) as working residents (1,908), but they are mostly different people: 1,511 residents leave for work each day while 1,394 people come in. Only 22% of the jobs in Dansville are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Dansville and North Dansville trade workers both ways
North Dansville is the top workplace for Dansville residents (25%) and also where the most people who work in Dansville come from (25% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Dansville are quick
The average trip to work takes 27 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. 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.
Dansville’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Dansville is better than 34% of U.S. towns, #546 of 758 in New York. The poverty rate holds Dansville’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($57,329, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Dansville could be anywhere from C− to B.
The workday shuffle in and out of Dansville
On a workday 1,511 residents head out to work, 397 work right here, and 1,394 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.94 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
25% of working residents work in North Dansville
Where Dansville clocks in
7% of workers
6% 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.
A commute of about 27 minutes in Dansville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dansville workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,962 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.
Inside Dansville’s 1,791 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dansville, 2013 → 2023: 1,914 → 1,791. 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 Dansville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Dansville’s workers travel
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.
Dansville is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Dansville is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns, #156 of 758 in New York. Both inputs place Dansville near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,131 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 53% 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). 10.7% of Dansville households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Dansville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Dansville next to U.S. towns of 3,000 to 5,900: 2,827th of 4,136 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Lloyd Harbor NY | 3,587 | $250K | 2.1% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Kings Point NY | 5,710 | $211K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | North Hills NY | 5,481 | $173K | 3.0% | 1.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,825 | Copake NY | 3,205 | $114K | 13.5% | 5.7% | 11% | C |
| 2,826 | Belpre Township OH | 3,815 | $79K | 9.8% | 5.1% | 4% | C |
| 2,827 | Dansville NY | 4,342 | $57K | 6.7% | 4.8% | 21% | C |
| 2,828 | Ulysses NY | 4,728 | $71K | 6.6% | 8.1% | 12% | C |
| 2,829 | Canaan Township PA | 3,701 | $73K | 12.5% | 1.6% | 5% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,136 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Dansville, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
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 Dansville: questions
What is the median household income in Dansville?
$57,329 (±$7,127) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dansville?
6.7%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dansville?
27 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 Dansville work?
21% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are North Dansville (25%, 0 mi), Rochester (7%, 42 mi), Geneseo (6%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Dansville walkable?
Dansville is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 12.4 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dansville without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dansville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dansville
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.