Photo: Mitchazenia · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of DeKalb Junction commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
6% of workers have no commute at all, against 15% across New York. DeKalb Junction has 21 jobs, against 165 working residents. Hardly any stay in DeKalb Junction for work; outside it, Canton is the main destination (19%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
DeKalb Junction on a workday afternoon
On a workday 165 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 21 people come in from elsewhere.
About 370 people are in DeKalb Junction on a workday afternoon, 28% 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 DeKalb Junction’s working residents head each day
Where DeKalb Junction clocks in
19% 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.
Jobs in DeKalb Junction: what the 21 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in DeKalb Junction, 2014 → 2024: 8 → 21. 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 DeKalb Junction’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From DeKalb Junction, about 28 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of DeKalb Junction workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 187 commuters (the 6% 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 DeKalb Junction to work
About 24% 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.
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 DeKalb Junction: questions
What is the median household income in DeKalb Junction?
$56,406 (±$35,021) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in DeKalb Junction?
7.6%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from DeKalb Junction?
28 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in DeKalb Junction work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Canton (19%, 6 mi), Gouverneur (13%, 14 mi), Potsdam (8%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around DeKalb Junction without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from DeKalb Junction, from the people who make the trip.
More of DeKalb Junction
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.