Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs and the daily commute in Delanson
Delanson has 225 jobs; 153 of its residents have a job. Only 3% work in Delanson; the top destination outside it is Albany (16%, 20 miles). The average commute takes 29 minutes each way; New York averages 33, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The workday shuffle in and out of Delanson
On a workday 148 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 220 people come in from elsewhere.
About 380 people are in Delanson on a workday afternoon, 24% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.47 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.
The towns that employ Delanson’s residents
Where Delanson clocks in
16% of workers
14% of workers
10% 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.
Delanson is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Delanson, 2013 → 2023: 253 → 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 Delanson’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 29 minutes from Delanson
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Delanson workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 108 commuters (the 12% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Delanson
About 18% 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 Delanson: questions
What is the median household income in Delanson?
$113,750 (±$34,639) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Delanson?
3.5%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Delanson?
29 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Delanson work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Albany (16%, 20 mi), Schenectady (14%, 14 mi), Duanesburg (10%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Delanson without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Delanson, from the people who make the trip.
More of Delanson
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.