Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Delevan are lower than in 67% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 4% of workers, against 15% across New York. The poverty rate is 16.7%, next to 14.0% for New York as a whole. Jobs and income earn Delevan D; getting around on foot earns it C+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Delevan stands out on work
The four measures behind Delevan’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Delevan is better than 14% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Delevan’s grade up ($64,194, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 17% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.4%) is left out: Delevan’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Delevan could be anywhere from D to C+.
About 33 minutes to work from Delevan
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Delevan workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 478 commuters (the 4% 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.
Who works in Delevan, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 323 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 183 people come in from elsewhere.
About 880 people are in Delevan on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.58 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
13% of working residents work in Arcade
Where Delevan clocks in
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.
The 192 jobs based in Delevan
192 jobs are based in Delevan.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Delevan, 2013 → 2023: 212 → 192. 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 Delevan’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Delevan works
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.
Most of Delevan commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Delevan is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 500 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 11.1% of Delevan households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Delevan’s commuters take a bus or train.
Delevan places 2,338th of 3,133 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Saddle Rock NY | 1,008 | $176K | 0.8% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,336 | New Hope OR | 1,296 | $65K | 19.1% | 0.0% | 2% | D |
| 2,337 | Utica SC | 1,339 | $55K | 26.8% | 12.2% | 1% | D |
| 2,338 | Delevan NY | 1,023 | $64K | 16.7% | 5.4% | 3% | D |
| 2,339 | Jackson WI | 1,183 | $60K | 15.9% | 5.3% | 1% | D |
| 2,340 | Royalton MN | 1,274 | $55K | 26.7% | 11.1% | 4% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Delevan, 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 Delevan: questions
What is the median household income in Delevan?
$64,194 (±$10,793) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Delevan?
16.7%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Delevan?
33 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Delevan work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Arcade (13%, 8 mi), Yorkshire (10%, 2 mi), Concord (8%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Delevan walkable?
Delevan is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Delevan without a car?
0% 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 Delevan, from the people who make the trip.
More of Delevan
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.