First Baptist Church of Watkins Glen · Photo: Doug Kerr from now in Binghamton, NY · CC BY-SA 2.0At 9.0%, unemployment in Dix is higher than in 92% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Dix are D for jobs and income and A− for walkability. Household incomes here are lower than in 83% of U.S. towns. For 4% of workers, the job is at home, next to 15% for New York as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Dix in brief
Commutes from Dix are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 100 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Dix is where the jobs are
Dix has 2,204 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Few Dix workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 15% across New York. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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.
Where Dix’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Dix is better than 13% of U.S. towns, #709 of 758 in New York. The poverty rate holds Dix’s grade up (12.2%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Dix could be anywhere from D to C+.
Commuting from Dix: about 20 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dix workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,533 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.
Dix by day and by night
On a workday 1,025 residents head out to work, 349 work right here, and 1,855 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,300 people are in Dix on a workday afternoon, 24% more than live here.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
The towns that send workers to Dix
Where Dix clocks in
6% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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 kinds of work in Dix
2,204 jobs are based in Dix.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dix, 2013 → 2023: 2,387 → 2,204. 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 Dix’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Dix
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.
Dix is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Dix is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns, #323 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 11.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 6.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,602 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 9.3% of Dix households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Dix’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Dix is 3,979th among 4,535 U.S. towns of 2,400 to 4,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | East Williston NY | 2,616 | $215K | 2.3% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 9 | Lloyd Harbor NY | 3,587 | $250K | 2.1% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Great Neck Estates NY | 3,139 | $238K | 5.7% | 1.7% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,977 | Summit Hill PA | 3,133 | $65K | 24.0% | 8.5% | 5% | D |
| 3,978 | Pageland SC | 2,518 | $43K | 20.0% | 6.2% | 12% | D |
| 3,979 | Dix NY | 3,485 | $54K | 12.2% | 9.0% | 25% | D |
| 3,980 | Lisle NY | 2,642 | $69K | 20.0% | 9.6% | 4% | D |
| 3,981 | Woodville FL | 3,722 | $54K | 17.4% | 6.1% | 2% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,535 | 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 Dix, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
The towns next door employ 11% of Dix
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Dix workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dix | – | D | A− | 20 min | $53,668 |
| Reading | 3% | B | D | 28 min | $86,131 |
| Watkins Glen | under 3% | C− | A | 19 min | $49,632 |
| Montour | 4% | D | B+ | 18 min | $64,417 |
| Hector | 4% | C | D | 27 min | $79,904 |
| Orange | under 3% | D | D− | 30 min | $60,000 |
| Catlin | under 3% | C+ | D | 24 min | $80,956 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Montour. Darker towns draw more of Dix’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Dix: questions
What is the median household income in Dix?
$53,668 (±$8,263) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dix?
12.2%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dix?
20 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 Dix work?
25% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Corning (6%, 15 mi), Horseheads (5%, 14 mi), Elmira (4%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Dix walkable?
Dix is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 11% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dix without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dix, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dix
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.