East Worcester has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
0% of workers have no commute at all (New York 15%). There are 33 jobs in East Worcester; 128 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in East Worcester; the top destination outside it is Worcester (10%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How a workday changes East Worcester
On a workday 128 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 33 people come in from elsewhere.
About 180 people are in East Worcester on a workday afternoon, 35% 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 people from East Worcester work
Where East Worcester clocks in
8% 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.
What East Worcester’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in East Worcester, 2014 → 2024: 32 → 33. 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 East Worcester’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 24 minutes each way, quicker than most of New York
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of East Worcester workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 129 commuters (the 0% 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.
How far it is to work from East Worcester
About 22% 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 East Worcester: questions
What is the poverty rate in East Worcester?
27.0%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from East Worcester?
24 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in East Worcester work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Worcester (10%, 4 mi), Oneonta (8%, 23 mi), Cobleskill (6%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around East Worcester without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from East Worcester, from the people who make the trip.
More of East Worcester
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.