How Elbridge works: jobs, income and commuting
Home is the office for 9% of workers, against 15% across New York. Only 3% work in Elbridge itself; outside it, Elbridge draws the most (13%, 1 miles). Commuters spend 20 minutes getting to work on average; the New York average is 33, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Elbridge and work: the main findings
Commutes from Elbridge 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 ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Elbridge
61% of Elbridge residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 37% of the jobs based in Elbridge pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 97% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Many jobs in Elbridge pay little
26% of the jobs based in Elbridge pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
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; with 398 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
About 20 minutes each way for Elbridge’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Elbridge workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 474 commuters (the 9% 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.
Goods, not services: 34% of the jobs in Elbridge
316 jobs are based in Elbridge.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Elbridge, 2013 → 2023: 361 → 316. 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 Elbridge’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In and out of Elbridge on a workday
On a workday 387 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 305 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.79 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.
Where Elbridge goes to work
Where Elbridge clocks in
13% of workers
9% 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.
How many miles Elbridge commutes
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 Elbridge: questions
What is the median household income in Elbridge?
$64,462 (±$11,615) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Elbridge?
7.3%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Elbridge?
20 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Elbridge work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Elbridge (13%, 1 mi), Syracuse (13%, 15 mi), Auburn (9%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Elbridge without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Elbridge, from the people who make the trip.
More of Elbridge
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.