Photo: Doug Kerr from Upstate New York · CC BY-SA 2.0Evans has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Employers in Evans report 3,454 jobs, against 6,984 working residents. The two grades for Evans are B− for jobs and income and B for walkability. About one in seven work in Evans; the top destination outside it is Buffalo (20%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Evans: the figures worth knowing
How Evans earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Evans is better than 55% of U.S. towns, #378 of 758 in New York. Job access by car holds Evans’ grade up (ahead of 63% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (11.9%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Evans could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
How many people are in Evans by day
On a workday 6,071 residents head out to work, 913 work right here, and 2,541 people come in from elsewhere.
About 12,000 people are in Evans on a workday afternoon, 23% 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 2023, primary jobs.
Out of Evans to work: where people go
Where Evans clocks in
20% of workers
12% of workers
7% 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 Evans’ employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Evans, 2013 → 2023: 4,409 → 3,454. 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 Evans’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 29 minutes each way for Evans’ commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Evans workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6,301 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.
The distance from Evans to work
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.
Evans is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Evans is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns, #458 of 758 in New York. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 32.9% across New York.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 6,907 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 39% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 24% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.6 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 52% 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). 5.2% of Evans households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Evans’ commuters take a bus or train.
How Evans ranks: 1,170th of 1,969 U.S. towns of 11,000 to 20,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| 2 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Floral Park NY | 16,105 | $150K | 3.0% | 3.1% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 67 | North Castle NY | 12,360 | $208K | 3.8% | 3.1% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 95 | Victor NY | 16,422 | $116K | 2.8% | 1.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,168 | Mayfield Heights OH | 19,667 | $67K | 8.5% | 5.7% | 8% | B− |
| 1,169 | Marco Island FL | 16,421 | $102K | 7.3% | 4.8% | 36% | B− |
| 1,170 | Evans NY | 15,040 | $72K | 11.9% | 3.4% | 13% | B− |
| 1,171 | Ojus FL | 19,198 | $69K | 12.5% | 4.9% | 6% | B− |
| 1,172 | Hartselle AL | 16,312 | $76K | 13.3% | 3.1% | 15% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,969 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Evans, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
The towns next door employ 12% of Evans
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Hamburg. Darker towns draw more of Evans’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 Evans: questions
What is the median household income in Evans?
$72,467 (±$7,788) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Evans?
11.9%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Evans?
29 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 Evans work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Buffalo (20%, 18 mi), Hamburg (12%, 10 mi), Amherst (7%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Evans walkable?
Evans is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Evans without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 24% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Evans, from the people who make the trip.
More of Evans
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.