Fabius Village Historic District · Photo: Crazyale · CC0With 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of Fabius works elsewhere
About one in ten work in Fabius; the top destination outside it is Syracuse (22%, 17 miles). Employers in Fabius report 489 jobs for 868 working residents. Fabius grades B− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Fabius apart on work
Fabius makes and builds things
40% of the jobs based in Fabius are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Fabius residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 21%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Fabius are quick
The average trip to work takes 27 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 868 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Fabius
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Fabius is better than 45% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Fabius’ grade up ($94,063, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (6.7%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Fabius could be anywhere from C to B+.
40% of the jobs in Fabius make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fabius, 2014 → 2024: 397 → 489. 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 Fabius’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Fabius: about 27 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fabius workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 893 commuters (the 10% 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.
Fabius quiets down on a workday
On a workday 778 residents head out to work, 90 work right here, and 399 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Fabius on a workday afternoon, 19% 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.
Commuting out of Fabius: the destinations
Where Fabius clocks in
22% of workers
5% 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 far Fabius’ workers travel
About 15% 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.
For most of Fabius, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fabius is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 3.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 989 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). 0.9% of Fabius households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Fabius’ commuters take a bus or train.
Fabius places 2,361st of 5,234 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| 8 | Village of the Branch NY | 1,764 | $174K | 1.5% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,359 | Lake Edward Township MN | 2,234 | $82K | 6.7% | 5.2% | 5% | B− |
| 2,360 | Nelson NY | 1,879 | $82K | 7.8% | 3.1% | 8% | B− |
| 2,361 | Fabius NY | 1,961 | $94K | 8.3% | 6.7% | 10% | B− |
| 2,362 | Yates NY | 2,520 | $87K | 18.8% | 1.3% | 13% | B− |
| 2,363 | Columbus Township PA | 1,540 | $73K | 5.5% | 1.8% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,234 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Fabius, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
The towns around Fabius
The biggest share goes to Tully (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Fabius workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fabius | – | B− | C+ | 27 min | $94,063 |
| Tully | 3% | B+ | B+ | 28 min | $108,529 |
| DeRuyter | under 2% | C | C− | 30 min | $74,583 |
| Cuyler | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Pompey | 3% | B | C+ | 21 min | $111,000 |
| Truxton | under 2% | — | — | 29 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Cuyler: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Truxton: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Fabius’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 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 Fabius: questions
What is the median household income in Fabius?
$94,063 (±$11,100) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fabius?
8.3%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fabius?
27 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fabius work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Syracuse (22%, 17 mi), DeWitt (11%, 17 mi), Manlius (5%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Fabius walkable?
Fabius is more walkable than 38% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 3.2 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fabius without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fabius, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fabius
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. 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.