How Fairmount works: jobs, income and commuting
Fairmount has 3,107 jobs; 5,062 of its residents have a job. Only 5% work in Fairmount itself; outside it, Syracuse draws the most (32%, 5 miles). The average commute takes 19 minutes each way, where New York has 33 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Fairmount
Commutes from Fairmount are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 107 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Fairmount
66% of Fairmount residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 37% of the jobs based in Fairmount pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 95% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Most Fairmount residents work close to home
68% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
Fairmount and Syracuse trade workers both ways
Syracuse is the top workplace for Fairmount residents (32%) and also where the most people who work in Fairmount come from (11% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
35% of the jobs based in Fairmount are held by workers 29 or younger, against 22% of Fairmount’s own working residents. 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.
From Fairmount, about 19 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fairmount workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,402 commuters (the 12% 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 kinds of work in Fairmount
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fairmount, 2013 → 2023: 2,868 → 3,107. 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 Fairmount’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Fairmount’s workers travel
About 16% 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.
Where people from Fairmount work
Where Fairmount clocks in
32% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Fairmount
On a workday 4,827 residents head out to work, 235 work right here, and 2,872 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,800 people are in Fairmount on a workday afternoon, 20% fewer than live here.
0.61 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Fairmount and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Fairmount workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairmount | – | — | — | 19 min | $84,225 |
| Solvay | under 3% | B− | A | 19 min | $61,166 |
| Westvale | under 3% | — | — | 18 min | — |
| Geddes | 5% | B+ | A− | 19 min | $76,839 |
Same-state neighbors only. Westvale: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Geddes. Darker towns draw more of Fairmount’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 Fairmount: questions
What is the median household income in Fairmount?
$84,225 (±$7,146) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fairmount?
8.2%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fairmount?
19 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fairmount work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Syracuse (32%, 5 mi), Camillus (9%, 4 mi), DeWitt (9%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Fairmount 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 Fairmount, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fairmount
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.