Photo: Adam Moss · CC BY-SA 2.0Farnham has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Working from home is the commute for 8% of workers, next to 15% for New York as a whole. Farnham has 56 jobs for 176 working residents. Hardly any work in Farnham itself; outside it, Buffalo draws the most (19%, 23 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who leaves Farnham for work, and who comes in
On a workday 175 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 55 people come in from elsewhere.
About 240 people are in Farnham on a workday afternoon, 33% 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.
Where Farnham goes to work
Where Farnham clocks in
19% of workers
9% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Farnham
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Farnham, 2013 → 2023: 24 → 56. 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 Farnham’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Farnham, about 28 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Farnham workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 183 commuters (the 8% 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.
Miles to work from Farnham
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 Farnham: questions
What is the median household income in Farnham?
$97,857 (±$44,373) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Farnham?
16.0%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Farnham?
28 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Farnham work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Buffalo (19%, 23 mi), Brant (9%, 3 mi), Hamburg (9%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Farnham without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Farnham, from the people who make the trip.
More of Farnham
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.