With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Fenton works elsewhere
Employers in Fenton report 1,345 jobs for 2,651 working residents. Fenton grades C+ for jobs and income and C for walkability. For 7% of workers, the job is at home, where New York as a whole has 15%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Fenton in brief
Where Fenton’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Fenton is better than 44% of U.S. towns, #465 of 758 in New York. Job access by car holds Fenton’s grade up (ahead of 54% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (12.2%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Fenton could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Getting to work from Fenton takes about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fenton workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,512 commuters (the 7% 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 daily commute in and out of Fenton
On a workday 2,494 residents head out to work, 157 work right here, and 1,188 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,900 people are in Fenton on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
18% of working residents work in Binghamton
Where Fenton clocks in
18% of workers
14% of workers
8% 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 Fenton’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fenton, 2013 → 2023: 1,428 → 1,345. 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 Fenton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Fenton
About 21% 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.
In Fenton, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fenton is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns, #649 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 4.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,704 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). 2.2% of Fenton households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Fenton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,432 U.S. towns of 4,300 to 8,400, Fenton comes 2,106th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Lawrence NY | 6,847 | $170K | 3.5% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Irvington NY | 6,533 | $173K | 1.6% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| 17 | Kings Point NY | 5,710 | $211K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,104 | Hartwell GA | 4,914 | $49K | 12.7% | 0.8% | 16% | C+ |
| 2,105 | Westville NJ | 4,357 | $71K | 15.4% | 7.1% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,106 | Fenton NY | 6,206 | $73K | 12.2% | 4.7% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,107 | Danbury Township OH | 4,859 | $76K | 6.2% | 6.0% | 19% | C+ |
| 2,108 | Polk Township PA | 7,414 | $81K | 10.3% | 4.4% | 6% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,432 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Fenton, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Work next door: 20% of Fenton’s workers
The biggest share goes to Dickinson (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Fenton workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fenton | – | C+ | C | 21 min | $73,162 |
| Chenango | 6% | C+ | C− | 24 min | $86,646 |
| Greene | 2% | C+ | B− | 23 min | $73,481 |
| Chenango Bridge | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Colesville | under 2% | C− | C+ | 22 min | $61,317 |
| Port Dickinson | under 2% | B− | C+ | 22 min | $69,375 |
| Kirkwood | 4% | C+ | C+ | 18 min | $58,588 |
| Barker | under 2% | C− | D | 27 min | $64,348 |
| Dickinson | 8% | B | C+ | 17 min | $77,864 |
Same-state neighbors only. Chenango Bridge: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Fenton’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 Fenton: questions
What is the median household income in Fenton?
$73,162 (±$12,973) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fenton?
12.2%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fenton?
21 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fenton work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Binghamton (18%, 9 mi), Union (14%, 13 mi), Dickinson (8%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fenton walkable?
Fenton is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fenton without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fenton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fenton
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.