Photo: Adam Moss from Tonawanda, New York, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Work means Otsego for about two in five of Fly Creek’s working residents
Working from home is the commute for 0% of workers (New York 15%). Hardly any stay in Fly Creek for work; outside it, Otsego is the main destination (40%, 3 miles). Fly Creek has 98 jobs, and 112 of its residents work somewhere.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who commutes out of Fly Creek, and who commutes in
On a workday 112 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 98 people come in from elsewhere.
About 100 people are in Fly Creek on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.88 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
The places Fly Creek commutes to
Where Fly Creek clocks in
8% of workers
3% 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.
In Fly Creek, 41% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fly Creek, 2014 → 2024: 51 → 98. 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 Fly Creek’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Fly Creek
of Fly Creek workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 24 commuters (the 0% 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 Fly Creek
About 35% 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.
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 Fly Creek: questions
What is the poverty rate in Fly Creek?
0.0%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Fly Creek work?
0% work in town.
Can you get around Fly Creek without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fly Creek, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fly Creek
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.