Photo: Bimala Rai Colavito · CC BY-SA 4.0Forest Home has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
A typical one-way commute lasts 20 minutes, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. Forest Home has 18 jobs; 185 of its residents have a job. Hardly any stay in Forest Home for work; outside it, Ithaca is the main destination (24%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Who works in Forest Home, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 184 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 17 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Forest Home on a workday afternoon, 13% 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.
Where the trip to work from Forest Home ends
Where Forest Home clocks in
24% of workers
12% of workers
4% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Forest Home
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Forest Home, 2014 → 2024: 1 → 18. 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 Forest Home’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 20 minutes in Forest Home
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Forest Home workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 482 commuters (the 20% 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 Forest Home
About 57% 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 Forest Home: questions
What is the median household income in Forest Home?
$59,018 (±$30,155) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Forest Home?
10.8%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Forest Home?
20 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Forest Home work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ithaca (24%, 4 mi), New York City (12%, 180 mi), Syracuse (4%, 44 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Forest Home without a car?
24% of commuters take transit and 20% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Forest Home, from the people who make the trip.
More of Forest Home
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.