Salem Welsh Church · Photo: Pubdog · Public domainFreedom has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
For 7% of workers, the job is at home (New York 15%). Employers in Freedom report 325 jobs; 927 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Freedom C+; getting around on foot earns it D.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Freedom: the figures worth knowing
Freedom makes and builds things
67% of the jobs based in Freedom are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Freedom residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 30%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Freedom are quick
The average trip to work takes 28 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
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; with 927 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Freedom gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Freedom is better than 45% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Freedom’s grade up (7.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 5% of U.S. towns). It also does well on unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Freedom could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Goods, not services: 67% of the jobs in Freedom
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Freedom, 2013 → 2023: 181 → 325. 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 Freedom’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Freedom, about 28 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Freedom workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,327 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.
Who works in Freedom, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 841 residents head out to work, 86 work right here, and 239 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Freedom on a workday afternoon, 27% 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 Arcade
Where Freedom clocks in
3% 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.
How many miles Freedom commutes
About 15% 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.
Driving is how Freedom gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Freedom is more walkable than 11% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 3.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,426 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). 2.5% of Freedom households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Freedom’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,672nd of 5,641: where Freedom ranks among U.S. towns of 1,500 to 3,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| 8 | Village of the Branch NY | 1,764 | $174K | 1.5% | 3.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 9 | Old Brookville NY | 2,098 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,670 | North Spearfish SD | 1,858 | $77K | 23.2% | 0.0% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,671 | Woodstock AL | 1,653 | $73K | 14.1% | 7.3% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,672 | Freedom NY | 2,196 | $74K | 7.0% | 3.3% | 9% | C+ |
| 2,673 | Stephentown NY | 2,782 | $89K | 3.7% | 18.8% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,674 | Center Township OH | 1,728 | $76K | 7.7% | 14.5% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,641 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Freedom, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Freedom and its neighbors: 21% work next door
The biggest share goes to Arcade (18%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Freedom workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freedom | – | C+ | D | 28 min | $73,646 |
| Farmersville | under 3% | D− | C+ | 25 min | $48,295 |
| Yorkshire | 3% | C− | C | 27 min | $48,097 |
| Arcade | 18% | C | C+ | 29 min | $62,011 |
| Centerville | under 3% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Rushford | under 3% | D | B− | 23 min | $58,977 |
| Arcade | under 3% | D | B | 28 min | $58,695 |
Same-state neighbors only. Centerville: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Freedom’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 Freedom: questions
What is the median household income in Freedom?
$73,646 (±$24,231) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Freedom?
7.0%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Freedom?
28 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 Freedom work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Arcade (18%, 7 mi), Yorkshire (3%, 7 mi), Buffalo (3%, 38 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Freedom walkable?
Freedom is more walkable than 11% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.3 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Freedom without a car?
0% 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 Freedom, from the people who make the trip.
More of Freedom
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.