Most of Granby commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
645 jobs are based in Granby for 2,739 working residents. Granby grades B− for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Only 3% work in Granby; the top destination outside it is Fulton (13%, 2 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Granby, in brief
Stores, warehouses and trucking
61% of the jobs in Granby are in trade, transport and utilities, against 26% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Granby
61% of Granby residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 36% of the jobs based in Granby pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 97% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Granby is a place people come home to
There are 645 jobs based in Granby, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Granby has about 4,400 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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.
What’s behind Granby’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Granby is better than 52% of U.S. towns, #396 of 758 in New York. Unemployment holds Granby’s grade up (3.1%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (13.8%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Granby could be anywhere from C to A−.
What Granby’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Granby, 2013 → 2023: 592 → 645. 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 Granby’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How a workday changes Granby
On a workday 2,645 residents head out to work, 94 work right here, and 551 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,400 people are in Granby on a workday afternoon, 32% 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 Granby’s working residents head each day
Where Granby clocks in
11% 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.
Getting to work from Granby takes about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Granby workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,768 commuters (the 10% 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 commute from Granby, by distance
About 19% 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.
For most of Granby, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Granby is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns, #512 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,081 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 38% 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 1.5 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 64% 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). 1.8% of Granby households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Granby’s commuters take a bus or train.
Granby places 1,730th of 3,218 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 4,600 to 8,800
| # | 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 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Lawrence NY | 6,847 | $170K | 3.5% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Irvington NY | 6,533 | $173K | 1.6% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| 14 | Kings Point NY | 5,710 | $211K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,728 | Somers WI | 8,171 | $80K | 8.7% | 8.4% | 3% | B− |
| 1,729 | Waldoboro ME | 5,324 | $69K | 9.6% | 0.7% | 14% | B− |
| 1,730 | Granby NY | 6,528 | $79K | 13.8% | 3.1% | 3% | B− |
| 1,731 | Wrightwood CA | 5,067 | $74K | 9.9% | 2.4% | 8% | B− |
| 1,732 | Haleiwa HI | 4,948 | $98K | 9.7% | 4.0% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,218 | 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 Granby, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
The towns next door employ 18% of Granby
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Granby workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granby | – | B− | B− | 31 min | $79,338 |
| Volney | under 3% | C | D | 22 min | $74,848 |
| Fulton | 13% | C− | A− | 22 min | $52,046 |
| Schroeppel | under 3% | C+ | B | 23 min | $73,082 |
| Hannibal | under 3% | C | C− | 27 min | $74,148 |
| Lysander | 5% | A− | C+ | 24 min | $107,984 |
| Ira | under 3% | A− | B− | 30 min | $97,019 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Fulton. Darker towns draw more of Granby’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 Granby: questions
What is the median household income in Granby?
$79,338 (±$12,115) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Granby?
13.8%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Granby?
31 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Granby work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Fulton (13%, 2 mi), Syracuse (11%, 23 mi), Oswego (8%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Granby walkable?
Granby is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Granby 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 Granby, from the people who make the trip.
More of Granby
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.