Great Valley has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Great Valley has 308 jobs, against 813 working residents. Jobs and income earn Great Valley C; getting around on foot earns it C−. 4% of workers work from home; New York has 15%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Great Valley stands out on work
Commutes from Great Valley are quick
The average trip to work takes 17 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 123 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Great Valley workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 15% across New York. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 813 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Great Valley’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Great Valley is better than 33% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Great Valley’s grade up (7.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 11% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.7%) is left out: Great Valley’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Great Valley could be anywhere from C− to B−.
The daily trip from Great Valley: about 17 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Great Valley workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 647 commuters (the 4% 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.
How many people are in Great Valley by day
On a workday 790 residents head out to work, 23 work right here, and 285 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Great Valley on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
12% of working residents work in Olean
Where Great Valley clocks in
12% 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 Great Valley’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Great Valley, 2014 → 2024: 153 → 308. 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 Great Valley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Great Valley
About 22% 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.
Few in Great Valley walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Great Valley is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 4.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 675 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). 1.6% of Great Valley households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Great Valley’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Great Valley ranks: 3,022nd of 5,234 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,600
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | 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% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,020 | Shenandoah VA | 2,480 | $71K | 14.2% | 3.9% | 7% | C |
| 3,021 | Cameron WI | 1,834 | $62K | 8.9% | 2.5% | 5% | C |
| 3,022 | Great Valley NY | 1,933 | $68K | 7.4% | 4.7% | 3% | C |
| 3,023 | Monroe Township PA | 2,029 | $67K | 7.3% | 3.2% | 5% | C |
| 3,024 | Middletown IN | 2,248 | $56K | 12.7% | 5.2% | 5% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,234 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Great Valley, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
23% of Great Valley works in a town next door
The biggest share goes to Salamanca (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Great Valley workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Valley | – | C | C− | 17 min | $68,272 |
| Salamanca | 9% | D− | A | 18 min | $41,667 |
| Humphrey | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Little Valley | 6% | D | B− | 22 min | $56,184 |
| Carrollton | under 2% | C− | C− | 26 min | $61,213 |
| Ellicottville | 8% | C+ | B+ | 23 min | $71,200 |
| Salamanca | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Humphrey: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Salamanca: the same community as the city of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Great Valley’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 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 Great Valley: questions
What is the median household income in Great Valley?
$68,272 (±$6,714) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Great Valley?
7.4%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Great Valley?
17 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Great Valley work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Olean (12%, 13 mi), Salamanca (9%, 5 mi), Ellicottville (8%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Great Valley walkable?
Great Valley is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Great Valley 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 Great Valley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Great Valley
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. 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.