Photo: Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 4.0Hancock has higher unemployment (7.7%) than 87% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 7% of workers, next to 15% for New York as a whole. Jobs and income earn Hancock D; getting around on foot earns it B−. About one in four work in Hancock itself; outside it, New York City draws the most (7%, 110 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Hancock in brief
How Hancock earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Hancock is better than 10% of U.S. towns, #728 of 758 in New York. The poverty rate holds Hancock’s grade up (13.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hancock could be anywhere from D− to C+.
How far Hancock goes to work
About 34% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Hancock
On a workday 628 residents head out to work, 241 work right here, and 543 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.90 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Out of Hancock to work: where people go
Where Hancock clocks in
7% 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.
The kinds of work in Hancock
784 jobs are based in Hancock.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hancock, 2013 → 2023: 775 → 784. 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 Hancock’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Hancock spends getting to work: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hancock workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,045 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.
Few in Hancock walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hancock is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns, #488 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,124 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 22% 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). 7.0% of Hancock households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Hancock’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,700, Hancock ranks 4,375th of 4,969 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Old Brookville NY | 2,098 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | East Williston NY | 2,616 | $215K | 2.3% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 10 | Laurel Hollow NY | 1,949 | $250K | 3.5% | 2.2% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,373 | Albion ME | 2,092 | $62K | 18.4% | 2.8% | 8% | D |
| 4,374 | Sidney Township MI | 2,651 | $60K | 14.7% | 8.0% | 2% | D |
| 4,375 | Hancock NY | 2,717 | $62K | 13.0% | 7.7% | 28% | D |
| 4,376 | Hawthorne NV | 2,809 | $67K | 14.5% | 9.0% | 34% | D |
| 4,377 | Orchard City CO | 3,299 | $56K | 21.5% | 4.7% | 7% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,969 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Hancock, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Work in the towns next to Hancock
The biggest share goes to Colchester (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hancock workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hancock | – | D | B− | 30 min | $62,243 |
| Colchester | 4% | C− | C+ | 33 min | $67,222 |
| Fremont | under 2% | C | D− | 29 min | $67,115 |
| Tompkins | under 2% | C− | C | 70 min | $61,103 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Hancock’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 Hancock: questions
What is the median household income in Hancock?
$62,243 (±$11,429) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hancock?
13.0%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hancock?
30 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 Hancock work?
28% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (7%, 110 mi), Colchester (4%, 13 mi), Delhi (4%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hancock walkable?
Hancock is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hancock without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hancock, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hancock
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.