Carley's Mills Schoolhouse · Photo: JaPaGaIII · CC BY-SA 4.0Hastings has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
The two grades for Hastings are C+ for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Employers in Hastings report 2,090 jobs; 4,215 of its residents have a job. About one in ten work in Hastings; the top destination outside it is Syracuse (18%, 19 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Hastings
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Hastings is better than 42% of U.S. towns, #477 of 758 in New York. Household income holds Hastings’ grade up ($84,027, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (7.3%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hastings could be anywhere from C to B+.
Hastings by day and by night
On a workday 3,827 residents head out to work, 388 work right here, and 1,702 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,300 people are in Hastings on a workday afternoon, 23% 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 people from Hastings work
Where Hastings clocks in
18% 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.
The kinds of work in Hastings
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hastings, 2014 → 2024: 2,094 → 2,090. 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 Hastings’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 31 minutes each way, quicker than most of New York
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hastings workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,512 commuters (the 9% 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 far Hastings’ workers travel
About 17% 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.
Most trips from Hastings start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hastings is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns, #612 of 758 in New York. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 32.9% across New York.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,955 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 25% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 14% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 3.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 77% 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). 5.2% of Hastings households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Hastings’ commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 6,600 to 12,700, Hastings ranks 1,851st of 2,806 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| 4 | Lawrence NY | 6,847 | $170K | 3.5% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 103 | East Rockaway NY | 10,096 | $125K | 2.6% | 3.2% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 106 | North Castle NY | 12,360 | $208K | 3.8% | 3.1% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,849 | Winchester CT | 10,360 | $67K | 12.8% | 4.1% | 11% | C+ |
| 1,850 | Clintonia Township IL | 7,123 | $65K | 13.6% | 3.5% | 30% | C+ |
| 1,851 | Hastings NY | 9,438 | $84K | 10.5% | 7.3% | 9% | C+ |
| 1,852 | Island Creek Township OH | 9,958 | $68K | 7.0% | 5.0% | 12% | C+ |
| 1,853 | Bellmead TX | 10,592 | $52K | 24.9% | 2.1% | 5% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,806 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Hastings, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Work next door: 15% of Hastings’ workers
The biggest share goes to Cicero (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hastings workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hastings | – | C+ | C+ | 31 min | $84,027 |
| Clay | 7% | B+ | B | 21 min | $90,707 |
| Cicero | 8% | B+ | B− | 20 min | $96,463 |
| West Monroe | under 2% | B | D | 26 min | $90,558 |
| Schroeppel | under 2% | C+ | B | 23 min | $73,082 |
| Palermo | under 2% | C+ | D | 27 min | $71,548 |
| Parish | under 2% | C− | C− | 32 min | $68,164 |
| Mexico | under 2% | C | C | 25 min | $59,081 |
| Brewerton | under 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Brewerton: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Hastings’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 Hastings: questions
What is the median household income in Hastings?
$84,027 (±$7,797) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hastings?
10.5%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hastings?
31 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hastings work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Syracuse (18%, 19 mi), DeWitt (10%, 19 mi), Cicero (8%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Hastings walkable?
Hastings is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hastings without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 14% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hastings, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hastings
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.