Photo: J. Passepartout · CC BY-SA 4.0Hornby has 0.0 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
23 jobs are based in Hornby for 719 working residents. Hornby grades B for jobs and income and D for walkability. Only 1% work in Hornby itself; outside it, Corning draws the most (18%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Hornby, in brief
Hornby is a place people come home to
There are 23 jobs based in Hornby, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Hornby has about 1,000 people in it, 40% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Hornby are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 92 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 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 719 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Hornby
On income, poverty and job access, Hornby is better than 59% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Hornby’s grade up (6.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 29% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (5.9%) is left out: Hornby’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Hornby could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Who leaves Hornby for work, and who comes in
On a workday 711 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 15 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Hornby on a workday afternoon, 40% 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.
How long Hornby spends getting to work: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hornby workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 772 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.
Out of Hornby to work: where people go
Where Hornby clocks in
18% of workers
14% of workers
9% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Hornby
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hornby, 2014 → 2024: 23 → 23. 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 Hornby’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Hornby’s workers travel
About 20% 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.
Getting around Hornby: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hornby is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 2.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 862 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). 1.3% of Hornby households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hornby’s commuters take a bus or train.
Hornby is 1,670th of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,668 | Cornwall CT | 1,589 | $129K | 8.2% | 6.5% | 16% | B |
| 1,669 | Saluda Township IN | 1,383 | $78K | 3.0% | 7.0% | 2% | B |
| 1,670 | Hornby NY | 1,739 | $88K | 6.2% | 5.9% | 1% | B |
| 1,671 | Flatrock Township OH | 1,218 | $106K | 8.6% | 10.7% | 1% | B |
| 1,672 | Pine Valley WI | 1,208 | $87K | 3.9% | 1.8% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Hornby, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Bordering towns draw 21% of Hornby’s workers
The biggest share goes to Erwin (14%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Hornby’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 Hornby: questions
What is the median household income in Hornby?
$88,281 (±$16,735) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hornby?
6.2%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hornby?
21 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 Hornby work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Corning (18%, 6 mi), Erwin (14%, 9 mi), Horseheads (9%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Hornby walkable?
Hornby is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 2.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hornby without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hornby, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hornby
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.