Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0Hornell’s household incomes are lower than in 91% of U.S. towns
For 5% of workers, the job is at home; New York has 15%. Poverty touches 23.3% of residents; New York has 14.0%. Jobs and income earn Hornell D−; getting around on foot earns it A.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Hornell and work: the main findings
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Hornell
Job access by car holds Hornell’s grade up (ahead of 28% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (11.4%, U.S. 5.2%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hornell could be anywhere from D− to D.
Each way, about 17 minutes from Hornell
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hornell workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,127 commuters (the 5% 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 a workday changes Hornell
On a workday 1,977 residents head out to work, 926 work right here, and 2,589 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 (1.21 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
8% of working residents work in Hornellsville
Where Hornell clocks in
5% of workers
5% 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 the 3,515 jobs in Hornell are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hornell, 2014 → 2024: 3,579 → 3,515. 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 Hornell’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Hornell to work
About 26% 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.
Hornell is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hornell is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns, #146 of 758 in New York. Both inputs place Hornell near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,305 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). 15.1% of Hornell households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Hornell’s commuters take a bus or train.
Hornell next to U.S. towns of 5,600 to 10,800
| # | 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 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Lawrence NY | 6,847 | $170K | 3.5% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Irvington NY | 6,533 | $173K | 1.6% | 2.1% | 5% | A+ |
| 16 | Kings Point NY | 5,710 | $211K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,956 | Crescent City CA | 6,002 | $36K | 17.2% | 8.4% | 34% | D− |
| 2,957 | Grants NM | 8,933 | $47K | 34.1% | 6.0% | 37% | D− |
| 2,958 | Hornell NY | 8,024 | $47K | 23.3% | 11.4% | 32% | D− |
| 2,959 | Smoky Hill Township KS | 9,191 | $51K | 22.3% | 14.7% | 3% | D− |
| 2,960 | Jesup GA | 10,301 | $47K | 20.9% | 11.1% | 31% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,015 | 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 Hornell, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Hornell and its neighbors
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hornell workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hornell | – | D− | A | 17 min | $47,385 |
| North Hornell | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. North Hornell: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Hornell’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 Hornell: questions
What is the median household income in Hornell?
$47,385 (±$7,383) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hornell?
23.3%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hornell?
17 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hornell work?
32% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hornellsville (8%, 1 mi), Alfred (5%, 10 mi), Bath (5%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Hornell walkable?
Hornell is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 9.3 out of 20, and 12% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hornell without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 15% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hornell, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hornell
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.