Huron has 0.9 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs & income C−: better than 21% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability C+: more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns.
Household incomes here are higher than in 68% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 28 minutes each way (New York 33, U.S. 26). About one in five work in Huron; the top destination outside it is Rochester (6%, 37 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Huron
Huron makes and builds things
83% of the jobs based in Huron are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Huron residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 39%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Huron are quick
The average trip to work takes 28 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 38 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 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 841 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Huron’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Huron is better than 21% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Huron’s grade up ($90,000, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (24.1%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (4.8%) is left out: Huron’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, Huron could be anywhere from D to C+.
Huron makes things: 83% of its jobs are in goods
726 jobs are based in Huron. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Huron’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Huron, 2013 → 2023: 553 → 726. 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.
About 28 minutes each way, quicker than most of New York
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Huron workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 769 commuters (the 8% 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.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 677 residents head out to work, 164 work right here, and 562 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 (0.86 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.
6% of working residents work in Rochester
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Huron clocks in
6% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Half of Huron commutes less than 18 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Most trips from Huron start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Huron is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 4.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 836 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 0.0 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). 2.1% of Huron households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Huron’s commuters take a bus or train.
Huron is 4,014th of 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Huron, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
| # | 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 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,012 | Greenup IL | 1,330 | $51K | 9.2% | 3.3% | 23% | C− |
| 4,013 | Davenport WA | 1,818 | $77K | 13.9% | 7.1% | 21% | C− |
| 4,014 | Huron NY | 1,823 | $90K | 24.1% | 4.8% | 20% | C− |
| 4,015 | Van Vleck TX | 1,763 | $59K | 10.6% | 0.0% | 3% | C− |
| 4,016 | Blades DE | 1,372 | $57K | 13.0% | 11.9% | 1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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.
17% of Huron works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Sodus (5%). Darker towns draw more of Huron’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
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 Huron: questions
What is the median household income in Huron?
$90,000 (±$9,513) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Huron?
24.1%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Huron?
28 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Huron work?
20% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rochester (6%, 37 mi), Sodus (5%, 8 mi), Wolcott (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Huron walkable?
Huron is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.4 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Huron 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 Huron, from the people who make the trip.
More of Huron
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.