Photo: formulanone from Huntsville, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Work and commuting in Junius
Only 2% work in Junius itself; outside it, Seneca Falls draws the most (12%, 7 miles). Jobs and income earn Junius C+; getting around on foot earns it C+. Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers (New York 15%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Junius, in a few figures
Stores, warehouses and trucking
92% of the jobs in Junius are in trade, transport and utilities, against 20% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Junius are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 107 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Most jobs in Junius pay over $40,000 a year
72% of the jobs based in Junius pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. The jobs ↓
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 488 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Junius’ Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Junius is better than 36% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Junius’ grade up ($76,750, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 33% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.3%) is left out: Junius’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, Junius could be anywhere from C− to B−.
72% of the jobs in Junius pay over $3,333 a month
404 jobs are based in Junius.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Junius, 2013 → 2023: 256 → 404. 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 Junius’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Junius: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Junius workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 521 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.
Who commutes out of Junius, and who commutes in
On a workday 479 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 395 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 (0.83 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.
Where the trip to work from Junius ends
Where Junius clocks in
12% of workers
10% of workers
7% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Junius
About 19% 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.
In Junius, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Junius is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 4.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 546 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.9% of Junius households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Junius’ commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Junius is 2,717th among 5,400 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Saddle Rock NY | 1,008 | $176K | 0.8% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,715 | Valley Brook Township KS | 1,503 | $77K | 12.6% | 0.0% | 11% | C+ |
| 2,716 | Grass Lake Township MN | 1,017 | $82K | 10.0% | 2.7% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,717 | Junius NY | 1,364 | $77K | 13.0% | 2.3% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,718 | Chapman Township PA | 1,575 | $81K | 11.9% | 1.4% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,719 | Little Black WI | 1,145 | $69K | 8.1% | 0.4% | 4% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Junius, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Next door is work for 19% of Junius
The biggest share goes to Waterloo (10%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Junius’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 Junius: questions
What is the median household income in Junius?
$76,750 (±$13,077) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Junius?
13.0%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Junius?
19 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 Junius work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Seneca Falls (12%, 7 mi), Waterloo (10%, 4 mi), Geneva (7%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Junius walkable?
Junius is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Junius without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Junius, from the people who make the trip.
More of Junius
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.