Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Kendall has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Working from home is the commute for 3% of workers, where New York as a whole has 15%. 395 jobs are based in Kendall; 1,203 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Kendall B+; getting around on foot earns it C+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Kendall, in brief
Few Kendall workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 15% across New York. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Kendall’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Kendall is Rochester, 25 miles away as the crow flies. 12% of working residents (139) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Commutes from Kendall 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 ↓
Kendall empties out on a workday
About 1,800 people are in Kendall on a workday afternoon, 31% fewer than the 2,600 who live here: 1,100 head out to work and 300 come in. Day and night ↓
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.
Where Kendall’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Kendall is better than 69% of U.S. towns, #259 of 758 in New York. Unemployment holds Kendall’s grade up (3.0%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 47% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Kendall could be anywhere from C+ to A.
From Kendall, about 28 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kendall workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,178 commuters (the 3% 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.
The distance from Kendall to work
About 16% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Kendall
On a workday 1,111 residents head out to work, 92 work right here, and 303 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Kendall on a workday afternoon, 31% 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 2023, primary jobs.
12% of working residents work in Rochester
Where Kendall clocks in
12% of workers
9% 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 Kendall’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kendall, 2013 → 2023: 158 → 395. 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 Kendall’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute in Kendall is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Kendall is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns, #570 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 4.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,216 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). 1.8% of Kendall households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Kendall’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Kendall is 1,288th of 5,083 U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,500
| # | 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Old Brookville NY | 2,098 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | East Williston NY | 2,616 | $215K | 2.3% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 10 | Laurel Hollow NY | 1,949 | $250K | 3.5% | 2.2% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,286 | Sadsbury Township PA | 3,489 | $93K | 11.9% | 2.5% | 10% | B+ |
| 1,287 | Meyers CA | 1,995 | $96K | 5.5% | 1.4% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,288 | Kendall NY | 2,577 | $88K | 6.9% | 3.0% | 8% | B+ |
| 1,289 | Jefferson Township OH | 3,071 | $92K | 2.2% | 5.2% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,290 | Lavaca AR | 2,528 | $81K | 5.9% | 3.0% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,083 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Kendall, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Kendall and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Carlton. Darker towns draw more of Kendall’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 Kendall: questions
What is the median household income in Kendall?
$87,734 (±$13,610) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kendall?
6.9%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kendall?
28 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kendall work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rochester (12%, 24 mi), Albion (9%, 11 mi), Greece (5%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Kendall walkable?
Kendall is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kendall without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kendall, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kendall
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.