Photo: Adam Moss · CC BY-SA 2.0Kiantone has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs and income earn Kiantone C+; getting around on foot earns it B. Kiantone has 226 jobs for 545 working residents. For 5% of workers, the job is at home, against 15% across New York.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Kiantone
A lot of Kiantone works one town over
38% of working residents work in a town that borders Kiantone: Jamestown (21%), Carroll (9%) and Busti (8%). Next door ↓
Commutes from Kiantone are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 100 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 545 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Kiantone
On income, poverty and job access, Kiantone is better than 39% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Kiantone’s grade up ($81,000, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (14.2%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (11.0%) is left out: Kiantone’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, Kiantone could be anywhere from C− to A−.
About 20 minutes to work from Kiantone
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kiantone workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 656 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.
The daily commute in and out of Kiantone
On a workday 529 residents head out to work, 16 work right here, and 210 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Kiantone on a workday afternoon, 24% 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.
21% of working residents work in Jamestown
Where Kiantone clocks in
21% of workers
15% 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.
Jobs in Kiantone: what the 226 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kiantone, 2013 → 2023: 204 → 226. 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 Kiantone’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Kiantone, by distance
About 24% 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 Kiantone, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Kiantone is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 7.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 688 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). 0.9% of Kiantone households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Kiantone’s commuters take a bus or train.
Kiantone places 2,510th of 5,400 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 900 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,508 | Stevenson Township IL | 1,138 | $93K | 10.7% | 0.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,509 | Richland Township IN | 1,074 | $71K | 8.2% | 0.0% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,510 | Kiantone NY | 1,351 | $81K | 14.2% | 11.0% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,511 | West Franklin Township PA | 1,655 | $68K | 8.7% | 2.4% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,512 | Quincy CA | 1,317 | $89K | 9.2% | 14.1% | 25% | 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 Kiantone, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Bordering towns draw 38% of Kiantone’s workers
The biggest share goes to Jamestown (21%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Kiantone workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kiantone | – | C+ | B | 20 min | $81,000 |
| Carroll | 9% | C+ | B− | 20 min | $77,321 |
| Frewsburg | under 2% | — | — | 20 min | — |
| Busti | 8% | C | C | 21 min | $67,292 |
| Jamestown | 21% | D | A | 15 min | $43,523 |
Same-state neighbors only. Frewsburg: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Kiantone’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 Kiantone: questions
What is the median household income in Kiantone?
$81,000 (±$16,797) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kiantone?
14.2%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kiantone?
20 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 Kiantone work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Jamestown (21%, 5 mi), Ellicott (15%, 8 mi), Carroll (9%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Kiantone walkable?
Kiantone is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kiantone without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kiantone, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kiantone
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.