Jethro Wood House · Photo: Lvklock · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Ledyard are higher than in 64% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Ledyard are C for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. 14.9% of residents are in poverty, against 14.0% across New York. 6% of workers work from home, next to 15% for New York as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Ledyard at work: what stands out
Commutes from Ledyard 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 ↓
Ledyard makes and builds things
41% of the jobs based in Ledyard are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Ledyard residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 26%. The jobs ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
32% of the jobs based in Ledyard are held by workers 29 or younger, against 21% of Ledyard’s own working residents. 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 718 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Ledyard’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Ledyard is better than 28% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Ledyard’s grade up ($86,731, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 13% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.6%) is left out: Ledyard’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, Ledyard could be anywhere from C− to B−.
How long Ledyard spends getting to work: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ledyard workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 801 commuters (the 6% 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.
Goods jobs make up 41% of work in Ledyard
998 jobs are based in Ledyard.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ledyard, 2013 → 2023: 786 → 998. 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 Ledyard’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Ledyard fills up on a workday
On a workday 573 residents head out to work, 145 work right here, and 853 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Ledyard on a workday afternoon, 21% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.39 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 Ledyard goes to work
Where Ledyard clocks in
6% of workers
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.
Half of Ledyard commutes less than 20 miles
About 21% 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 commute in Ledyard is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ledyard is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 14.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 856 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). 1.5% of Ledyard households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Ledyard’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Ledyard is 3,183rd of 5,400 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,181 | Camp Point Township IL | 1,612 | $66K | 9.9% | 1.5% | 12% | C |
| 3,182 | Stetson ME | 1,243 | $76K | 10.4% | 3.8% | 3% | C |
| 3,183 | Ledyard NY | 1,350 | $87K | 14.9% | 5.6% | 20% | C |
| 3,184 | Harrison Township OH | 1,192 | $52K | 6.8% | 4.7% | 0% | C |
| 3,185 | Spencer Township OH | 1,033 | $73K | 12.5% | 3.2% | <1% | 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 Ledyard, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Next door is work for 10% of Ledyard
The biggest share goes to Venice (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ledyard workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ledyard | – | C | B+ | 20 min | $86,731 |
| Springport | 3% | B+ | B | 23 min | $86,042 |
| Romulus | under 3% | C− | D | 23 min | $69,447 |
| Varick | under 3% | C | B− | 23 min | $80,250 |
| Venice | 4% | C+ | B | 21 min | $92,000 |
| Genoa | 3% | B | C | 23 min | $92,833 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Ledyard’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 Ledyard: questions
What is the median household income in Ledyard?
$86,731 (±$12,442) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ledyard?
14.9%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ledyard?
20 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ledyard work?
20% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ithaca (6%, 24 mi), Auburn (5%, 14 mi), Syracuse (5%, 34 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ledyard walkable?
Ledyard is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 14% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ledyard without a car?
2% 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 Ledyard, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ledyard
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.