Lenox District No. 4 Schoolhouse · Photo: Beangus · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Lincoln works elsewhere
There are 59 jobs in Lincoln, and 794 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Lincoln B+; getting around on foot earns it C−. Only 1% work in Lincoln itself; outside it, Syracuse draws the most (10%, 21 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Lincoln, in a few figures
Lincoln is a place people come home to
There are 59 jobs based in Lincoln, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Lincoln has about 1,100 people in it, 40% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Lincoln are quick
The average trip to work takes 27 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 46 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 794 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Lincoln’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Lincoln is better than 69% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Lincoln’s grade up ($96,100, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 46% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (1.6%) is left out: Lincoln’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, Lincoln could be anywhere from B− to A−.
A workday in Lincoln: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 786 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 51 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Lincoln on a workday afternoon, 40% 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.
The trip to work from Lincoln: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lincoln workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 759 commuters (the 7% 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 places Lincoln commutes to
Where Lincoln clocks in
10% 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.
Goods jobs make up 59% of work in Lincoln
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lincoln, 2013 → 2023: 39 → 59. 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 Lincoln’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Lincoln to work
About 15% 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 Lincoln is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lincoln is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 3.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 820 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). 2.9% of Lincoln households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lincoln’s commuters take a bus or train.
Lincoln places 1,203rd of 5,656 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500
| # | 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 | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,201 | Jerome IL | 1,627 | $65K | 6.4% | 2.8% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,202 | Seville OH | 2,347 | $77K | 8.6% | 2.9% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,203 | Lincoln NY | 1,817 | $96K | 6.9% | 1.6% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,204 | Monroe Township OH | 2,058 | $73K | 8.3% | 0.8% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,205 | Henryville IN | 1,691 | $72K | 6.9% | 1.7% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Lincoln, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
The towns next door employ 17% of Lincoln
The biggest share goes to Lenox (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lincoln workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln | – | B+ | C− | 27 min | $96,100 |
| Lenox | 9% | C+ | C+ | 25 min | $75,900 |
| Oneida | 5% | C+ | A− | 19 min | $61,597 |
| Stockbridge | under 3% | B− | C+ | 26 min | $76,154 |
| Fenner | 3% | C+ | C+ | 26 min | $77,750 |
| Smithfield | under 3% | B+ | D− | 22 min | $81,250 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Lincoln’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 Lincoln: questions
What is the median household income in Lincoln?
$96,100 (±$12,171) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lincoln?
6.9%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lincoln?
27 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lincoln work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Syracuse (10%, 21 mi), Lenox (9%, 6 mi), DeWitt (7%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lincoln walkable?
Lincoln is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 3.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lincoln without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lincoln, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lincoln
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.