Most of Lindley commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
101 jobs are based in Lindley; 721 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Lindley are B− for jobs and income and D for walkability. Only 2% work in Lindley; the top destination outside it is Corning (23%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Lindley and work: the main findings
What’s behind Lindley’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Lindley is better than 53% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Lindley’s grade up (6.8%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 22% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (5.8%) is left out: Lindley’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, Lindley could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
Who leaves Lindley for work, and who comes in
On a workday 709 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 89 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Lindley on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
Where Lindley’s working residents head each day
Where Lindley clocks in
23% of workers
14% of workers
9% 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 Lindley’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lindley, 2013 → 2023: 84 → 101. 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 Lindley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Lindley spends getting to work: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lindley workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 649 commuters (the 10% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Lindley
About 20% 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 Lindley is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lindley is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 2.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 725 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). 5.1% of Lindley households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lindley’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 6,085 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400, Lindley comes 2,159th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,157 | Hope ME | 1,737 | $87K | 5.3% | 1.9% | 6% | B− |
| 2,158 | Pine River Township MI | 2,357 | $71K | 9.5% | 2.8% | 4% | B− |
| 2,159 | Lindley NY | 1,756 | $87K | 6.8% | 5.8% | 2% | B− |
| 2,160 | McKean Township OH | 1,661 | $100K | 19.9% | 9.0% | 2% | B− |
| 2,161 | Croyle Township PA | 2,275 | $60K | 6.8% | 2.7% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | 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 Lindley, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Bordering towns draw 16% of Lindley’s workers
The biggest share goes to Erwin (14%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Lindley’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 Lindley: questions
What is the median household income in Lindley?
$86,518 (±$9,353) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lindley?
6.8%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lindley?
29 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lindley work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Corning (23%, 9 mi), Erwin (14%, 7 mi), Corning (9%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lindley walkable?
Lindley is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 2.9 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lindley without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lindley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lindley
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.