Photo: User:TheHappyHermit · Public domainHouseholds in Medina earn less than those in 75% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Medina are C+ for jobs and income and A− for walkability. 12.3% of residents are in poverty, where New York as a whole has 14.0%. About one in four work in Medina itself; outside it, Ridgeway draws the most (18%, 3 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Medina: the gist
Medina trades workers with the towns around it
Medina has about as many jobs (2,886) as working residents (2,578), but they are mostly different people: 1,909 residents leave for work each day while 2,217 people come in. Only 23% of the jobs in Medina are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Medina and Ridgeway trade workers both ways
Ridgeway is the top workplace for Medina residents (18%) and also where the most people who work in Medina come from (23% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Medina are quick
The average trip to work takes 26 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 54 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.
Medina’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Medina is better than 40% of U.S. towns, #498 of 758 in New York. Unemployment holds Medina’s grade up (3.3%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($59,231, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Medina could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 1,909 residents head out to work, 669 work right here, and 2,217 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.12 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 people from Medina work
Where Medina clocks in
6% 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.
About 26 minutes each way for Medina’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Medina workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,408 commuters (the 11% 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.
A place that makes things: 32% of Medina’s jobs are in goods
2,886 jobs are based in Medina.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Medina, 2013 → 2023: 2,923 → 2,886. 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 Medina’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Medina
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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Medina
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Medina is more walkable than 83% of U.S. towns, #250 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 7.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,692 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). 12.4% of Medina households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Medina’s commuters take a bus or train.
Medina next to U.S. towns of 4,100 to 7,900: 2,223rd of 3,432 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Lawrence NY | 6,847 | $170K | 3.5% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Irvington NY | 6,533 | $173K | 1.6% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| 16 | Kings Point NY | 5,710 | $211K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,221 | Hoosick NY | 6,678 | $63K | 12.8% | 1.9% | 18% | C+ |
| 2,222 | Sanibel FL | 6,303 | $109K | 11.6% | 5.7% | 20% | C+ |
| 2,223 | Medina NY | 5,855 | $59K | 12.3% | 3.3% | 26% | C+ |
| 2,224 | DuBois PA | 7,254 | $63K | 14.0% | 3.4% | 28% | C+ |
| 2,225 | Belle Fourche SD | 5,791 | $65K | 10.6% | 2.6% | 29% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,432 | Medina TX | 4,226 | $22K | 53.8% | 10.1% | 4% | 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 Medina, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
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 Medina: questions
What is the median household income in Medina?
$59,231 (±$15,006) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Medina?
12.3%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Medina?
26 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 Medina work?
26% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ridgeway (18%, 3 mi), Shelby (15%, 3 mi), Albion (6%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Medina walkable?
Medina is more walkable than 83% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Medina without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Medina, from the people who make the trip.
More of Medina
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.