Minetto has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Measured by household income, Minetto is ahead of 77% of U.S. towns. There are 78 jobs in Minetto; 736 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Minetto B+; getting around on foot earns it C−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Minetto, in brief
A lot of Minetto works one town over
40% of working residents work in a town that borders Minetto: Oswego (26%), Oswego (9%) and Scriba (5%). Next door ↓
Minetto is a place people come home to
There are 78 jobs based in Minetto, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Minetto has about 960 people in it, 41% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Minetto are quick
The average trip to work takes 24 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 69 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 736 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Minetto gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Minetto is better than 66% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Minetto’s grade up ($100,682, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 36% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (8.6%) is left out: Minetto’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, Minetto could be anywhere from B− to A−.
Minetto quiets down on a workday
On a workday 716 residents head out to work, 20 work right here, and 58 people come in from elsewhere.
About 960 people are in Minetto on a workday afternoon, 41% 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 daily trip from Minetto: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Minetto workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 638 commuters (the 9% 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.
26% of working residents work in Oswego
Where Minetto clocks in
26% of workers
9% of workers
8% 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.
In Minetto, 32% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Minetto, 2013 → 2023: 108 → 78. 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 Minetto’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Minetto, by distance
About 17% 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.
Driving is how Minetto gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Minetto is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 701 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 0.7 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 53% 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). 0.9% of Minetto households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Minetto’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Minetto ranks: 1,388th of 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 5 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,386 | Churubusco IN | 1,853 | $65K | 9.2% | 1.8% | 12% | B+ |
| 1,387 | Waterford NY | 1,999 | $73K | 10.6% | 2.8% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,388 | Minetto NY | 1,613 | $101K | 6.9% | 8.6% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,389 | Schleswig WI | 1,957 | $92K | 6.8% | 5.0% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,390 | Efland NC | 1,611 | $66K | 5.1% | 0.0% | <1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | 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 Minetto, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Next door is work for 40% of Minetto
The biggest share goes to Oswego (26%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Minetto’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 Minetto: questions
What is the median household income in Minetto?
$100,682 (±$12,768) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Minetto?
6.9%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Minetto?
24 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Minetto work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oswego (26%, 4 mi), Oswego (9%, 4 mi), Syracuse (8%, 30 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Minetto walkable?
Minetto is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Minetto without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Minetto, from the people who make the trip.
More of Minetto
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.