There are 1.8 jobs in Moravia for every working resident, and 745 people commute in
Jobs and income earn Moravia C−; getting around on foot earns it B. 820 jobs are based in Moravia, and 467 of its residents work somewhere. About one in seven stay in Moravia for work; outside it, Moravia is the main destination (19%, 2 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Moravia stands out on work
Moravia and Moravia trade workers both ways
Moravia is the top workplace for Moravia residents (19%) and also where the most people who work in Moravia come from (19% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Moravia is where the jobs are
Moravia has 820 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
48% of the jobs in Moravia are in trade, transport and utilities, against 24% of the jobs its residents hold. 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 467 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Moravia’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Moravia is better than 25% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Moravia’s grade up (10.6%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 21% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.4%) is left out: Moravia’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Moravia could be anywhere from D to B.
The daily trip into Moravia
Where Moravia clocks in
7% of workers
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.
How a workday changes Moravia
On a workday 392 residents head out to work and 75 work right here.
About 1,600 people are in Moravia on a workday afternoon, 29% more than live here.
1.8 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
What Moravia’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Moravia, 2013 → 2023: 1,197 → 820. 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 Moravia’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 24 minutes to work from Moravia
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Moravia workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 538 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.
How far Moravia’s workers travel
About 23% 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.
Most trips from Moravia start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Moravia is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 9.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 588 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). 17.8% of Moravia households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Moravia’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700, Moravia comes 3,043rd on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,041 | Preston MN | 1,318 | $64K | 8.9% | 3.4% | 16% | C− |
| 3,042 | Ennis MT | 1,126 | $70K | 9.4% | 1.1% | 14% | C− |
| 3,043 | Moravia NY | 1,233 | $63K | 10.6% | 4.4% | 16% | C− |
| 3,044 | Monongah WV | 1,055 | $51K | 12.1% | 6.1% | 1% | C− |
| 3,045 | Ricks Township IL | 1,152 | $79K | 14.7% | 1.6% | 3% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Moravia, 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 Moravia: questions
What is the median household income in Moravia?
$63,073 (±$13,938) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Moravia?
10.6%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Moravia?
24 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Moravia work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Moravia (19%, 2 mi), Auburn (7%, 17 mi), Ithaca (6%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Moravia walkable?
Moravia is more walkable than 64% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Moravia without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 18% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Moravia, from the people who make the trip.
More of Moravia
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.