Photo: Sixhoursago at English Wikipedia · Public domainHouseholds in Morrisville earn less than those in 88% of U.S. towns
Only 8% stay in Morrisville for work; outside it, Eaton is the main destination (13%, 1 miles). Poverty touches 19.6% of residents, where New York as a whole has 14.0%. The two grades for Morrisville are D for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Morrisville
Commutes from Morrisville are quick
The average trip to work takes 14 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 146 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Many jobs in Morrisville pay little
31% of the jobs based in Morrisville pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 37% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Morrisville
59% of Morrisville residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 41% of the jobs based in Morrisville pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 92% leave town for their job. 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 525 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Morrisville
On income, poverty and job access, Morrisville is better than 5% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Morrisville’s grade.
Unemployment (7.2%) is left out: Morrisville’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, Morrisville could be anywhere from D− to C.
Commuting from Morrisville: about 14 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Morrisville workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 512 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
498 jobs are based in Morrisville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Morrisville, 2013 → 2023: 520 → 498. 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 Morrisville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Morrisville: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 484 residents head out to work, 41 work right here, and 457 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 (0.95 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.
The towns that employ Morrisville’s residents
Where Morrisville clocks in
13% of workers
7% 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 far it is to work from Morrisville
About 27% 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.
Morrisville is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Morrisville is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 51.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 6.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 565 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). 4.3% of Morrisville households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 5% of Morrisville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Where Morrisville sits among U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,847 | Calhoun City MS | 1,459 | $40K | 15.7% | 6.2% | 9% | D |
| 4,848 | Okolona MS | 2,394 | $26K | 43.2% | 13.8% | 14% | D |
| 4,849 | Morrisville NY | 1,795 | $50K | 19.6% | 7.2% | 8% | D |
| 4,850 | Decatur TN | 1,637 | $43K | 34.3% | 23.1% | 18% | D |
| 4,851 | Mabton WA | 1,967 | $57K | 27.8% | 10.7% | 3% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,343 | 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 Morrisville, 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 Morrisville: questions
What is the median household income in Morrisville?
$50,000 (±$26,779) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Morrisville?
19.6%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Morrisville?
14 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 Morrisville work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Eaton (13%, 1 mi), Hamilton (10%, 11 mi), Syracuse (7%, 27 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Morrisville walkable?
Morrisville is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 6.4 out of 20, and 51% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Morrisville without a car?
5% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Morrisville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Morrisville
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.