Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs, pay and the trip to work in Naples
Employers in Naples report 599 jobs; 349 of its residents have a job. About one in seven stay in Naples for work; outside it, Naples is the main destination (25%, 2 miles). The trip to work takes 19 minutes on average, where New York has 33 and the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Naples, in a few figures
Naples and Naples trade workers both ways
Naples is the top workplace for Naples residents (25%) and also where the most people who work in Naples come from (29% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Naples is where the jobs are
Naples has 599 jobs, 1.7 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Naples are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 107 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 349 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Naples’s workers come from
Where Naples clocks in
25% of workers
8% of workers
4% 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 and out of Naples on a workday
On a workday 291 residents head out to work, 58 work right here, and 541 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Naples on a workday afternoon, 26% more than live here.
1.7 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.
A commute of about 19 minutes in Naples
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Naples workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 419 commuters (the 20% 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.
Jobs in Naples: what the 599 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Naples, 2013 → 2023: 502 → 599. 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 Naples’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Naples
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.
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 Naples: questions
What is the median household income in Naples?
$53,611 (±$18,345) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Naples?
11.8%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Naples?
19 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Naples work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Naples (25%, 2 mi), Rochester (8%, 40 mi), Canandaigua (4%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Naples without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Naples, from the people who make the trip.
More of Naples
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.