Photo: Mitchazenia · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs and the daily commute in Newstead
A typical one-way commute lasts 24 minutes; New York averages 33, the U.S. 26. For jobs and income Newstead is better than 62% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns (B−). Household incomes here are lower than in 56% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Newstead, in a few figures
Newstead makes and builds things
57% of the jobs based in Newstead are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Newstead residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 22%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Newstead 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.
The figures behind Newstead’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Newstead’s grade up (6.6%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($71,200, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Newstead could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Making and building: 57% of jobs based in Newstead
3,048 jobs are based in Newstead.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Newstead, 2013 → 2023: 2,618 → 3,048. 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 Newstead’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Newstead: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Newstead workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,435 commuters (the 14% 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.
Newstead quiets down on a workday
On a workday 3,253 residents head out to work, 696 work right here, and 2,352 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,800 people are in Newstead on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.77 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.
14% of working residents work in Amherst
Where Newstead clocks in
14% of workers
11% of workers
10% 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 many miles Newstead commutes
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.
In Newstead, most people drive to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,999 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). 3.1% of Newstead households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Newstead’s commuters take a bus or train.
Newstead is 1,387th of 2,893 U.S. towns of 6,100 to 11,700 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 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 3 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Lawrence NY | 6,847 | $170K | 3.5% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Irvington NY | 6,533 | $173K | 1.6% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 110 | East Rockaway NY | 10,096 | $125K | 2.6% | 3.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,385 | Northbrook OH | 10,742 | $67K | 10.7% | 3.4% | 1% | B |
| 1,386 | Black Mountain NC | 8,491 | $77K | 5.9% | 3.9% | 17% | B |
| 1,387 | Newstead NY | 8,695 | $71K | 6.6% | 4.3% | 18% | B |
| 1,388 | Union OH | 7,177 | $73K | 12.6% | 2.8% | 3% | B |
| 1,389 | Diamondhead MS | 9,441 | $87K | 7.0% | 4.2% | 8% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,893 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Newstead, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Newstead and its neighbors: 14% work next door
The biggest share goes to Clarence (10%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Newstead workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newstead | – | B | B− | 24 min | $71,200 |
| Royalton | under 2% | B | C+ | 33 min | $92,373 |
| Clarence | 10% | A− | B | 23 min | $124,800 |
| Alden | 4% | B+ | C+ | 27 min | $91,441 |
| Pembroke | under 2% | B+ | C | 26 min | $91,534 |
| Alabama | under 2% | B | C− | 30 min | $81,833 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Newstead’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 Newstead: questions
What is the median household income in Newstead?
$71,200 (±$13,244) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Newstead?
6.6%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Newstead?
24 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Newstead work?
18% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Amherst (14%, 12 mi), Buffalo (11%, 19 mi), Clarence (10%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Newstead walkable?
Newstead is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Newstead without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Newstead, from the people who make the trip.
More of Newstead
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.