New Hope Mills Complex · Photo: Paul Malo; cropped by Beyond My Ken 02:08, 29 July 2012 (UTC) · CC BY 2.0Niles has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Niles grades C for jobs and income and C− for walkability. There are 89 jobs in Niles, against 423 working residents. 5% of workers have no commute at all (New York 15%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Niles apart
Niles is a place people come home to
There are 89 jobs based in Niles, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Niles has about 800 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Niles are quick
The average trip to work takes 26 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 54 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 423 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Niles’ Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Niles is better than 33% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Niles’ grade up ($80,588, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 11% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.3%) is left out: Niles’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, Niles could be anywhere from D to B+.
The workday shuffle in and out of Niles
On a workday 416 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 82 people come in from elsewhere.
About 800 people are in Niles on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
About 26 minutes each way for Niles’ commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Niles workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 571 commuters (the 5% 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.
13% of working residents work in Moravia
Where Niles clocks in
9% of workers
5% 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.
Goods, not services: 65% of the jobs in Niles
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Niles, 2013 → 2023: 142 → 89. 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 Niles’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Niles goes to work
About 22% 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.
In Niles, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Niles is more walkable than 17% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Niles near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 600 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). 7.6% of Niles households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Niles’ commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, Niles comes 1,967th 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,965 | Bloominggrove Township OH | 1,297 | $61K | 8.7% | 0.0% | 2% | C |
| 1,966 | North Webster IN | 1,001 | $55K | 10.4% | 1.1% | 5% | C |
| 1,967 | Niles NY | 1,135 | $81K | 10.5% | 3.3% | 2% | C |
| 1,968 | Graham Township PA | 1,308 | $78K | 11.8% | 2.6% | 3% | C |
| 1,969 | Morristown IN | 1,183 | $53K | 14.1% | 0.6% | 8% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Niles, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
The towns next door employ 15% of Niles
The biggest share goes to Moravia (13%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Niles workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Niles | – | C | C− | 26 min | $80,588 |
| Sempronius | under 2% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Scipio | under 2% | C | C− | 23 min | $76,618 |
| Moravia | 13% | C | B | 25 min | $61,116 |
| Spafford | under 2% | B+ | C | 32 min | $111,138 |
| Owasco | under 2% | A | D | 23 min | $102,245 |
| Skaneateles | 2% | B+ | A | 22 min | $103,545 |
Same-state neighbors only. Sempronius: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Niles’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 Niles: questions
What is the median household income in Niles?
$80,588 (±$20,433) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Niles?
10.5%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Niles?
26 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Niles work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Moravia (13%, 6 mi), Auburn (9%, 12 mi), Syracuse (5%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Niles walkable?
Niles is more walkable than 17% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Niles without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Niles, from the people who make the trip.
More of Niles
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.