Photo: Beyond My Ken · CC BY-SA 4.0Northville at work: jobs, income and the commute
Commuters spend 30 minutes getting to work on average, where New York has 33 and the U.S. 26. Working from home is the commute for 7% of workers, against 15% across New York. About one in ten work in Northville itself; outside it, Northampton draws the most (12%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Northville on a workday afternoon
On a workday 337 residents head out to work, 40 work right here, and 290 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 (0.88 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Northville: the destinations
Where Northville clocks in
8% 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.
What the 330 jobs in Northville are
330 jobs are based in Northville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Northville, 2014 → 2024: 257 → 330. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Northville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 30 minutes in Northville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Northville workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 422 commuters (the 7% 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.
Miles to work from Northville
About 19% 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 2024.
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 2024, 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 Northville: questions
What is the median household income in Northville?
$78,235 (±$12,829) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Northville?
7.5%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Northville?
30 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Northville work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Northampton (12%, 4 mi), Gloversville (10%, 15 mi), Johnstown (8%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Northville 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 Northville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Northville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.