Nunda’s household incomes are lower than in 81% of U.S. towns
About one in ten work in Nunda; the top destination outside it is Nunda (18%, 3 miles). Below the poverty line: 32.1% of residents, next to 14.0% across New York. For jobs and income Nunda is better than 4% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 97% of U.S. towns (A+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Nunda and work: the main findings
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Nunda
Household income holds Nunda’s grade up ($54,779, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (3.6%) is left out: Nunda’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, Nunda could be anywhere from D− to D.
Out of Nunda to work: where people go
Where Nunda clocks in
8% of workers
6% 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.
Who commutes out of Nunda, and who commutes in
On a workday 471 residents head out to work, 61 work right here, and 300 people come in from elsewhere.
About 980 people are in Nunda on a workday afternoon, 15% fewer than live here.
0.68 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Goods jobs make up 28% of work in Nunda
361 jobs are based in Nunda.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Nunda, 2013 → 2023: 376 → 361. 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 Nunda’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Nunda: about 32 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Nunda workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 483 commuters (the 10% 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.
The commute from Nunda, by distance
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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Nunda
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 534 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 99% 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). 8.2% of Nunda households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Nunda’s commuters take a bus or train.
Nunda next to U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,988 | Springdale Township MI | 1,433 | $53K | 19.4% | 6.5% | <1% | D− |
| 3,989 | Junction City CA | 1,190 | $48K | 16.1% | 4.3% | 6% | D− |
| 3,990 | Nunda NY | 1,155 | $55K | 32.1% | 3.6% | 11% | D− |
| 3,991 | Bryson City NC | 1,525 | $44K | 24.3% | 1.0% | 20% | D− |
| 3,992 | McConnellsburg PA | 1,112 | $37K | 22.2% | 2.0% | 7% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Nunda, 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 Nunda: questions
What is the median household income in Nunda?
$54,779 (±$14,815) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Nunda?
32.1%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Nunda?
32 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Nunda work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Nunda (18%, 3 mi), Rochester (8%, 44 mi), Geneseo (6%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Nunda walkable?
Nunda is more walkable than 97% of U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 12.6 out of 20, and 13% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Nunda without a car?
3% 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 Nunda, from the people who make the trip.
More of Nunda
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.