Photo: scanned by Dave Parker · Public domainOneida has lower household incomes than 71% of U.S. towns
About one in five work in Oneida itself; outside it, Verona draws the most (11%, 7 miles). Poverty touches 14.3% of residents, where New York as a whole has 14.0%. The two grades for Oneida are C+ for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Oneida, in a few figures
Commutes from Oneida 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 ↓
Oneida trades workers with the towns around it
Oneida has about as many jobs (5,111) as working residents (4,465), but they are mostly different people: 3,614 residents leave for work each day while 4,260 people come in. Only 17% of the jobs in Oneida are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
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.
Where Oneida’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Oneida is better than 41% of U.S. towns, #488 of 758 in New York. Unemployment holds Oneida’s grade up (3.5%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($61,597, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Oneida could be anywhere from C to B.
The daily trip from Oneida: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Oneida workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,389 commuters (the 8% 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.
Who leaves Oneida for work, and who comes in
On a workday 3,614 residents head out to work, 851 work right here, and 4,260 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 (1.14 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.
The places Oneida commutes to
Where Oneida clocks in
11% of workers
7% 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 Oneida’s employers do
5,111 jobs are based in Oneida.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Oneida, 2013 → 2023: 5,347 → 5,111. 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 Oneida’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Oneida, 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Oneida
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Oneida is more walkable than 83% of U.S. towns, #249 of 758 in New York. Both inputs place Oneida 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 4,769 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 13.0% of Oneida households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Oneida’s commuters take a bus or train.
Oneida next to U.S. towns of 7,000 to 14,000: 1,954th of 2,878 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 98 | East Rockaway NY | 10,096 | $125K | 2.6% | 3.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 101 | North Castle NY | 12,360 | $208K | 3.8% | 3.1% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 131 | Hastings-on-Hudson NY | 8,440 | $194K | 2.3% | 4.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,952 | Riverside Township NJ | 8,231 | $76K | 18.9% | 7.8% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,953 | Decorah IA | 7,417 | $64K | 8.1% | 4.0% | 46% | C+ |
| 1,954 | Oneida NY | 10,009 | $62K | 14.3% | 3.5% | 19% | C+ |
| 1,955 | Chehalis WA | 7,764 | $74K | 15.0% | 4.0% | 17% | C+ |
| 1,956 | North Lakes AK | 10,223 | $102K | 7.3% | 7.1% | — | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,878 | 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 Oneida, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Oneida and its neighbors: 23% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Oneida workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oneida | – | C+ | A− | 19 min | $61,597 |
| Vernon | 6% | B | C | 22 min | $77,601 |
| Verona | 11% | B− | C | 19 min | $83,534 |
| Sherrill | under 2% | A− | C+ | 21 min | $88,947 |
| Oneida Castle | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Durhamville | under 2% | — | — | 17 min | — |
| Lenox | 6% | C+ | C+ | 25 min | $75,900 |
| Lincoln | under 2% | B+ | C− | 27 min | $96,100 |
| Stockbridge | under 2% | B− | C+ | 26 min | $76,154 |
| Wampsville | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Oneida Castle and Wampsville: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Durhamville: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Verona. Darker towns draw more of Oneida’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 Oneida: questions
What is the median household income in Oneida?
$61,597 (±$5,738) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Oneida?
14.3%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Oneida?
19 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Oneida work?
19% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Verona (11%, 7 mi), Syracuse (7%, 24 mi), Lenox (6%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Oneida walkable?
Oneida is more walkable than 83% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.3 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Oneida without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Oneida, from the people who make the trip.
More of Oneida
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.