Aaron Wilson House · Photo: Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Ovid works elsewhere
338 jobs are based in Ovid, and 916 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Ovid is better than 10% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (B−). Only 7% work in Ovid; the top destination outside it is Covert (9%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Ovid and work: the main findings
A longer commute than the towns next door
Ovid averages 31 minutes each way, more than any bordering town (23 to 26 minutes). Next door ↓
Many jobs in Ovid pay little
28% of the jobs based in Ovid pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
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 916 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Ovid
Household income holds Ovid’s grade up ($63,594, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (22.8%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (4.9%) is left out: Ovid’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, Ovid could be anywhere from D− to C.
What Ovid’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ovid, 2013 → 2023: 301 → 338. 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 Ovid’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Ovid
On a workday 850 residents head out to work, 66 work right here, and 272 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Ovid on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
The places Ovid commutes to
Where Ovid clocks in
7% 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.
Getting to work from Ovid takes about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ovid workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 680 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.
The commute from Ovid, by distance
About 21% 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.
Most trips from Ovid start in a car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 792 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). 14.0% of Ovid households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ovid’s commuters take a bus or train.
4,596th of 5,328: where Ovid ranks among U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| 8 | Village of the Branch NY | 1,764 | $174K | 1.5% | 3.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 9 | Old Brookville NY | 2,098 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,594 | Blacksburg SC | 1,965 | $32K | 31.4% | 10.5% | 3% | D |
| 4,595 | Big Mound Township IL | 1,713 | $35K | 29.0% | 4.6% | 16% | D |
| 4,596 | Ovid NY | 2,264 | $64K | 22.8% | 4.9% | 7% | D |
| 4,597 | Cordova AL | 1,679 | $38K | 29.0% | 4.6% | 4% | D |
| 4,598 | Dennison OH | 2,665 | $52K | 22.9% | 13.2% | 5% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,328 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Ovid, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Ovid and its neighbors: 16% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ovid workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ovid | – | D | B− | 31 min | $63,594 |
| Romulus | 3% | C− | D | 23 min | $69,447 |
| Covert | 9% | C+ | C | 23 min | $75,688 |
| Lodi | 4% | C | C+ | 26 min | $78,489 |
| Torrey | under 3% | C+ | B− | 26 min | $95,500 |
| Genoa | under 3% | B | C | 23 min | $92,833 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Covert. Darker towns draw more of Ovid’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 Ovid: questions
What is the median household income in Ovid?
$63,594 (±$14,549) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ovid?
22.8%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ovid?
31 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 Ovid work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Covert (9%, 7 mi), Ithaca (7%, 21 mi), Ithaca (6%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ovid walkable?
Ovid is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ovid without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ovid, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ovid
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.