Photo: Mwanner | Talk. Original uploader was Mwanner at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0A job hub: Paul Smiths has 2.1 jobs per working resident, and 250 people come in to work
The average commute takes 8 minutes each way (New York 33, U.S. 26). There are 252 jobs in Paul Smiths for 121 working residents. Only 2% stay in Paul Smiths for work; outside it, Harrietstown is the main destination (23%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
In and out of Paul Smiths on a workday
On a workday 119 residents head out to work and 2 work right here.
About 750 people are in Paul Smiths on a workday afternoon, 21% more 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.
Who travels to work in Paul Smiths, and from where
Where Paul Smiths clocks in
23% of workers
21% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Paul Smiths
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Paul Smiths, 2013 → 2023: 361 → 252. 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 Paul Smiths’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Paul Smiths spends getting to work: about 8 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 2.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Paul Smiths workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 216 commuters (the 15% 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 Paul Smiths, by distance
About 27% 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.
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 Paul Smiths: questions
What is the poverty rate in Paul Smiths?
0.0%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Paul Smiths?
8 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Paul Smiths work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Harrietstown (23%, 15 mi), North Elba (21%, 19 mi), St. Armand (5%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Paul Smiths without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 100% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Paul Smiths, from the people who make the trip.
More of Paul Smiths
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.