Photo: Mitchazenia · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Pembroke works elsewhere
Employers in Pembroke report 893 jobs for 1,980 working residents. Jobs and income earn Pembroke B+; getting around on foot earns it C. For 4% of workers, the job is at home, where New York as a whole has 15%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Pembroke, in brief
Commutes from Pembroke are quick
The average trip to work takes 26 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Pembroke workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 15% across New York. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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.
The figures behind Pembroke’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Pembroke is better than 68% of U.S. towns, #266 of 758 in New York. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Pembroke’s grade. It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Pembroke could be anywhere from C+ to A.
Time on the road from Pembroke: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pembroke workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,170 commuters (the 4% 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.
Pembroke on a workday afternoon
On a workday 1,794 residents head out to work, 186 work right here, and 707 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,200 people are in Pembroke on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
10% of working residents work in Batavia
Where Pembroke clocks in
10% of workers
8% 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.
What Pembroke’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pembroke, 2013 → 2023: 900 → 893. 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 Pembroke’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Pembroke
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.
Pembroke is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pembroke is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns, #660 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,253 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). 8.6% of Pembroke households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pembroke’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,039 U.S. towns of 3,000 to 5,800, Pembroke comes 1,311th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Lloyd Harbor NY | 3,587 | $250K | 2.1% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Kings Point NY | 5,710 | $211K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | North Hills NY | 5,481 | $173K | 3.0% | 1.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,309 | Filer ID | 3,026 | $65K | 5.1% | 0.7% | 6% | B+ |
| 1,310 | Mosinee WI | 4,529 | $73K | 9.3% | 0.0% | 14% | B+ |
| 1,311 | Pembroke NY | 4,292 | $92K | 8.8% | 3.1% | 9% | B+ |
| 1,312 | Liberty Township OH | 3,963 | $67K | 5.8% | 1.2% | 6% | B+ |
| 1,313 | Aurora NE | 4,787 | $78K | 4.8% | 2.1% | 39% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,039 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Pembroke, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
10% of Pembroke works in a town next door
The biggest share goes to Batavia (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Pembroke’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 Pembroke: questions
What is the median household income in Pembroke?
$91,534 (±$13,570) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pembroke?
8.8%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pembroke?
26 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pembroke work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Batavia (10%, 10 mi), Amherst (8%, 19 mi), Newstead (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pembroke walkable?
Pembroke is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pembroke without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pembroke, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pembroke
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.