Photo: DanielPenfield · CC BY-SA 3.0Pittsford draws 1,792 commuters a day, with 3.1 jobs for every working resident
Measured by household income, Pittsford is ahead of 88% of U.S. towns. Employers in Pittsford report 1,810 jobs, and 590 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Pittsford is among the top U.S. towns (A+); for walkability it is more walkable than 94% of U.S. towns (A).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Pittsford and work: the main findings
Pittsford has far more jobs than workers
Pittsford has 1,810 jobs, 3.1 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,500 people are in town, 92% more than the 1,300 who live here. Day and night ↓
Most Pittsford residents work close to home
71% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Commutes from Pittsford are quick
The average trip to work takes 17 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 123 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. 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; with 590 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Pittsford gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Pittsford is among the top U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Pittsford’s grade. It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (3.0%) is left out: Pittsford’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A firm grade. At either end of the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Pittsford stays A+.
How many people are in Pittsford by day
On a workday 572 residents head out to work and 18 work right here.
About 2,500 people are in Pittsford on a workday afternoon, 92% 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.
How many miles Pittsford commutes
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.
Getting to work from Pittsford takes about 17 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pittsford workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 661 commuters (the 26% 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.
Where Pittsford’s workers come from
Where Pittsford clocks in
32% of workers
12% 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.
Pittsford is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pittsford, 2013 → 2023: 1,828 → 1,810. 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 Pittsford’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Pittsford
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 893 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 91% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 5% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 5.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 84% 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). 2.4% of Pittsford households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Pittsford’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Pittsford is 54th of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 52 | Lake Quivira KS | 1,005 | $178K | 3.8% | 0.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 53 | Alpine NJ | 1,759 | $247K | 6.2% | 6.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 54 | Pittsford NY | 1,323 | $119K | 1.9% | 3.0% | 3% | A+ |
| 55 | Weston TX | 1,140 | $144K | 2.8% | 0.7% | 0% | A+ |
| 56 | Lexington Township KS | 1,512 | $135K | 0.0% | 2.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Pittsford, 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 Pittsford: questions
What is the median household income in Pittsford?
$119,211 (±$21,894) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pittsford?
1.9%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pittsford?
17 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 26% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pittsford work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rochester (32%, 8 mi), Pittsford (12%, 1 mi), Henrietta (7%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pittsford walkable?
Pittsford is more walkable than 94% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 13.6 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pittsford without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 5% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pittsford, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pittsford
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.