Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0More people are out of work in Pompey (8.6%) than in 91% of U.S. towns
Household incomes here are higher than in 84% of U.S. towns. Pompey grades B for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Only 4% work in Pompey itself; outside it, Syracuse draws the most (27%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Pompey at work: what stands out
Commutes from Pompey are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 92 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Pompey makes and builds things
54% of the jobs based in Pompey are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Pompey residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 15%. The jobs ↓
Pompey is a place people come home to
There are 537 jobs based in Pompey, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Pompey has about 4,500 people in it, 36% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Pompey has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Pompey went from 349 in 2013 to 537 in 2023, +54%. 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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Why Pompey gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Pompey is better than 65% of U.S. towns, #301 of 758 in New York. The poverty rate holds Pompey’s grade up (3.4%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down. It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Pompey could be anywhere from B− to A.
The trip to work from Pompey: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pompey workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,840 commuters (the 16% 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.
A place that makes things: 54% of Pompey’s jobs are in goods
537 jobs are based in Pompey.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pompey, 2013 → 2023: 349 → 537. 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 Pompey’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Pompey
On a workday 2,921 residents head out to work, 113 work right here, and 424 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,500 people are in Pompey on a workday afternoon, 36% fewer than live here.
0.18 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where people from Pompey work
Where Pompey clocks in
27% of workers
8% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Pompey
About 16% 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.
Few in Pompey walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pompey is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns, #619 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 3.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,385 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 2.1% of Pompey households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pompey’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Pompey is 1,349th of 3,167 U.S. towns of 4,900 to 9,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Lawrence NY | 6,847 | $170K | 3.5% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Irvington NY | 6,533 | $173K | 1.6% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| 16 | Kings Point NY | 5,710 | $211K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,347 | Wilson PA | 8,159 | $83K | 10.5% | 4.1% | 4% | B |
| 1,348 | Logan Township NJ | 6,126 | $114K | 16.0% | 5.0% | 12% | B |
| 1,349 | Pompey NY | 6,995 | $111K | 3.4% | 8.6% | 4% | B |
| 1,350 | South San Gabriel CA | 7,923 | $77K | 6.8% | 6.9% | 2% | B |
| 1,351 | Sandown NH | 6,753 | $135K | 10.8% | 4.9% | 3% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,167 | 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 Pompey, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
The towns next door employ 10% of Pompey
The biggest share goes to Manlius (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Pompey’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 Pompey: questions
What is the median household income in Pompey?
$111,000 (±$18,384) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pompey?
3.4%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pompey?
21 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pompey work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Syracuse (27%, 12 mi), DeWitt (12%, 10 mi), Manlius (8%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pompey walkable?
Pompey is more walkable than 35% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 3.9 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pompey without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pompey, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pompey
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.