Port Byron has lower household incomes than 89% of U.S. towns
For 3% of workers, the job is at home, against 15% across New York. Below the poverty line: 24.6% of residents; New York has 14.0%. Port Byron grades D for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Port Byron: the figures worth knowing
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Port Byron
On income, poverty and job access, Port Byron is better than 14% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Port Byron’s grade up (ahead of 51% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
Unemployment (5.0%) is left out: Port Byron’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, Port Byron could be anywhere from D to C+.
About 32 minutes each way for Port Byron’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Port Byron workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 352 commuters (the 3% 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.
Who leaves Port Byron for work, and who comes in
On a workday 452 residents head out to work, 21 work right here, and 240 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Port Byron on a workday afternoon, 17% fewer than live here.
0.55 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.
16% of working residents work in Auburn
Where Port Byron clocks in
16% of workers
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.
What the 261 jobs in Port Byron are
261 jobs are based in Port Byron.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Port Byron, 2013 → 2023: 315 → 261. 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 Port Byron’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Port Byron
About 15% 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 of Port Byron commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Port Byron is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 6.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 362 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). 20.7% of Port Byron households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Port Byron’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Port Byron ranks: 3,304th of 4,312 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,600
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,302 | Meenon WI | 1,251 | $63K | 13.3% | 6.4% | 7% | D |
| 3,303 | Fayette IA | 1,185 | $48K | 25.7% | 5.4% | 13% | D |
| 3,304 | Port Byron NY | 1,215 | $49K | 24.6% | 5.0% | 4% | D |
| 3,305 | Frazeysburg OH | 1,356 | $51K | 16.3% | 4.6% | 3% | D |
| 3,306 | Orel Township IL | 1,338 | $49K | 11.0% | 2.3% | 7% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Port Byron, 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 Port Byron: questions
What is the median household income in Port Byron?
$48,750 (±$15,818) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Port Byron?
24.6%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Port Byron?
32 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Port Byron work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Auburn (16%, 8 mi), Mentz (7%, 0 mi), Syracuse (6%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Port Byron walkable?
Port Byron is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Port Byron without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 21% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Port Byron, from the people who make the trip.
More of Port Byron
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.