Granger Cottage · Photo: Lvklock · CC BY-SA 3.0Prattsburgh has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Prattsburgh grades C+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability. There are 287 jobs in Prattsburgh, against 671 working residents. About one in ten work in Prattsburgh itself; outside it, Bath draws the most (11%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Prattsburgh at work: what stands out
Inside Prattsburgh’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Prattsburgh is better than 38% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Prattsburgh’s grade up (7.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 6% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (2.6%) is left out: Prattsburgh’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, Prattsburgh could be anywhere from C− to B.
A commute of about 28 minutes in Prattsburgh
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Prattsburgh workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 773 commuters (the 11% 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 Prattsburgh for work, and who comes in
On a workday 601 residents head out to work, 70 work right here, and 217 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Prattsburgh on a workday afternoon, 19% 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.
Where Prattsburgh goes to work
Where Prattsburgh clocks in
11% 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 Prattsburgh’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Prattsburgh, 2013 → 2023: 199 → 287. 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 Prattsburgh’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Prattsburgh
About 18% 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.
For most of Prattsburgh, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Prattsburgh is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 866 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). 9.0% of Prattsburgh households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Prattsburgh’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700, Prattsburgh ranks 2,895th of 5,509 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| 9 | Village of the Branch NY | 1,764 | $174K | 1.5% | 3.1% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,893 | Sumas WA | 1,672 | $89K | 9.7% | 2.5% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,894 | Honey Creek Township IL | 1,450 | $93K | 10.4% | 0.3% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,895 | Prattsburgh NY | 1,980 | $77K | 7.1% | 2.6% | 10% | C+ |
| 2,896 | Hale Township OH | 1,529 | $78K | 9.4% | 3.6% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,897 | Stonycreek Township PA | 2,637 | $55K | 11.2% | 4.2% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Prattsburgh, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Prattsburgh and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Urbana (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Prattsburgh workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prattsburgh | – | C+ | B− | 28 min | $77,135 |
| Cohocton | under 2% | C | C | 26 min | $65,286 |
| Italy | under 2% | D | D− | 38 min | $58,750 |
| Pulteney | under 2% | C | C+ | 26 min | $68,906 |
| Wheeler | 2% | D | C− | 32 min | $59,688 |
| Urbana | 4% | C+ | B | 22 min | $76,845 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Prattsburgh’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 Prattsburgh: questions
What is the median household income in Prattsburgh?
$77,135 (±$11,560) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Prattsburgh?
7.1%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Prattsburgh?
28 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Prattsburgh work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bath (11%, 15 mi), Naples (6%, 8 mi), Urbana (4%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Prattsburgh walkable?
Prattsburgh is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Prattsburgh without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Prattsburgh, from the people who make the trip.
More of Prattsburgh
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.