Photo: J. Passepartout · CC BY-SA 4.0Rathbone has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
41 jobs are based in Rathbone; 396 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Rathbone D; getting around on foot earns it C+. For 4% of workers, the job is at home, against 15% across New York.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Rathbone, in brief
Rathbone is a place people come home to
There are 41 jobs based in Rathbone, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Rathbone has about 770 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Rathbone 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; with 396 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Rathbone’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Rathbone is better than 9% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Rathbone’s grade up ($63,375, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (22.8%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (5.1%) is left out: Rathbone’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, Rathbone could be anywhere from D− to C−.
How many people are in Rathbone by day
On a workday 389 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 34 people come in from elsewhere.
About 770 people are in Rathbone on a workday afternoon, 32% 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.
About 32 minutes each way for Rathbone’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 Rathbone workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 411 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.
12% of working residents work in Corning
Where Rathbone clocks in
12% of workers
10% of workers
9% 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.
The kinds of work in Rathbone
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rathbone, 2013 → 2023: 28 → 41. 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 Rathbone’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Rathbone, by distance
About 27% 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 Rathbone commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Rathbone is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 4.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 426 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). 11.6% of Rathbone households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Rathbone’s commuters take a bus or train.
Rathbone is 3,136th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,134 | Oliver Township MI | 1,372 | $56K | 15.6% | 5.7% | 5% | D |
| 3,135 | Day Township MI | 1,182 | $60K | 15.7% | 5.2% | 1% | D |
| 3,136 | Rathbone NY | 1,121 | $63K | 22.8% | 5.1% | 2% | D |
| 3,137 | Marshall Township OH | 1,036 | $67K | 24.0% | 0.0% | 1% | D |
| 3,138 | Dreher Township PA | 1,373 | $52K | 24.8% | 5.0% | 2% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Rathbone, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Around Rathbone: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Addison (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Rathbone workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rathbone | – | D | C+ | 32 min | $63,375 |
| Addison | 3% | C− | B | 26 min | $57,105 |
| Cameron | under 2% | — | — | 33 min | — |
| Woodhull | under 2% | C− | C+ | 26 min | $60,106 |
| Tuscarora | under 2% | C− | D− | 28 min | $77,411 |
Same-state neighbors only. Cameron: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Rathbone’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 Rathbone: questions
What is the median household income in Rathbone?
$63,375 (±$5,846) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rathbone?
22.8%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rathbone?
32 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 Rathbone work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Corning (12%, 15 mi), Erwin (10%, 10 mi), Bath (9%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Rathbone walkable?
Rathbone is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rathbone without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rathbone, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rathbone
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.