Riverside has 8.2 jobs for every working resident: 1,674 people commute in to work
Riverside has 1,684 jobs, and 206 of its residents work somewhere. The average commute takes 18 minutes each way; New York averages 33, the U.S. 26. Working from home is the commute for 21% of workers (New York 15%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Riverside
Riverside fills up on a workday
Riverside has 1,684 jobs, 8.2 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,900 people are in town, 5 times the 420 who live here. Day and night ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Riverside than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Riverside fell from 3,728 in 2013 to 1,684 in 2023, −55%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Riverside and Corning trade workers both ways
Corning is the top workplace for Riverside residents (22%) and also where the most people who work in Riverside come from (14% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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 206 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Riverside on a workday afternoon
On a workday 196 residents head out to work and 10 work right here.
About 1,900 people are in Riverside on a workday afternoon, 352% 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.
Riverside is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Riverside, 2013 → 2023: 3,728 → 1,684. 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 Riverside’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Riverside’s workforce comes from
Where Riverside clocks in
22% of workers
13% 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.
How long Riverside spends getting to work: about 18 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Riverside workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 213 commuters (the 21% 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.
How far it is to work from Riverside
About 19% 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.
22% of Riverside works in a bordering town
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Corning. Darker towns draw more of Riverside’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 Riverside: questions
What is the median household income in Riverside?
$88,750 (±$26,437) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Riverside?
12.5%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Riverside?
18 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Riverside work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Corning (22%, 1 mi), Erwin (13%, 3 mi), Elmira (9%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Riverside without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Riverside, from the people who make the trip.
More of Riverside
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.