William Taylor House · Photo: Pubdog · Public domainRoyalton has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
About one in ten work in Royalton itself; outside it, Amherst draws the most (12%, 14 miles). Royalton has 1,339 jobs, and 3,512 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Royalton B; getting around on foot earns it C+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Royalton stands out on work
The figures behind Royalton’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Royalton is better than 64% of U.S. towns, #311 of 758 in New York. The poverty rate holds Royalton’s grade up (4.1%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (6.1%, U.S. 5.2%). 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, Royalton could be anywhere from B− to A.
Royalton works in goods: 36% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Royalton, 2013 → 2023: 1,369 → 1,339. 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 Royalton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Royalton: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 3,137 residents head out to work, 375 work right here, and 964 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,300 people are in Royalton on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
Out of Royalton to work: where people go
Where Royalton clocks in
12% of workers
9% 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.
Commuting from Royalton: about 33 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Royalton workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,115 commuters (the 13% 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.
Royalton’s commute, mile by mile
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.
Driving is how Royalton gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Royalton is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns, #568 of 758 in New York. 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 5.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,575 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). 7.1% of Royalton households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Royalton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,083 U.S. towns of 5,200 to 10,000, Royalton comes 1,381st on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,379 | Gaines Township MI | 6,610 | $84K | 4.7% | 5.6% | 2% | B |
| 1,380 | Allamuchy Township NJ | 5,484 | $132K | 6.2% | 10.0% | 5% | B |
| 1,381 | Royalton NY | 7,425 | $92K | 4.1% | 6.1% | 11% | B |
| 1,382 | Parkwood WA | 6,873 | $89K | 7.6% | 3.7% | 2% | B |
| 1,383 | Wilmore KY | 6,380 | $78K | 12.5% | 2.5% | 16% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,083 | 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 Royalton, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Next door is work for 14% of Royalton
The biggest share goes to Lockport (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Royalton workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royalton | – | B | C+ | 33 min | $92,373 |
| Newstead | 4% | B | B− | 24 min | $71,200 |
| Clarence | under 4% | A− | B | 23 min | $124,800 |
| Lockport | 6% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Hartland | under 4% | B+ | C | 34 min | $91,901 |
| Shelby | 4% | C+ | B− | 26 min | $65,655 |
| Alabama | under 4% | B | C− | 30 min | $81,833 |
| Rapids | under 4% | — | — | 25 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Lockport: the same community as the city of that name, graded once. Rapids: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Royalton’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 Royalton: questions
What is the median household income in Royalton?
$92,373 (±$11,657) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Royalton?
4.1%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Royalton?
33 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Royalton work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Amherst (12%, 14 mi), Buffalo (9%, 24 mi), Lockport (8%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Royalton walkable?
Royalton is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Royalton without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Royalton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Royalton
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.