Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Sangerfield’s household incomes are higher than in 70% of U.S. towns
About one in seven work in Sangerfield itself; outside it, Utica draws the most (13%, 16 miles). Poverty touches 4.2% of residents (New York 14.0%). For jobs and income Sangerfield is better than 73% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns (B+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Sangerfield
Commutes from Sangerfield are quick
The average trip to work takes 24 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 69 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Sangerfield makes and builds things
39% of the jobs based in Sangerfield are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Sangerfield residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 17%. The jobs ↓
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.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Sangerfield
The poverty rate holds Sangerfield’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 44% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Sangerfield could be anywhere from B− to A.
Getting to work from Sangerfield takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sangerfield workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,118 commuters (the 14% 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.
39% of the jobs in Sangerfield make or build things
922 jobs are based in Sangerfield.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sangerfield, 2013 → 2023: 734 → 922. 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 Sangerfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in Sangerfield, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 940 residents head out to work, 157 work right here, and 765 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.84 per resident).
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 Sangerfield goes to work
Where Sangerfield clocks in
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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Sangerfield
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.
The commute in Sangerfield is mostly behind the wheel
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 7.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,307 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). 7.9% of Sangerfield households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sangerfield’s commuters take a bus or train.
Sangerfield next to U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,000: 1,031st of 5,102 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| 8 | Village of the Branch NY | 1,764 | $174K | 1.5% | 3.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 9 | Old Brookville NY | 2,098 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,029 | Paxtang PA | 1,632 | $87K | 4.1% | 6.6% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,030 | Holland MA | 2,577 | $92K | 5.9% | 3.9% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,031 | Sangerfield NY | 2,249 | $92K | 4.2% | 3.5% | 14% | B+ |
| 1,032 | South Pymatuning Township PA | 2,566 | $78K | 4.7% | 3.2% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,033 | Garrett WA | 1,697 | $119K | 6.4% | 5.9% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,102 | 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 Sangerfield, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Work in the towns next to Sangerfield
The biggest share goes to Marshall (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Sangerfield workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sangerfield | – | B+ | B+ | 24 min | $91,563 |
| Marshall | 3% | A− | C+ | 21 min | $101,250 |
| Madison | under 3% | B | B− | 22 min | $76,895 |
| Bridgewater | under 3% | D | D | 23 min | $44,850 |
| Brookfield | under 3% | C− | D | 36 min | $69,205 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Sangerfield’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 Sangerfield: questions
What is the median household income in Sangerfield?
$91,563 (±$13,651) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sangerfield?
4.2%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sangerfield?
24 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sangerfield work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Utica (13%, 16 mi), New Hartford (9%, 12 mi), Hamilton (5%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sangerfield walkable?
Sangerfield is more walkable than 68% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sangerfield without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sangerfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sangerfield
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.