Photo: Lvklock · CC BY-SA 4.0Scipio has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
There are 176 jobs in Scipio for 662 working residents. The two grades for Scipio are C for jobs and income and C− for walkability. About one in ten work in Scipio; the top destination outside it is Auburn (13%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Scipio and work: the main findings
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Scipio
On income, poverty and job access, Scipio is better than 35% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Scipio’s grade up ($76,618, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 21% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.7%) is left out: Scipio’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, Scipio could be anywhere from C− to B−.
From Scipio, about 23 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Scipio workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 576 commuters (the 12% 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 works in Scipio, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 599 residents head out to work, 63 work right here, and 113 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Scipio 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.
Where Scipio goes to work
Where Scipio clocks in
13% 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.
Making and building: 74% of jobs based in Scipio
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Scipio, 2013 → 2023: 137 → 176. 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 Scipio’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Scipio
About 20% 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.
In Scipio, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Scipio is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 3.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 657 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). 0.2% of Scipio households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Scipio’s commuters take a bus or train.
Scipio is 2,810th of 5,397 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,000 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 5 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,808 | Ashmore Township IL | 1,117 | $75K | 10.4% | 7.7% | 1% | C |
| 2,809 | Harrison Township IN | 1,895 | $88K | 15.1% | 0.3% | 6% | C |
| 2,810 | Scipio NY | 1,516 | $77K | 10.6% | 3.7% | 10% | C |
| 2,811 | South Coatesville PA | 1,773 | $76K | 15.0% | 9.3% | 2% | C |
| 2,812 | Richmond Township MI | 1,697 | $71K | 9.4% | 2.5% | 4% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,397 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Scipio, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
How Scipio compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Venice (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Scipio’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 Scipio: questions
What is the median household income in Scipio?
$76,618 (±$7,409) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Scipio?
10.6%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Scipio?
23 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Scipio work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Auburn (13%, 10 mi), Ledyard (7%, 6 mi), Lansing (5%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Scipio walkable?
Scipio is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 3.4 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Scipio without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and <1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Scipio, from the people who make the trip.
More of Scipio
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.