Photo: Phmalo · CC BY-SA 2.5With 0.0 jobs for every working resident, most of Scott works elsewhere
The two grades for Scott are C+ for jobs and income and C for walkability. Scott has 11 jobs; 400 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Scott; the top destination outside it is Cortland (14%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Scott: the gist
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Scott
On income, poverty and job access, Scott is better than 38% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Scott’s grade up ($93,889, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 18% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (10.7%) is left out: Scott’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, Scott could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Scott on a workday afternoon
On a workday 397 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 8 people come in from elsewhere.
About 670 people are in Scott on a workday afternoon, 37% 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.
The places Scott commutes to
Where Scott clocks in
14% of workers
12% of workers
11% 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.
Scott is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Scott, 2013 → 2023: 4 → 11. 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 Scott’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 34 minutes each way, about the NY average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Scott workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 457 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.
The commute from Scott, by distance
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.
The commute in Scott is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Scott is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 2.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 522 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 7.3% of Scott households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Scott’s commuters take a bus or train.
Scott places 1,426th of 3,133 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,424 | Larimore ND | 1,359 | $88K | 8.3% | 2.5% | 12% | C+ |
| 1,425 | Rocky Ridge UT | 1,078 | $96K | 12.7% | 1.6% | 5% | C+ |
| 1,426 | Scott NY | 1,063 | $94K | 12.8% | 10.7% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,427 | Moravian Falls NC | 1,285 | $48K | 5.4% | 0.0% | 2% | C+ |
| 1,428 | Hilbert WI | 1,237 | $61K | 14.3% | 1.3% | 7% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Scott, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Bordering towns draw 16% of Scott’s workers
The biggest share goes to Homer (11%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Scott workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott | – | C+ | C | 34 min | $93,889 |
| Homer | 11% | B+ | B− | 23 min | $74,012 |
| Preble | 5% | B | D | 27 min | $82,083 |
| Spafford | under 2% | B+ | C | 32 min | $111,138 |
| Sempronius | under 2% | — | — | 29 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Sempronius: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Scott’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 Scott: questions
What is the median household income in Scott?
$93,889 (±$15,512) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Scott?
12.8%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Scott?
34 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 Scott work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cortland (14%, 10 mi), Cortlandville (12%, 11 mi), Homer (11%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Scott walkable?
Scott is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 2.3 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Scott without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Scott, from the people who make the trip.
More of Scott
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.