Scriba has higher household incomes than 70% of U.S. towns
7% of workers work from home; New York has 15%. Poverty touches 10.3% of residents, next to 14.0% for New York as a whole. The two grades for Scriba are B− for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Scriba stands out on work
Scriba makes and builds things
65% of the jobs based in Scriba are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Scriba residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 16%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Scriba are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 92 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
The jobs in Scriba pay better than its residents’ jobs
84% of the jobs based in Scriba pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 62% of the jobs Scriba residents hold. 84% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Scriba. The jobs ↓
Scriba and Oswego trade workers both ways
Oswego is the top workplace for Scriba residents (26%) and also where the most people who work in Scriba come from (16% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Scriba than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Scriba fell from 2,449 in 2013 to 1,775 in 2023, −28%. 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 ↓
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.
Scriba’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Scriba is better than 52% of U.S. towns, #398 of 758 in New York. Household income holds Scriba’s grade up ($92,036, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 32% of U.S. towns). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Scriba could be anywhere from C to A−.
Scriba makes things: 65% of its jobs are in goods
1,775 jobs are based in Scriba.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Scriba, 2013 → 2023: 2,449 → 1,775. 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 Scriba’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 21 minutes in Scriba
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Scriba workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,078 commuters (the 7% 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.
26% of working residents work in Oswego
Where Scriba clocks in
26% of workers
8% 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.
Who commutes out of Scriba, and who commutes in
On a workday 2,559 residents head out to work, 288 work right here, and 1,487 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,600 people are in Scriba on a workday afternoon, 16% fewer than live here.
0.62 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 distance from Scriba to work
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.
In Scriba, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Scriba is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns, #507 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 4.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,294 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 4.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 81% 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). 7.6% of Scriba households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Scriba’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Scriba is 1,769th of 3,283 U.S. towns of 4,600 to 8,900
| # | 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 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Lawrence NY | 6,847 | $170K | 3.5% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Irvington NY | 6,533 | $173K | 1.6% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| 14 | Kings Point NY | 5,710 | $211K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,767 | Ojai CA | 7,474 | $83K | 8.2% | 4.6% | 17% | B− |
| 1,768 | Clyde Township MI | 5,422 | $84K | 6.5% | 5.0% | 2% | B− |
| 1,769 | Scriba NY | 6,628 | $92K | 10.3% | 3.9% | 10% | B− |
| 1,770 | Jackson Township OH | 6,171 | $77K | 12.1% | 4.8% | 7% | B− |
| 1,771 | Granville Township PA | 4,625 | $76K | 6.4% | 3.5% | 12% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,283 | 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 Scriba, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Next door is work for 28% of Scriba
The biggest share goes to Oswego (26%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Scriba’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 Scriba: questions
What is the median household income in Scriba?
$92,036 (±$16,988) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Scriba?
10.3%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Scriba?
21 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Scriba work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oswego (26%, 4 mi), Oswego (8%, 8 mi), Syracuse (8%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Scriba walkable?
Scriba is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Scriba without a car?
<1% 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 Scriba, from the people who make the trip.
More of Scriba
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.