Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0Sodus has lower household incomes than 81% of U.S. towns
13.5% of residents live below the poverty line, against 14.0% across New York. Sodus grades C for jobs and income and A for walkability. For 2% of workers, the job is at home; New York has 15%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Sodus: the gist
Sodus and Sodus trade workers both ways
Sodus is the top workplace for Sodus residents (19%) and also where the most people who work in Sodus come from (33% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Sodus than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Sodus fell from 935 in 2013 to 544 in 2023, −42%. 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 ↓
Commutes from Sodus are quick
The average trip to work takes 23 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 77 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
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; with 758 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Sodus gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Sodus is better than 28% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Sodus’ grade up (ahead of 52% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($55,000, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (2.5%) is left out: Sodus’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Sodus could be anywhere from D to B.
19% of working residents work in Sodus
Where Sodus clocks in
19% 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.
The 544 jobs based in Sodus
544 jobs are based in Sodus.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sodus, 2013 → 2023: 935 → 544. 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 Sodus’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 23 minutes from Sodus
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sodus workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 815 commuters (the 2% 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.
In and out of Sodus on a workday
On a workday 716 residents head out to work, 42 work right here, and 502 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Sodus on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.72 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.
How far it is to work from Sodus
About 16% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Sodus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Sodus is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Sodus near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 833 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). 3.2% of Sodus households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Sodus’ commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300, Sodus ranks 3,577th of 5,760 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,575 | Murphys CA | 1,951 | $74K | 10.0% | 2.1% | 12% | C |
| 3,576 | Delcambre LA | 1,766 | $59K | 18.5% | 7.0% | 3% | C |
| 3,577 | Sodus NY | 1,692 | $55K | 13.5% | 2.5% | 6% | C |
| 3,578 | Plymouth NY | 1,588 | $78K | 13.2% | 5.9% | 0% | C |
| 3,579 | Buena Vista WI | 1,794 | $73K | 10.8% | 3.0% | 2% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | 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 Sodus, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
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 Sodus: questions
What is the median household income in Sodus?
$55,000 (±$15,974) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sodus?
13.5%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sodus?
23 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sodus work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sodus (19%, 2 mi), Rochester (8%, 28 mi), Arcadia (6%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sodus walkable?
Sodus is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 9.3 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sodus without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sodus, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sodus
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.