Photo: Skudrafan1 at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Summerhill commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Hardly any stay in Summerhill for work; outside it, Moravia is the main destination (9%, 7 miles). Summerhill has 64 jobs for 465 working residents. The two grades for Summerhill are C− for jobs and income and D− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Summerhill at work: what stands out
Why Summerhill gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Summerhill is better than 18% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Summerhill’s grade up ($68,047, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 16% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.0%) is left out: Summerhill’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, Summerhill could be anywhere from D to C.
How many people are in Summerhill by day
On a workday 464 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 63 people come in from elsewhere.
About 690 people are in Summerhill 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.
Where Summerhill’s working residents head each day
Where Summerhill clocks in
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.
30% of the jobs in Summerhill make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Summerhill, 2013 → 2023: 57 → 64. 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 Summerhill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 29 minutes from Summerhill
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Summerhill workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 373 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.
Where in the region Summerhill works
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 Summerhill, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Summerhill is near the bottom of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Summerhill 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 403 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). 9.8% of Summerhill households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Summerhill’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Summerhill is 2,681st of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,679 | Lenox IA | 1,364 | $61K | 11.3% | 1.2% | 38% | C− |
| 2,680 | Taylorsville KY | 1,333 | $43K | 28.7% | 2.9% | 8% | C− |
| 2,681 | Summerhill NY | 1,091 | $68K | 15.9% | 1.0% | <1% | C− |
| 2,682 | Conneaut Township PA | 1,307 | $58K | 10.8% | 0.7% | 2% | C− |
| 2,683 | Camp Point IL | 1,119 | $62K | 14.9% | 2.3% | 8% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Summerhill, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
11% of Summerhill works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Cortlandville (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Summerhill workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summerhill | – | C− | D− | 29 min | $68,047 |
| Locke | under 3% | C− | D− | 23 min | $69,125 |
| Groton | 3% | B− | B− | 21 min | $69,113 |
| Homer | under 3% | B+ | B− | 23 min | $74,012 |
| Sempronius | under 3% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Cortlandville | 8% | C+ | B+ | 21 min | $73,617 |
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 Summerhill’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 Summerhill: questions
What is the median household income in Summerhill?
$68,047 (±$8,454) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Summerhill?
15.9%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Summerhill?
29 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 Summerhill work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Moravia (9%, 7 mi), Cortland (8%, 8 mi), Cortlandville (8%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Summerhill walkable?
Summerhill is near the bottom of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.3 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Summerhill without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Summerhill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Summerhill
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.