Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel · CC BY-SA 4.0Earning a living in Trumansburg
The two grades for Trumansburg are C+ for jobs and income and A− for walkability. About one in ten work in Trumansburg itself; outside it, Ithaca draws the most (26%, 11 miles). For 21% of workers, the job is at home; New York has 15%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Trumansburg’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Trumansburg is better than 37% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Trumansburg’s grade up (9.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 31% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.1%) is left out: Trumansburg’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, Trumansburg could be anywhere from D to B+.
The workday shuffle in and out of Trumansburg
On a workday 632 residents head out to work, 68 work right here, and 504 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.82 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where Trumansburg’s working residents head each day
Where Trumansburg clocks in
26% of workers
19% of workers
16% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Trumansburg
572 jobs are based in Trumansburg.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Trumansburg, 2014 → 2024: 513 → 572. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Trumansburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Trumansburg spends getting to work: about 35 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Trumansburg workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 577 commuters (the 21% 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 distance from Trumansburg to work
About 15% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Good to walk, short on transit: Trumansburg
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Trumansburg is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 7.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 730 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). 6.8% of Trumansburg households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Trumansburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400, Trumansburg ranks 3,130th of 6,085 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,128 | Fulda MN | 1,303 | $71K | 7.3% | 2.5% | 8% | C+ |
| 3,129 | Chatham NY | 1,538 | $80K | 10.7% | 2.2% | 8% | C+ |
| 3,130 | Trumansburg NY | 1,755 | $69K | 9.3% | 5.1% | 10% | C+ |
| 3,131 | Mountain View WY | 1,264 | $98K | 10.3% | 4.4% | 23% | C+ |
| 3,132 | Santa Anna Township IL | 2,249 | $73K | 8.6% | 8.1% | 19% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Trumansburg, 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 2024, 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 Trumansburg: questions
What is the median household income in Trumansburg?
$68,967 (±$26,478) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Trumansburg?
9.3%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Trumansburg?
35 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Trumansburg work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ithaca (26%, 11 mi), Ithaca (19%, 10 mi), Ulysses (16%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Trumansburg walkable?
Trumansburg is more walkable than 79% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Trumansburg without a car?
0% 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 Trumansburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Trumansburg
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.