Household incomes in Tully top those of 83% of U.S. towns
Tully grades B+ for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. The poverty rate is 9.9%, against 14.0% across New York. About one in seven work in Tully; the top destination outside it is Syracuse (19%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Tully, in brief
Tully trades workers with the towns around it
Tully has about as many jobs (1,452) as working residents (1,269), but they are mostly different people: 1,102 residents leave for work each day while 1,285 people come in. Only 12% of the jobs in Tully are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
55% of the jobs in Tully are in trade, transport and utilities, against 17% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Tully are quick
The average trip to work takes 28 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 38 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 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Why Tully gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Tully is better than 70% of U.S. towns, #255 of 758 in New York. Household income holds Tully’s grade up ($108,529, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down. It also does well on unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Tully could be anywhere from B− to A.
Tully by day and by night
On a workday 1,102 residents head out to work, 167 work right here, and 1,285 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 (1.14 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.
What work there is in Tully: 1,452 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tully, 2014 → 2024: 1,208 → 1,452. 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 Tully’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 28 minutes each way, quicker than most of New York
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tully workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,103 commuters (the 16% 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 Tully’s working residents head each day
Where Tully clocks in
19% of workers
6% 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 commute from Tully, by distance
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Getting around Tully: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Tully is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns, #337 of 758 in New York. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 32.9% across New York.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,316 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 46% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 46% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 57% 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). 4.5% of Tully households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Tully’s commuters take a bus or train.
Tully next to U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,500: 1,264th of 5,083 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Old Brookville NY | 2,098 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | East Williston NY | 2,616 | $215K | 2.3% | 1.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 10 | Laurel Hollow NY | 1,949 | $250K | 3.5% | 2.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,262 | Cohoctah Township MI | 3,185 | $86K | 5.4% | 3.5% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,263 | Buckeye Lake OH | 2,590 | $79K | 15.1% | 1.2% | 6% | B+ |
| 1,264 | Tully NY | 2,618 | $109K | 9.9% | 3.4% | 13% | B+ |
| 1,265 | Byron NY | 2,276 | $99K | 5.4% | 4.9% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,266 | Day Heights OH | 2,457 | $94K | 2.0% | 12.3% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,083 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Tully, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Next door to Tully
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Tully workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tully | – | B+ | B+ | 28 min | $108,529 |
| Fabius | under 2% | B− | C+ | 27 min | $94,063 |
| Preble | under 2% | B | D | 27 min | $82,083 |
| Otisco | under 2% | B+ | C+ | 27 min | $83,950 |
| Spafford | under 2% | B+ | C | 32 min | $111,138 |
| Truxton | under 2% | — | — | 29 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Truxton: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Tully’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 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 Tully: questions
What is the median household income in Tully?
$108,529 (±$13,127) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tully?
9.9%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tully?
28 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tully work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Syracuse (19%, 16 mi), DeWitt (9%, 17 mi), Cortland (6%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Tully walkable?
Tully is more walkable than 74% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 9.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tully without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 46% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tully, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tully
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.