Photo: Tyler A. McNeil · CC BY 3.0Unadilla has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
The two grades for Unadilla are D for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. Employers in Unadilla report 173 jobs for 437 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers, next to 15% for New York as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Unadilla and work: the main findings
A big share show a job far from home
39% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Commutes from Unadilla 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 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 437 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Unadilla’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Unadilla is better than 13% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Unadilla’s grade up ($65,972, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 11% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.8%) is left out: Unadilla’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, Unadilla could be anywhere from D− to C.
How far it is to work from Unadilla
About 39% 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.
Unadilla’s commute takes about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Unadilla workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 778 commuters (the 5% 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.
How many people are in Unadilla by day
On a workday 430 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 166 people come in from elsewhere.
About 830 people are in Unadilla on a workday afternoon, 24% 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 2024, primary jobs.
13% of working residents work in Sidney
Where Unadilla clocks in
7% 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.
What Unadilla’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Unadilla, 2014 → 2024: 219 → 173. 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 Unadilla’s own residents hold wherever they work.
For most of Unadilla, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Unadilla is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 15.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 822 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). 7.9% of Unadilla households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 5% of Unadilla’s commuters take a bus or train.
Unadilla next to U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500: 2,938th of 3,771 on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 2% | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,936 | Moreland ID | 1,326 | $61K | 19.7% | 0.0% | 2% | D |
| 2,937 | Elmore AL | 1,382 | $49K | 40.3% | 2.0% | 1% | D |
| 2,938 | Unadilla NY | 1,091 | $66K | 17.6% | 4.8% | 2% | D |
| 2,939 | Ranchester WY | 1,170 | $69K | 16.8% | 1.5% | 4% | D |
| 2,940 | Speaker Township MI | 1,330 | $54K | 11.1% | 12.2% | 2% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Unadilla, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Work next door: 13% of Unadilla’s workers
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Sidney. Darker towns draw more of Unadilla’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 Unadilla: questions
What is the median household income in Unadilla?
$65,972 (±$11,929) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Unadilla?
17.6%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Unadilla?
23 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Unadilla work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sidney (13%, 2 mi), Oneonta (7%, 13 mi), New York City (6%, 135 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Unadilla walkable?
Unadilla is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 15% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Unadilla without a car?
5% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Unadilla, from the people who make the trip.
More of Unadilla
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.