Germania Wine Cellars · Photo: Pubdog · Public domainJobs and earnings in Urbana, and the trip to work
A typical one-way commute lasts 22 minutes, where New York has 33 and the U.S. 26. Jobs and income earn Urbana C+; getting around on foot earns it B. Urbana has 1,000 jobs, against 759 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Urbana and work: the main findings
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Urbana
On income, poverty and job access, Urbana is better than 38% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Urbana’s grade up (8.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 14% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (2.8%) is left out: Urbana’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, Urbana could be anywhere from C− to B.
A commute of about 22 minutes in Urbana
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Urbana workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 672 commuters (the 18% 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.
Who works in Urbana, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 589 residents head out to work, 170 work right here, and 830 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,300 people are in Urbana on a workday afternoon, 12% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.32 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.
11% of working residents work in Bath
Where Urbana clocks in
11% 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 kinds of work in Urbana
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Urbana, 2014 → 2024: 912 → 1,000. 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 Urbana’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Urbana’s workers travel
About 25% 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.
For most of Urbana, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Urbana is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 6.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 824 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). 2.8% of Urbana households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Urbana’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Urbana ranks: 3,114th of 5,793 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,800
| # | 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 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| 9 | Village of the Branch NY | 1,764 | $174K | 1.5% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,112 | Brockway PA | 2,213 | $57K | 11.7% | 2.8% | 14% | C+ |
| 3,113 | Lincoln NH | 1,664 | $71K | 6.2% | 2.9% | 37% | C+ |
| 3,114 | Urbana NY | 2,048 | $77K | 8.4% | 2.8% | 22% | C+ |
| 3,115 | Caneadea NY | 2,217 | $83K | 16.3% | 8.4% | 13% | C+ |
| 3,116 | Brady Township OH | 2,579 | $73K | 8.9% | 5.8% | 9% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,793 | 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 Urbana, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Bordering towns draw 11% of Urbana’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Urbana workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urbana | – | C+ | B | 22 min | $76,845 |
| Wheeler | under 2% | D | C− | 32 min | $59,688 |
| Bath | 11% | D | B− | 21 min | $49,557 |
| Wayne | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Pulteney | under 2% | C | C+ | 26 min | $68,906 |
| Bradford | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Prattsburgh | under 2% | C+ | B− | 28 min | $77,135 |
Same-state neighbors only. Wayne: not graded. Bradford: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Bath. Darker towns draw more of Urbana’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 Urbana: questions
What is the median household income in Urbana?
$76,845 (±$7,883) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Urbana?
8.4%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Urbana?
22 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Urbana work?
22% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bath (11%, 8 mi), Corning (6%, 20 mi), Milo (3%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Urbana walkable?
Urbana is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Urbana without a car?
0% 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 Urbana, from the people who make the trip.
More of Urbana
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.