Photo: Lvklock · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Venice earn more than those in 70% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Venice C+; getting around on foot earns it B. Poverty touches 11.2% of residents, next to 14.0% for New York as a whole. Only 8% work in Venice; the top destination outside it is Ithaca (9%, 21 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Venice, in brief
Commutes from Venice are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 92 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Venice than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Venice fell from 529 in 2013 to 394 in 2023, −26%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 545 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Venice’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Venice is better than 43% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Venice’s grade up ($92,000, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 22% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (6.0%) is left out: Venice’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, Venice could be anywhere from C− to B+.
The trip to work from Venice: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Venice workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 668 commuters (the 15% 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.
Venice makes things: 31% of its jobs are in goods
394 jobs are based in Venice.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Venice, 2013 → 2023: 529 → 394. 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 Venice’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Venice, and who commutes in
On a workday 502 residents head out to work, 43 work right here, and 351 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Venice on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.72 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 the trip to work from Venice ends
Where Venice clocks in
9% 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.
How far Venice goes to work
About 17% 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.
The commute in Venice is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Venice is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 14.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 4.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 784 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). 1.4% of Venice households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Venice’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,985th of 4,866: where Venice ranks among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,983 | Divernon Township IL | 1,399 | $77K | 14.2% | 4.6% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,984 | Columbia Township MI | 1,205 | $84K | 7.6% | 2.1% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,985 | Venice NY | 1,234 | $92K | 11.2% | 6.0% | 8% | C+ |
| 1,986 | Laketown WI | 1,047 | $83K | 7.3% | 2.4% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,987 | Robinhood MS | 1,298 | $70K | 14.1% | 5.1% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Venice, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Work next door: 16% of Venice’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Genoa. Darker towns draw more of Venice’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 Venice: questions
What is the median household income in Venice?
$92,000 (±$19,795) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Venice?
11.2%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Venice?
21 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Venice work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ithaca (9%, 21 mi), Genoa (8%, 5 mi), Lansing (8%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Venice walkable?
Venice is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 15% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Venice without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Venice, from the people who make the trip.
More of Venice
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.