Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel · CC BY 4.0How Weedsport works: jobs, income and commuting
Weedsport grades C for jobs and income and B for walkability. Only 5% work in Weedsport; the top destination outside it is Auburn (13%, 8 miles). Working residents average 28 minutes each way, next to 33 for New York and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Weedsport and work: the main findings
How Weedsport earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Weedsport is better than 34% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Weedsport’s grade up (ahead of 52% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (16.6%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (1.1%) is left out: Weedsport’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, Weedsport could be anywhere from C− to B+.
About 28 minutes each way, quicker than most of New York
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Weedsport workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 826 commuters (the 14% 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 daily flow of workers through Weedsport
On a workday 765 residents head out to work, 44 work right here, and 533 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Weedsport on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.71 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 2024, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Weedsport’s residents
Where Weedsport clocks in
13% of workers
12% of workers
8% 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 Weedsport’s employers do
577 jobs are based in Weedsport.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Weedsport, 2014 → 2024: 600 → 577. 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 Weedsport’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Weedsport
About 18% 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.
In Weedsport, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Weedsport is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 6.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 961 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). 13.9% of Weedsport households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Weedsport’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Weedsport ranks: 3,328th of 6,085 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,326 | Wiggins CO | 1,868 | $92K | 11.5% | 1.7% | 10% | C |
| 3,327 | Constantine MI | 1,983 | $73K | 13.3% | 7.3% | 8% | C |
| 3,328 | Weedsport NY | 1,760 | $71K | 16.6% | 1.1% | 5% | C |
| 3,329 | New Middletown OH | 1,486 | $50K | 12.3% | 4.0% | 2% | C |
| 3,330 | Plymouth OH | 1,702 | $74K | 13.8% | 6.1% | 1% | 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 Weedsport, 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 Weedsport: questions
What is the median household income in Weedsport?
$70,865 (±$13,365) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Weedsport?
16.6%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Weedsport?
28 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Weedsport work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Auburn (13%, 8 mi), Syracuse (12%, 21 mi), Brutus (8%, 1 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Weedsport walkable?
Weedsport is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Weedsport without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Weedsport, from the people who make the trip.
More of Weedsport
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.