Photo: AlleganyCounty · CC BY-SA 4.0Wellsville’s household incomes are lower than in 81% of U.S. towns
19.9% of residents live below the poverty line, where New York as a whole has 14.0%. For jobs and income Wellsville is better than 10% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (B). 4% of workers have no commute at all, where New York as a whole has 15%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Wellsville: the figures worth knowing
Commutes from Wellsville are quick
The average trip to work takes 15 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 138 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Wellsville and Wellsville trade workers both ways
Wellsville is the top workplace for Wellsville residents (35%) and also where the most people who work in Wellsville come from (23% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Wellsville is where the jobs are
Wellsville has 2,727 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Few Wellsville workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 15% across New York. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Wellsville than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Wellsville fell from 3,620 in 2014 to 2,727 in 2024, −25%. 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 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Jobs & income in Wellsville: the grade in detail
All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Wellsville’s grade.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Wellsville could be anywhere from D− to C.
About 15 minutes each way for Wellsville’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wellsville workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,809 commuters (the 4% 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 Wellsville’s workforce comes from
Where Wellsville clocks in
35% of workers
4% of workers
4% 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 a workday changes Wellsville
On a workday 1,295 residents head out to work, 413 work right here, and 2,314 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,500 people are in Wellsville on a workday afternoon, 23% more than live here.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Wellsville
2,727 jobs are based in Wellsville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wellsville, 2014 → 2024: 3,620 → 2,727. 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 Wellsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Wellsville
About 30% 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.
The commute in Wellsville is mostly behind the wheel
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,890 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). 16.2% of Wellsville households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Wellsville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Wellsville and other U.S. towns of 3,200 to 6,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Lloyd Harbor NY | 3,587 | $250K | 2.1% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Kings Point NY | 5,710 | $211K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | North Hills NY | 5,481 | $173K | 3.0% | 1.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,507 | Darlington SC | 6,075 | $34K | 30.2% | 7.1% | 14% | D |
| 3,508 | Sylvester GA | 5,430 | $58K | 27.9% | 6.1% | 19% | D |
| 3,509 | Wellsville NY | 4,504 | $55K | 19.9% | 6.0% | 24% | D |
| 3,510 | Warren Township OH | 5,554 | $53K | 23.0% | 5.2% | 24% | D |
| 3,511 | International Falls MN | 5,481 | $58K | 13.3% | 7.7% | 61% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,862 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Wellsville, 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 Wellsville: questions
What is the median household income in Wellsville?
$55,096 (±$11,357) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wellsville?
19.9%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wellsville?
15 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wellsville work?
24% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wellsville (35%, 1 mi), Amity (4%, 8 mi), Olean (4%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Wellsville walkable?
Wellsville is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wellsville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 16% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wellsville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wellsville
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.