Photo: HYDROCHOERVS · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Williamstown commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers, where New York as a whole has 15%. 147 jobs are based in Williamstown for 516 working residents. Williamstown grades D for jobs and income and C for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Williamstown, in a few figures
Williamstown’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Williamstown is Syracuse, 31 miles away as the crow flies. 10% of working residents (54) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Williamstown is a place people come home to
There are 147 jobs based in Williamstown, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Williamstown has about 990 people in it, 27% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A longer commute than the towns next door
Williamstown averages 36 minutes each way, more than any bordering town (27 to 33 minutes). Next door ↓
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 516 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Williamstown
On income, poverty and job access, Williamstown is better than 9% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Williamstown’s grade up ($62,170, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down.
Unemployment (4.6%) is left out: Williamstown’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, Williamstown could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Miles to work from Williamstown
About 20% 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.
How a workday changes Williamstown
On a workday 502 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 133 people come in from elsewhere.
About 990 people are in Williamstown on a workday afternoon, 27% 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 2023, primary jobs.
10% of working residents work in Syracuse
Where Williamstown clocks in
10% of workers
5% 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.
Goods, not services: 56% of the jobs in Williamstown
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Williamstown, 2013 → 2023: 241 → 147. 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 Williamstown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 36 minutes to work from Williamstown
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Williamstown workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 521 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.
The commute in Williamstown is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Williamstown is more walkable than 33% 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 4.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 549 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). 2.5% of Williamstown households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Williamstown’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800, Williamstown comes 4,503rd 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% | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,501 | Edinburg VA | 1,225 | $57K | 21.1% | 9.1% | 5% | D |
| 4,502 | Ten Lake Township MN | 1,092 | $71K | 24.1% | 10.9% | 2% | D |
| 4,503 | Williamstown NY | 1,356 | $62K | 16.7% | 4.6% | 3% | D |
| 4,504 | LeChee AZ | 1,307 | $62K | 15.1% | 3.3% | 0% | D |
| 4,505 | Andrews FL | 1,275 | $53K | 13.6% | 0.0% | 2% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Williamstown, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Williamstown and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Williamstown workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Williamstown | – | D | C | 36 min | $62,170 |
| Amboy | under 4% | D | D | 31 min | $65,234 |
| Albion | under 4% | C− | D− | 27 min | $60,313 |
| Orwell | under 4% | D | D− | 33 min | $69,375 |
| Redfield | under 4% | — | — | 33 min | — |
| Florence | under 4% | — | — | 32 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Redfield: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Florence: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Williamstown’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 Williamstown: questions
What is the median household income in Williamstown?
$62,170 (±$13,442) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Williamstown?
16.7%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Williamstown?
36 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 Williamstown work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Syracuse (10%, 31 mi), Richland (7%, 15 mi), Cicero (5%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Williamstown walkable?
Williamstown is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Williamstown without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Williamstown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Williamstown
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.