Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Unemployment in Yates (1.3%) is lower than in 92% of U.S. towns
Household incomes here are higher than in 65% of U.S. towns. For jobs and income Yates is better than 45% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (C+). Working from home is the commute for 6% of workers, where New York as a whole has 15%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Yates
Commutes from Yates 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, and quicker than any town next door (25 to 32 minutes). Time on the road ↓
Yates makes and builds things
56% of the jobs based in Yates are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Yates residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 24%. 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.
Inside Yates’ Jobs & income grade
Unemployment holds Yates’ grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 11% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Yates could be anywhere from C to B.
A commute of about 21 minutes in Yates
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Yates workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,080 commuters (the 6% 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.
Goods jobs make up 56% of work in Yates
527 jobs are based in Yates.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Yates, 2013 → 2023: 446 → 527. 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 Yates’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Yates by day and by night
On a workday 951 residents head out to work, 126 work right here, and 401 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,000 people are in Yates on a workday afternoon, 22% fewer than live here.
0.49 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.
10% of working residents work in Ridgeway
Where Yates clocks in
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.
How far Yates’ workers travel
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.
In Yates, the car does most of the work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 3.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,149 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 13.7% of Yates households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Yates’ commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,868 U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,400, Yates comes 2,429th on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Old Brookville NY | 2,098 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | East Williston NY | 2,616 | $215K | 2.3% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 10 | Laurel Hollow NY | 1,949 | $250K | 3.5% | 2.2% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,427 | Nelson NY | 1,879 | $82K | 7.8% | 3.1% | 9% | B− |
| 2,428 | Fabius NY | 1,961 | $94K | 8.3% | 6.7% | 9% | B− |
| 2,429 | Yates NY | 2,520 | $87K | 18.8% | 1.3% | 12% | B− |
| 2,430 | Farmington Township OH | 2,928 | $63K | 16.6% | 2.0% | 5% | B− |
| 2,431 | Pinetop Country Club AZ | 2,054 | $80K | 5.7% | 5.9% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,868 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Yates, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Yates and its neighbors: 10% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Ridgeway. Darker towns draw more of Yates’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 Yates: questions
What is the median household income in Yates?
$87,337 (±$17,234) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Yates?
18.8%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Yates?
21 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Yates work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ridgeway (10%, 5 mi), Rochester (6%, 40 mi), Shelby (6%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Yates walkable?
Yates is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 3.9 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Yates without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Yates, from the people who make the trip.
More of Yates
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.