Work & commute · Butternuts

Work & commute in Butternuts, NY

Most working residents leave Butternuts for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Oneonta (7%), Oneonta (6%) and Morris (5%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

41 of 576 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

11%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 535 Butternuts residents head out of town to work, 41 work right here, and 192 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Butternuts.

535live here, work elsewhere

41live and work here

192work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Butternuts goes to work

Oneonta11.7 mi away

7%42

Butternuts (in town)right here

7%41

Oneonta13 mi away

6%34

Morris5.8 mi away

5%28

New Berlin7.5 mi away

5%27

New York143.8 mi away

5%26

Norwich8.9 mi away

5%26

Otsego27 mi away

4%24

Norwich11.2 mi away

4%23

Albany78.7 mi away

4%21

Everywhere elseother towns and states

49%284

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Butternuts commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

20%

36%

15%

28%

20%Under 10 mi

36%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

28%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Butternuts is a commuter town

0.40jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.40 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Butternuts are

233 jobs are based in Butternuts. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Butternuts’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Butternuts

233 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities3%

Services (health, schools, offices…)85%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs Butternuts residents hold

576 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities16%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month61%

+6%

Jobs based in Butternuts, 2013 → 2023: 220 → 233. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.