Work & commute · Cape Vincent

Work & commute in Cape Vincent, NY

Most working residents leave Cape Vincent for work: only 12% work in town. The top destinations are Cape Vincent (18%), Watertown (16%) and Clayton (15%). Half commute less than 23 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

12%

25 of 208 working residents

Typical commute

23 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 183 Cape Vincent residents head out of town to work, 25 work right here, and 283 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cape Vincent.

183live here, work elsewhere

25live and work here

283work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cape Vincent goes to work

Cape Vincent2.3 mi away

18%37

Watertown23.3 mi away

16%34

Clayton13.6 mi away

15%32

Utica89.9 mi away

2%5

Alexandria26.2 mi away

2%5

Watertown24.3 mi away

2%5

Brownville14 mi away

2%4

Orleans19.9 mi away

2%4

Ogdensburg59.5 mi away

1%3

Syracuse75.3 mi away

1%3

Everywhere elseother towns and states

37%76

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

How far

How far Cape Vincent commutes

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

18%

41%

32%

18%Under 10 mi

41%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

32%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cape Vincent is balanced between jobs and homes

1.48jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.48 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Cape Vincent are

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

Jobs based in Cape Vincent

308 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)1%

Trade, transport & utilities8%

Services (health, schools, offices…)91%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month13%

Over $3,333 a month75%

Jobs Cape Vincent residents hold

208 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)12%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month50%

−26%

Jobs based in Cape Vincent, 2013 → 2023: 415 → 308. 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.