Work & commute · Catharine

Work & commute in Catharine, NY

Most working residents leave Catharine for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Dix (10%), Horseheads (9%) and Montour (9%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

20 of 538 working residents

Typical commute

16 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 518 Catharine residents head out of town to work, 20 work right here, and 195 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Catharine.

518live here, work elsewhere

20live and work here

195work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Catharine goes to work

Dix8.5 mi away

10%56

Horseheads12.7 mi away

9%46

Montour4.7 mi away

9%46

Ithaca11.2 mi away

8%41

Ithaca13.9 mi away

6%32

Elmira17.3 mi away

6%32

Catharine (in town)right here

4%20

Lansing18.8 mi away

4%19

Corning21.1 mi away

3%14

Rochester72.9 mi away

2%11

Everywhere elseother towns and states

41%221

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

How far

How far Catharine commutes

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

26%

47%

18%

26%Under 10 mi

47%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Catharine 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 Catharine are

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

Jobs based in Catharine

215 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities9%

Services (health, schools, offices…)86%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs Catharine residents hold

538 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)17%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less15%

$1,251–$3,333 a month30%

Over $3,333 a month55%

+8%

Jobs based in Catharine, 2013 → 2023: 200 → 215. 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.