91% of Cutchogue’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave Cutchogue for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Southold (33%), New York (16%) and Brookhaven (7%). Half commute less than 28 miles.
Work and commuting in Cutchogue, in brief
Cutchogue’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Cutchogue is New York, 80 miles away as the crow flies. 16% of working residents (226) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Cutchogue makes and builds things
40% of the jobs based in Cutchogue are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Cutchogue residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 16%. The jobs ↓
A lot of Cutchogue works from home
23% of Cutchogue workers work from home, against 15% across New York. Time on the road ↓
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.
Half of Cutchogue commutes less than 28 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 29% 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.
Cutchogue makes things: 40% of its jobs are in goods
1,066 jobs are based in Cutchogue. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cutchogue’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cutchogue, 2013 → 2023: 957 → 1,066. 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.
About 31 minutes each way, about the NY average
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cutchogue workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Cutchogue quiets down on a workday
On a workday 1,318 residents head out to work, 124 work right here, and 942 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,500 people are in Cutchogue on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.74 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.
33% of working residents work in Southold
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Cutchogue clocks in
33% of workers
16% of workers
7% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Cutchogue and the towns next door
Darker towns draw more of Cutchogue’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
- Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
More of Cutchogue
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cutchogue, from the people who make the trip.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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.