Work & commute · DeRuyter

Work & commute in DeRuyter, NY

Most working residents leave DeRuyter for work: only 6% work in town. The top destinations are Hamilton (10%), Syracuse (9%) and DeWitt (4%). Half commute less than 22 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

33 of 543 working residents

Typical commute

22 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 510 DeRuyter residents head out of town to work, 33 work right here, and 257 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in DeRuyter.

510live here, work elsewhere

33live and work here

257work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where DeRuyter goes to work

Hamilton18.2 mi away

10%54

Syracuse24 mi away

9%47

DeRuyter (in town)right here

6%33

DeWitt22.7 mi away

4%23

Cazenovia10.1 mi away

4%21

Cortlandville17.9 mi away

3%16

Lebanon11.2 mi away

3%16

New York175.7 mi away

2%12

Norwich25.6 mi away

2%12

Cortland20.5 mi away

2%11

Everywhere elseother towns and states

55%298

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

How far

How far DeRuyter commutes

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

11%

50%

23%

16%

11%Under 10 mi

50%10–24 mi

23%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

DeRuyter is a commuter town

0.53jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in DeRuyter are

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

Jobs based in DeRuyter

290 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)71%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month50%

Jobs DeRuyter residents hold

543 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)20%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month61%

+18%

Jobs based in DeRuyter, 2013 → 2023: 245 → 290. 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.