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Work & commute in Frewsburg · A commuter town

93% of Frewsburg’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Frewsburg for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Jamestown (24%), Ellicott (16%) and Carroll (9%). Half commute less than 7 miles.

Work in town
7%
51 of 725 working residents
Typical commute
7 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
20 min
Less than NY (33 min)
Work from home
0%
Less than NY (15%)
Jobs based here
470
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Frewsburg?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Time on the road

About 20 minutes each way, quicker than most of New York

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

A year of commuting
153 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Frewsburg20 min
New York33 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
0%

of Frewsburg workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.

About 0 in 10
The commute map

24% of working residents work in Jamestown

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

Jamestown: 177 residents work here (24%)Buffalo: 23 residents work here (3%)Warren: 16 residents work here (2%)Ellery: 10 residents work here (1%)Chautauqua: 27 residents work here (4%)Carroll: 68 residents work here (9%)Ellicott: 118 residents work here (16%)EllingtonPolandAmherst: 19 residents work here (3%)Busti: 48 residents work here (7%)Kiantone: 22 residents work here (3%)RandolphPine GroveFrewsburgJamestownEllicottCarrollBustiChautauquaBuffaloFrewsburg
1
Jamestown6 mi away
24%177
2
Ellicott7.5 mi away
16%118
3
Carroll2.1 mi away
9%68
4
Busti9.9 mi away
7%48
5
Chautauqua23 mi away
4%27
6
Buffalo59.5 mi away
3%23
7
Kiantone3.6 mi away
3%22
8
Amherst68.8 mi away
3%19
9
Warren, PA14.7 mi away
2%16
10
Ellery14.6 mi away
1%10
Everywhere elseother towns and states
27%197
The top trips

Where Frewsburg clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

Day and night

Frewsburg quiets down on a workday

On a workday 674 residents head out to work, 51 work right here, and 419 people come in from elsewhere.

674live here, work elsewhere
51live and work here
419work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night1,800
Workday1,500
1,800live here− 670head out to work+ 420come in to work= 1,500on a workday

About 1,500 people are in Frewsburg on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.65jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

0.65 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.

How far

Half of Frewsburg commutes less than 7 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi50 mi80 miJamestown: 24% · 6 miEllicott: 16% · 7.5 miCarroll: 9% · 2.1 miBusti: 7% · 9.9 miChautauqua: 4% · 23 miBuffalo: 3% · 59.5 miKiantone: 3% · 3.6 miAmherst: 3% · 68.8 miWarren: 2% · 14.7 miEllery: 1% · 14.6 miJamestown 24%Ellicott 16%Carroll 9%Busti 7%Chautauqua 4%Frewsburg
FrewsburgTop destinations (size = commuters)
59%Under 10 mi429 residents
15%10–24 mi107 residents
6%25–50 mi45 residents
20%Over 50 mi144 residents

About 20% 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.

The jobs

What the 470 jobs in Frewsburg are

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

Jobs based in FrewsburgJobs Frewsburg residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms9%25%
Trade, transport & utilities22%14%
Services: health, schools, offices69%61%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less18%13%
$1,251–$3,333 a month33%26%
Over $3,333 a month49%62%

Who does it

29 or younger16%18%
30 to 5452%51%
55 and older32%30%
+9%

Jobs based in Frewsburg, 2013 → 2023: 432 → 470. 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.

Next door

12% of Frewsburg works in a bordering town

The biggest share goes to Carroll (9%). Darker towns draw more of Frewsburg’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

10%+5–9%2–4%1%Under 1%

Average commute minutes, one way

Frewsburg20 min
Carroll20 min
Kiantone20 min
How to read these numbers

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.
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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.

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