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Work & commute in Hailesboro · A commuter town

97% of Hailesboro’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Hailesboro for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Canton (16%), Fowler (10%) and Gouverneur (10%). Half commute less than 25 miles.

Work in town
3%
6 of 172 working residents
Typical commute
25 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
23 min
Less than NY (33 min)
Work from home
0%
Less than NY (15%)
Jobs based here
123
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Hailesboro?

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

★ What stands out · The commute map

16% of working residents work in Canton

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

Ogdensburg: 6 residents work here (3%)WatertownSyracuse: 3 residents work here (2%)PameliaDe Kalb: 8 residents work here (5%)Croghan: 6 residents work here (3%)Gouverneur: 17 residents work here (10%)Potsdam: 11 residents work here (6%)Russell: 6 residents work here (3%)Canton: 28 residents work here (16%)EdwardsFowler: 18 residents work here (10%)Diana: 4 residents work here (2%)PierrepontHailesboroCantonFowlerGouverneurPotsdamDe KalbOgdensburgHailesboro
1
Canton21.2 mi away
16%28
2
Fowler2.9 mi away
10%18
3
Gouverneur4.1 mi away
10%17
4
Potsdam32.2 mi away
6%11
5
De Kalb11.8 mi away
5%8
6
Ogdensburg28 mi away
3%6
7
Croghan24.3 mi away
3%6
8
Russell15.7 mi away
3%6
9
Diana14.4 mi away
2%4
10
Syracuse94.7 mi away
2%3
Everywhere elseother towns and states
38%65
The top trips

Where Hailesboro clocks in

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

Time on the road

About 23 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
177 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Hailesboro23 min
New York33 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
0%

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

About 0 in 10
Day and night

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 166 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 117 people come in from elsewhere.

166live here, work elsewhere
6live and work here
117work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night580
Workday530
580live here− 170head out to work+ 120come in to work= 530on a workday

About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.72jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

0.72 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 Hailesboro commutes less than 25 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 miCanton: 16% · 21.2 miFowler: 10% · 2.9 miGouverneur: 10% · 4.1 miPotsdam: 6% · 32.2 miDe Kalb: 5% · 11.8 miOgdensburg: 3% · 28 miCroghan: 3% · 24.3 miRussell: 3% · 15.7 miDiana: 2% · 14.4 miSyracuse: 2% · 94.7 miCanton 16%Fowler 10%Gouverneur 10%Potsdam 6%De Kalb 5%Hailesboro
HailesboroTop destinations (size = commuters)
23%Under 10 mi39 residents
28%10–24 mi49 residents
26%25–50 mi45 residents
23%Over 50 mi39 residents

About 23% 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 123 jobs in Hailesboro are

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

Jobs based in HailesboroJobs Hailesboro residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms7%20%
Trade, transport & utilities64%13%
Services: health, schools, offices29%67%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less23%13%
$1,251–$3,333 a month36%24%
Over $3,333 a month41%63%

Who does it

29 or younger27%21%
30 to 5448%52%
55 and older25%27%
−68%

Jobs based in Hailesboro, 2013 → 2023: 382 → 123. 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

20% of Hailesboro works in a bordering town

The biggest share goes to Gouverneur (10%). Darker towns draw more of Hailesboro’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

10%+5–9%2–4%1%Under 1%

Average commute minutes, one way

Hailesboro23 min
Gouverneur24 min
Fowler26 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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