Work & commute · Hastings

Work & commute in Hastings, NY

Most working residents leave Hastings for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Syracuse (17%), DeWitt (11%) and Cicero (8%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

389 of 4,284 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

31 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 3,895 Hastings residents head out of town to work, 389 work right here, and 1,683 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Hastings.

3,895live here, work elsewhere

389live and work here

1,683work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Hastings goes to work

Syracuse19.3 mi away

17%711

DeWitt18.9 mi away

11%474

Hastings (in town)right here

9%389

Cicero11.5 mi away

8%335

Clay10 mi away

7%309

Salina14.9 mi away

5%209

Oswego19.8 mi away

3%121

New York216.1 mi away

3%111

Fulton13.2 mi away

2%91

Lysander14.4 mi away

2%80

Everywhere elseother towns and states

34%1,454

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

How far

How far Hastings commutes

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

18%

60%

17%

18%Under 10 mi

60%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Hastings is a commuter town

0.48jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Hastings are

2,072 jobs are based in Hastings. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Hastings’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Hastings

2,072 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)9%

Trade, transport & utilities33%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month49%

Jobs Hastings residents hold

4,284 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)58%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month65%

+2%

Jobs based in Hastings, 2013 → 2023: 2,039 → 2,072. 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.