96% of Lake Mohegan’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave Lake Mohegan for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are New York (29%), Yorktown (12%) and Cortlandt (5%). Half commute less than 22 miles.
What kind of work town is Lake Mohegan?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
What the 2,186 jobs in Lake Mohegan are
2,186 jobs are based in Lake Mohegan. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lake Mohegan’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lake Mohegan, 2013 → 2023: 1,432 → 2,186. 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.
29% of working residents work in New York
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Lake Mohegan clocks in
29% of workers
12% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
17% of Lake Mohegan works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Yorktown (12%). Darker towns draw more of Lake Mohegan’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
About 40 minutes each way, longer than most of New York
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lake Mohegan workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Lake Mohegan quiets down on a workday
On a workday 2,631 residents head out to work, 123 work right here, and 2,063 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,900 people are in Lake Mohegan on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.79 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Half of Lake Mohegan commutes less than 22 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
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 Lake Mohegan
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lake Mohegan, 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.