Work & commute · Lake Placid

Work & commute in Lake Placid, NY

About one in 4 of Lake Placid’s working residents works in town. The top destinations are North Elba (59%), Harrietstown (8%) and Plattsburgh (2%). Half commute less than 2 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

24%

251 of 1,039 working residents

Typical commute

2 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

18 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

21%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 788 Lake Placid residents head out of town to work, 251 work right here, and 1,256 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Lake Placid.

788live here, work elsewhere

251live and work here

1,256work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Lake Placid goes to work

North Elba6.1 mi away

59%612

Harrietstown11.8 mi away

8%81

Plattsburgh38.4 mi away

2%20

Albany112.2 mi away

2%18

Tupper Lake23.9 mi away

1%14

Malone36.8 mi away

1%13

Elizabethtown17.8 mi away

1%11

Wilmington7.7 mi away

1%10

Queensbury65.2 mi away

1%9

Brighton18.2 mi away

1%9

Everywhere elseother towns and states

23%242

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

How far

How far Lake Placid commutes

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

67%

20%

67%Under 10 mi

5%10–24 mi

8%25–50 mi

20%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Lake Placid is balanced between jobs and homes

1.45jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.45 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Lake Placid are

1,507 jobs are based in Lake Placid. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lake Placid’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Lake Placid

1,507 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)4%

Trade, transport & utilities14%

Services (health, schools, offices…)82%

$1,250 a month or less25%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month40%

Jobs Lake Placid residents hold

1,039 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)79%

$1,250 a month or less19%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month53%

−12%

Jobs based in Lake Placid, 2013 → 2023: 1,717 → 1,507. 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.