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Work & commute in Little Falls, NY

Most working residents leave Little Falls for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Herkimer (11%), Little Falls (10%) and Utica (9%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
3%
18 of 596 working residents
Typical commute
19 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
26 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
4%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 578 Little Falls residents head out of town to work, 18 work right here, and 171 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Little Falls.

578live here, work elsewhere
18live and work here
171work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Little Falls goes to work

Little FallsJohnstownUticaSyracuseNew YorkManheimSalisburyStarkLittle FallsHerkimerOtsegoGerman FlattsDanubeFairfieldWinfieldNew HartfordHerkimerLittle FallsUticaGerman FlattsNew HartfordJohnstownOtsegoNew YorkSyracuseLittle Falls
1
Herkimer6.3 mi away
11%64
2
Little Falls2.7 mi away
10%62
3
Utica17.6 mi away
9%54
4
German Flatts4.5 mi away
5%32
5
New Hartford19.7 mi away
3%19
6
Little Falls (in town)right here
3%18
7
Johnstown26.3 mi away
3%16
8
Otsego18.2 mi away
3%15
9
New York170 mi away
2%14
10
Syracuse63.1 mi away
2%13
Everywhere elseother towns and states
48%289

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

How far

How far Little Falls commutes

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

34%Under 10 mi
26%10–24 mi
17%25–50 mi
23%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Little Falls is a commuter town

0.32jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Little Falls are

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

Jobs based in Little Falls

189 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)6%
Trade, transport & utilities4%
Services (health, schools, offices…)90%
$1,250 a month or less14%
$1,251–$3,333 a month28%
Over $3,333 a month58%

Jobs Little Falls residents hold

596 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)21%
Trade, transport & utilities20%
Services (health, schools, offices…)59%
$1,250 a month or less12%
$1,251–$3,333 a month26%
Over $3,333 a month62%
−19%

Jobs based in Little Falls, 2013 → 2023: 234 → 189. 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.

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