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Work & commute · Little Falls

Work & commute in Little Falls, NY

Most working residents leave Little Falls for work: only 18% work in town. The top destinations are Herkimer (9%), Utica (9%) and New Hartford (5%). Half commute less than 21 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
18%
353 of 1,923 working residents
Typical commute
21 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
22 min
One way, from the Census survey
Work from home
12%
of workers, from the Census survey
Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,570 Little Falls residents head out of town to work, 353 work right here, and 1,440 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Little Falls.

1,570live here, work elsewhere
353live and work here
1,440work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where Little Falls goes to work

Little FallsUticaSyracuseNew YorkRomeManheimFrankfortSalisburyStarkLittle FallsHerkimerGerman FlattsDanubeDuanesburgNew HartfordHerkimerUticaNew HartfordNew YorkGerman FlattsSyracuseLittle FallsRomeDuanesburgLittle Falls
1
Little Falls (in town)right here
18%353
2
Herkimer7.5 mi away
9%180
3
Utica19 mi away
9%179
4
New Hartford21.5 mi away
5%105
5
New York171.2 mi away
3%61
6
German Flatts7.1 mi away
3%53
7
Syracuse65 mi away
2%45
8
Little Falls2.7 mi away
2%45
9
Rome34.3 mi away
2%40
10
Duanesburg39.2 mi away
2%39
Everywhere elseother towns and states
43%823

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.

36%Under 10 mi
24%10–24 mi
14%25–50 mi
26%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

Little Falls is balanced between jobs and homes

0.93jobs per working resident
Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.93 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Little Falls are

1,793 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

1,793 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)24%
Trade, transport & utilities18%
Services (health, schools, offices…)58%
$1,250 a month or less16%
$1,251–$3,333 a month29%
Over $3,333 a month55%

Jobs Little Falls residents hold

1,923 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)15%
Trade, transport & utilities21%
Services (health, schools, offices…)64%
$1,250 a month or less17%
$1,251–$3,333 a month28%
Over $3,333 a month56%
+10%

Jobs based in Little Falls, 2013 → 2023: 1,630 → 1,793. 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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