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Work & commute · McGraw

Work & commute in McGraw, NY

Most working residents leave McGraw for work: only 3% work in town. The top destinations are Cortlandville (22%), Cortland (20%) and Ithaca (4%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times
Work in town
3%
12 of 427 working residents
Typical commute
13 mi
Half commute less than this, straight-line
Average commute time
19 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 415 McGraw residents head out of town to work, 12 work right here, and 247 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in McGraw.

415live here, work elsewhere
12live and work here
247work here, live elsewhere
Leave for workStayCome in
The map

Where McGraw goes to work

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1
Cortlandville1.2 mi away
22%96
2
Cortland4.2 mi away
20%85
3
Ithaca23.1 mi away
4%16
4
Dryden15.7 mi away
4%16
5
Lansing22.2 mi away
3%13
6
Syracuse31 mi away
3%12
7
Ithaca25.7 mi away
3%12
8
New York173.9 mi away
2%9
9
Binghamton35.4 mi away
2%7
10
Homer6 mi away
2%7
Everywhere elseother towns and states
36%154

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

How far

How far McGraw commutes

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

46%Under 10 mi
20%10–24 mi
14%25–50 mi
20%Over 50 mi
Job hub or commuter town?

McGraw is a commuter town

0.61jobs per working resident
A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in McGraw are

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

Jobs based in McGraw

259 jobs
Goods (factories, building, farms)30%
Trade, transport & utilities8%
Services (health, schools, offices…)62%
$1,250 a month or less11%
$1,251–$3,333 a month36%
Over $3,333 a month53%

Jobs McGraw residents hold

427 working residents
Goods (factories, building, farms)17%
Trade, transport & utilities16%
Services (health, schools, offices…)67%
$1,250 a month or less15%
$1,251–$3,333 a month28%
Over $3,333 a month57%
+41%

Jobs based in McGraw, 2013 → 2023: 184 → 259. 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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