Work & commute · Menands

Work & commute in Menands, NY

Most working residents leave Menands for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Albany (39%), Colonie (18%) and New York (5%). Half commute less than 4 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

78 of 2,124 working residents

Typical commute

4 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

18%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 2,046 Menands residents head out of town to work, 78 work right here, and 4,186 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Menands.

2,046live here, work elsewhere

78live and work here

4,186work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Menands goes to work

Albany4 mi away

39%838

Colonie4.6 mi away

18%383

New York140.5 mi away

5%108

Troy4.1 mi away

3%61

East Greenbush6.1 mi away

3%61

Bethlehem8.9 mi away

2%48

Schenectady12.8 mi away

2%46

Guilderland12 mi away

2%45

Clifton Park12.6 mi away

1%30

Schodack11.2 mi away

1%26

Everywhere elseother towns and states

23%478

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

How far

How far Menands commutes

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

71%

16%

71%Under 10 mi

9%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

16%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Menands is a job hub

2.01jobs per working resident

A job hub

2.0 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Menands are

4,264 jobs are based in Menands. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Menands’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Menands

4,264 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)68%

$1,250 a month or less6%

$1,251–$3,333 a month14%

Over $3,333 a month80%

Jobs Menands residents hold

2,124 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)7%

Trade, transport & utilities13%

Services (health, schools, offices…)80%

$1,250 a month or less11%

$1,251–$3,333 a month17%

Over $3,333 a month72%

+18%

Jobs based in Menands, 2013 → 2023: 3,601 → 4,264. 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.