Work & commute · Montour

Work & commute in Montour, NY

Most working residents leave Montour for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Dix (12%), Horseheads (9%) and Ithaca (7%). Half commute less than 17 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

68 of 849 working residents

Typical commute

17 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

18 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 781 Montour residents head out of town to work, 68 work right here, and 570 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Montour.

781live here, work elsewhere

68live and work here

570work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Montour goes to work

Dix3.7 mi away

12%98

Horseheads12.8 mi away

9%77

Montour (in town)right here

8%68

Ithaca15.5 mi away

7%63

Elmira17.1 mi away

6%47

Ithaca18 mi away

5%45

Catharine4.7 mi away

4%30

Lansing21.7 mi away

2%21

Hector8.5 mi away

2%20

Corning17.7 mi away

2%18

Everywhere elseother towns and states

43%362

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

How far

How far Montour commutes

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

28%

46%

18%

28%Under 10 mi

46%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Montour is balanced between jobs and homes

0.75jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.75 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Montour are

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

Jobs based in Montour

638 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)27%

Trade, transport & utilities11%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month51%

Jobs Montour residents hold

849 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)19%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)63%

$1,250 a month or less12%

$1,251–$3,333 a month31%

Over $3,333 a month57%

+10%

Jobs based in Montour, 2013 → 2023: 579 → 638. 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.