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Work & commute in Morrisonville · A commuter town

98% of Morrisonville’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Morrisonville for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Plattsburgh (28%), Plattsburgh (28%) and Beekmantown (4%). Half commute less than 5 miles.

Work in town
2%
17 of 851 working residents
Typical commute
5 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
19 min
Less than NY (33 min)
Work from home
9%
Less than NY (15%)
Jobs based here
336
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Morrisonville?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The commute map

28% of working residents work in Plattsburgh

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

Plattsburgh: 242 residents work here (28%)Queensbury: 9 residents work here (1%)Plattsburgh: 242 residents work here (28%)North Elba: 9 residents work here (1%)Schuyler Falls: 15 residents work here (2%)Beekmantown: 30 residents work here (4%)Peru: 22 residents work here (3%)Colonie: 10 residents work here (1%)Dannemora: 30 residents work here (4%)Ellenburg: 16 residents work here (2%)ChamplainChazyMaloneSaranacMooersPlattsburgh WestMorrisonvillePlattsburghPlattsburghBeekmantownDannemoraPeruEllenburgMorrisonville
1
Plattsburgh4.8 mi away
28%242
2
Plattsburgh1.9 mi away
28%242
3
Beekmantown6.9 mi away
4%30
4
Dannemora13.9 mi away
4%30
5
Peru7.9 mi away
3%22
6
Ellenburg16.1 mi away
2%16
7
Schuyler Falls2.9 mi away
2%15
8
Colonie135.6 mi away
1%10
9
Queensbury91.9 mi away
1%9
10
North Elba41.6 mi away
1%9
Everywhere elseother towns and states
27%226
The top trips

Where Morrisonville clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

Time on the road

About 19 minutes each way, quicker than most of New York

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

A year of commuting
142 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.9 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Morrisonville19 min
New York33 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
9%

of Morrisonville workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.

About 1 in 10
Next door

30% of Morrisonville works in a bordering town

The biggest share goes to Plattsburgh (28%). Darker towns draw more of Morrisonville’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

10%+5–9%2–4%1%Under 1%

Average commute minutes, one way

Plattsburgh West14 min
Schuyler Falls16 min
Morrisonville19 min
Plattsburgh19 min
How far

Half of Morrisonville commutes less than 5 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi50 mi80 miPlattsburgh: 28% · 4.8 miPlattsburgh: 28% · 1.9 miBeekmantown: 4% · 6.9 miDannemora: 4% · 13.9 miPeru: 3% · 7.9 miEllenburg: 2% · 16.1 miSchuyler Falls: 2% · 2.9 miColonie: 1% · 135.6 miQueensbury: 1% · 91.9 miNorth Elba: 1% · 41.6 miPlattsburgh 28%Plattsburgh 28%Beekmantown 4%Dannemora 4%Peru 3%Morrisonville
MorrisonvilleTop destinations (size = commuters)
65%Under 10 mi554 residents
10%10–24 mi88 residents
5%25–50 mi46 residents
19%Over 50 mi161 residents

About 19% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.

Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.

Day and night

Morrisonville quiets down on a workday

On a workday 834 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 319 people come in from elsewhere.

834live here, work elsewhere
17live and work here
319work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night2,000
Workday1,400
2,000live here− 830head out to work+ 320come in to work= 1,400on a workday

About 1,400 people are in Morrisonville on a workday afternoon, 26% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.39jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

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

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.

The jobs

What the 336 jobs in Morrisonville are

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

Jobs based in MorrisonvilleJobs Morrisonville residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms5%14%
Trade, transport & utilities25%20%
Services: health, schools, offices70%65%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less14%13%
$1,251–$3,333 a month27%25%
Over $3,333 a month59%62%

Who does it

29 or younger26%19%
30 to 5451%51%
55 and older24%30%
+104%

Jobs based in Morrisonville, 2013 → 2023: 165 → 336. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
  • Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
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Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.

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