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Work & commute in Munsons Corners · A job hub

Every workday, about 1,800 people come to Munsons Corners for work

Most working residents leave Munsons Corners for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Cortland (18%), Cortlandville (14%) and Ithaca (6%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Work in town
5%
51 of 1,002 working residents
Typical commute
15 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
19 min
Less than NY (33 min)
Work from home
27%
More than NY (15%)
Jobs based here
1,891
A job hub

What kind of work town is Munsons Corners?

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

★ What stands out · 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

Munsons Corners19 min
New York33 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
27%

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

About 3 in 10
Next door

18% of Munsons Corners works in a bordering town

The biggest share goes to Cortland (18%). Darker towns draw more of Munsons Corners’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

10%+5–9%2–4%1%Under 1%

Average commute minutes, one way

Cortland17 min
Munsons Corners19 min
Cortland West31 min
The jobs

Munsons Corners makes things: 31% of its jobs are in goods

1,891 jobs are based in Munsons Corners. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Munsons Corners’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Munsons CornersJobs Munsons Corners residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms31%14%
Trade, transport & utilities36%15%
Services: health, schools, offices33%72%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less15%16%
$1,251–$3,333 a month35%21%
Over $3,333 a month50%63%

Who does it

29 or younger28%24%
30 to 5445%48%
55 and older27%28%
−1%

Jobs based in Munsons Corners, 2013 → 2023: 1,910 → 1,891. 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.

Day and night

Munsons Corners fills up on a workday

On a workday 951 residents head out to work, 51 work right here, and 1,840 people come in from elsewhere.

951live here, work elsewhere
51live and work here
1,840work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night2,700
Workday3,600
2,700live here− 950head out to work+ 1,800come in to work= 3,600on a workday

About 3,600 people are in Munsons Corners on a workday afternoon, 33% more than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
1.89jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

1.9 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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 commute map

Where Munsons Corners’s workers come from

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

Cortland: 259 workers live here (14%)IthacaBinghamtonSyracuse: 30 workers live here (2%)New YorkCortlandville: 172 workers live here (9%)Groton: 31 workers live here (2%)Lansing: 22 workers live here (1%)Dryden: 68 workers live here (4%)Homer: 97 workers live here (5%)Marathon: 23 workers live here (1%)Lisle: 24 workers live here (1%)Virgil: 36 workers live here (2%)IthacaMunsons CornersCortland WestCortlandCortlandvilleHomerDrydenVirgilGrotonMunsons Corners
1
Cortland2.2 mi away
14%259
2
Cortlandville4.8 mi away
9%172
3
Homer6.3 mi away
5%97
4
Dryden10.5 mi away
4%68
5
Virgil4.2 mi away
2%36
6
Groton8.1 mi away
2%31
7
Syracuse32.4 mi away
2%30
8
Lisle15.5 mi away
1%24
9
Marathon14.3 mi away
1%23
10
Lansing16.8 mi away
1%22
Everywhere elseother towns and states
60%1,129
The top trips

Where Munsons Corners clocks in

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

How far

Half of Munsons Corners commutes less than 15 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 miCortland: 18% · 2.2 miCortlandville: 14% · 4.8 miIthaca: 6% · 20.5 miDryden: 4% · 10.5 miHomer: 4% · 6.3 miIthaca: 4% · 17.8 miNew York: 3% · 176.4 miLansing: 3% · 16.8 miSyracuse: 3% · 32.4 miBinghamton: 2% · 35.9 miCortland 18%Cortlandville 14%Ithaca 6%Dryden 4%Homer 4%Munsons Corners
Munsons CornersTop destinations (size = commuters)
44%Under 10 mi436 residents
19%10–24 mi189 residents
16%25–50 mi164 residents
21%Over 50 mi212 residents

About 21% 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.

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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