Work & commute · Orleans

Work & commute in Orleans, NY

Most working residents leave Orleans for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Watertown (20%), Clayton (16%) and Alexandria (6%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

46 of 942 working residents

Typical commute

15 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 896 Orleans residents head out of town to work, 46 work right here, and 520 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Orleans.

896live here, work elsewhere

46live and work here

520work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Orleans goes to work

Watertown17.5 mi away

20%188

Clayton6.3 mi away

16%147

Alexandria7.6 mi away

6%58

Watertown20.2 mi away

5%48

Orleans (in town)right here

5%46

Pamelia11.8 mi away

5%44

Le Ray12.8 mi away

3%31

Philadelphia13.6 mi away

3%26

Syracuse82.3 mi away

2%20

New York266.6 mi away

2%16

Everywhere elseother towns and states

34%318

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

How far

How far Orleans commutes

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

29%

42%

25%

29%Under 10 mi

42%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

25%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Orleans is a commuter town

0.60jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Orleans are

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

Jobs based in Orleans

566 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)37%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)39%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month26%

Over $3,333 a month64%

Jobs Orleans residents hold

942 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month57%

+25%

Jobs based in Orleans, 2013 → 2023: 454 → 566. 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.