Work & commute · Painted Post

Work & commute in Painted Post, NY

Most working residents leave Painted Post for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Corning (25%), Erwin (20%) and Corning (7%). Half commute less than 4 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

57 of 733 working residents

Typical commute

4 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

17 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

14%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 676 Painted Post residents head out of town to work, 57 work right here, and 1,195 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Painted Post.

676live here, work elsewhere

57live and work here

1,195work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Painted Post goes to work

Corning2.1 mi away

25%182

Erwin3 mi away

20%144

Corning4.1 mi away

7%50

Horseheads16.1 mi away

5%37

Big Flats9.3 mi away

4%26

Elmira15.3 mi away

3%22

Bath15.9 mi away

3%21

Campbell5.9 mi away

2%17

Rochester74.5 mi away

2%13

New York193.5 mi away

1%8

Everywhere elseother towns and states

29%213

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

How far

How far Painted Post commutes

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

56%

16%

23%

56%Under 10 mi

16%10–24 mi

6%25–50 mi

23%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Painted Post is a job hub

1.71jobs per working resident

A job hub

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Painted Post are

1,252 jobs are based in Painted Post. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Painted Post’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Painted Post

1,252 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)28%

Trade, transport & utilities1%

Services (health, schools, offices…)70%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month22%

Over $3,333 a month65%

Jobs Painted Post residents hold

733 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)15%

Trade, transport & utilities19%

Services (health, schools, offices…)66%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month61%

−16%

Jobs based in Painted Post, 2013 → 2023: 1,494 → 1,252. 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.