88% of Phelps’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave Phelps for work: only 12% work in town. The top destinations are Manchester (9%), Arcadia (7%) and Rochester (7%). Half commute less than 13 miles.
The short version on getting to work from Phelps
Commutes from Phelps are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 92 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Phelps makes and builds things
44% of the jobs based in Phelps are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Phelps residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 26%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
About 21 minutes each way, quicker than most of New York
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Phelps workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Phelps makes things: 44% of its jobs are in goods
1,688 jobs are based in Phelps. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Phelps’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Phelps, 2013 → 2023: 1,807 → 1,688. 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.
Phelps quiets down on a workday
On a workday 2,806 residents head out to work, 373 work right here, and 1,315 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,100 people are in Phelps on a workday afternoon, 23% fewer than live here.
0.53 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.
9% of working residents work in Manchester
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Phelps clocks in
7% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Half of Phelps commutes less than 13 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Phelps and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Hopewell (4%). Darker towns draw more of Phelps’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
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.
More of Phelps
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Phelps, from the people who make the trip.
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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.