Work & commute · Portville

Work & commute in Portville, NY

Most working residents leave Portville for work: only 9% work in town. The top destinations are Olean (25%), Portville (15%) and Allegany (7%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

32 of 358 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

17 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 326 Portville residents head out of town to work, 32 work right here, and 449 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Portville.

326live here, work elsewhere

32live and work here

449work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Portville goes to work

Olean6 mi away

25%90

Portville2.1 mi away

15%53

Allegany10.7 mi away

7%24

Amherst70.7 mi away

3%12

Little Valley25.2 mi away

3%11

Buffalo64.8 mi away

3%9

Wellsville21.9 mi away

2%8

Olean4.8 mi away

2%8

Rochester86.4 mi away

2%6

Cuba12.8 mi away

2%6

Everywhere elseother towns and states

37%131

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

How far

How far Portville commutes

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

50%

13%

28%

50%Under 10 mi

13%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

28%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Portville is balanced between jobs and homes

1.34jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.34 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Portville are

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

Jobs based in Portville

481 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities8%

Services (health, schools, offices…)78%

$1,250 a month or less21%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month47%

Jobs Portville residents hold

358 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities18%

Services (health, schools, offices…)65%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month51%

−2%

Jobs based in Portville, 2013 → 2023: 491 → 481. 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.