Every workday, about 240 people come to Pottersville for work
Most working residents leave Pottersville for work: only 8% work in town. The top destinations are Chester (17%), Glens Falls (9%) and Queensbury (7%). Half commute less than 31 miles.
What kind of work town is Pottersville?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
17% of Pottersville works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Chester (17%). Darker towns draw more of Pottersville’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
Pottersville nearly doubles on a workday
On a workday 141 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 235 people come in from elsewhere.
About 230 people are in Pottersville on a workday afternoon, 67% more than live here.
1.6 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.
About 42 minutes each way, longer 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 13.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pottersville workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Where Pottersville’s workers come from
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Pottersville clocks in
17% of workers
9% of workers
7% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Half of Pottersville commutes less than 31 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 36% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
248 jobs are based in Pottersville. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Pottersville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pottersville, 2013 → 2023: 25 → 248. 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.
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 Pottersville
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pottersville, 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.