96% of Ronkonkoma’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave Ronkonkoma for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Islip (26%), New York (19%) and Brookhaven (15%). Half commute less than 11 miles.
What kind of work town is Ronkonkoma?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
51% of Ronkonkoma works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Islip (26%). Darker towns draw more of Ronkonkoma’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
Ronkonkoma makes things: 28% of its jobs are in goods
14,114 jobs are based in Ronkonkoma. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Ronkonkoma’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ronkonkoma, 2013 → 2023: 15,015 → 14,114. 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.
Ronkonkoma fills up on a workday
On a workday 9,119 residents head out to work, 373 work right here, and 13,741 people come in from elsewhere.
About 23,000 people are in Ronkonkoma on a workday afternoon, 25% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.49 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
26% of working residents work in Islip
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Ronkonkoma clocks in
26% of workers
19% of workers
15% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Half of Ronkonkoma commutes less than 11 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.
About 32 minutes each way, about the NY average
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ronkonkoma workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
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 Ronkonkoma
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ronkonkoma, 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.