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Work & commute in Sand Ridge · A commuter town

100% of Sand Ridge’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Sand Ridge for work: only 0% work in town. The top destinations are Syracuse (16%), Clay (12%) and DeWitt (10%). Half commute less than 14 miles.

Work in town
0%
1 of 461 working residents
Typical commute
14 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
20 min
Less than NY (33 min)
Work from home
3%
Less than NY (15%)
Jobs based here
14
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Sand Ridge?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · The commute map

16% of working residents work in Syracuse

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

Oswego: 9 residents work here (2%)AuburnSyracuse: 75 residents work here (16%)New York: 11 residents work here (2%)Geddes: 10 residents work here (2%)Salina: 36 residents work here (8%)Schroeppel: 28 residents work here (6%)West MonroeHastingsOrleansConstantiaManliusLysander: 19 residents work here (4%)Cicero: 35 residents work here (8%)Clay: 55 residents work here (12%)DeWitt: 45 residents work here (10%)Sand RidgeSyracuseClayDeWittSalinaCiceroSchroeppelSand Ridge
1
Syracuse15.4 mi away
16%75
2
Clay5.7 mi away
12%55
3
DeWitt16 mi away
10%45
4
Salina10.8 mi away
8%36
5
Cicero10.5 mi away
8%35
6
Schroeppel2.3 mi away
6%28
7
Lysander8.8 mi away
4%19
8
New York214.4 mi away
2%11
9
Geddes12.4 mi away
2%10
10
Oswego19.6 mi away
2%9
Everywhere elseother towns and states
30%138
The top trips

Where Sand Ridge clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

Time on the road

About 20 minutes each way, quicker than most of New York

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

A year of commuting
150 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Sand Ridge20 min
New York33 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
3%

of Sand Ridge workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.

About 0 in 10
Next door

18% of Sand Ridge works in a bordering town

The biggest share goes to Clay (12%). Darker towns draw more of Sand Ridge’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

10%+5–9%2–4%1%Under 1%

Average commute minutes, one way

Sand Ridge20 min
Clay21 min
Schroeppel23 min
Day and night

Sand Ridge quiets down on a workday

On a workday 460 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 13 people come in from elsewhere.

460live here, work elsewhere
1live and work here
13work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night840
Workday390
840live here− 460head out to work+ 13come in to work= 390on a workday

About 390 people are in Sand Ridge on a workday afternoon, 53% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.03jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

0.03 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.

How far

Half of Sand Ridge commutes less than 14 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi50 mi80 miSyracuse: 16% · 15.4 miClay: 12% · 5.7 miDeWitt: 10% · 16 miSalina: 8% · 10.8 miCicero: 8% · 10.5 miSchroeppel: 6% · 2.3 miLysander: 4% · 8.8 miNew York: 2% · 214.4 miGeddes: 2% · 12.4 miOswego: 2% · 19.6 miSyracuse 16%Clay 12%DeWitt 10%Cicero 8%Sand Ridge
Sand RidgeTop destinations (size = commuters)
31%Under 10 mi144 residents
48%10–24 mi221 residents
4%25–50 mi18 residents
17%Over 50 mi77 residents

About 17% 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.

The jobs

Sand Ridge makes things: 36% of its jobs are in goods

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

Jobs based in Sand RidgeJobs Sand Ridge residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms36%17%
Trade, transport & utilities14%22%
Services: health, schools, offices50%61%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less43%11%
$1,251–$3,333 a month36%22%
Over $3,333 a month21%67%

Who does it

29 or younger14%22%
30 to 5450%49%
55 and older36%29%
−67%

Jobs based in Sand Ridge, 2013 → 2023: 42 → 14. 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.

How to read these numbers

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.
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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.

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