Every workday, about 770 people come to Scotts Corners for work
Most working residents leave Scotts Corners for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are New York (37%), Pound Ridge (9%) and Stamford (5%). Half commute less than 27 miles.
What kind of work town is Scotts Corners?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
Scotts Corners nearly doubles on a workday
On a workday 244 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 768 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Scotts Corners on a workday afternoon, 73% more than live here.
3.0 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 43 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 13.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Scotts Corners workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
What the 781 jobs in Scotts Corners are
781 jobs are based in Scotts Corners. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Scotts Corners’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Scotts Corners, 2013 → 2023: 322 → 781. 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.
Where Scotts Corners’s workers come from
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Scotts Corners clocks in
37% of workers
9% of workers
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Half of Scotts Corners commutes less than 27 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.
Scotts Corners and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Pound Ridge (9%). Darker towns draw more of Scotts Corners’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
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 Scotts Corners
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Scotts Corners, from the people who make the trip.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
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.