Work & commute · Sloan

Work & commute in Sloan, NY

Most working residents leave Sloan for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Buffalo (27%), Cheektowaga (18%) and Amherst (12%). Half commute less than 5 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

42 of 1,690 working residents

Typical commute

5 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

19 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

17%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 1,648 Sloan residents head out of town to work, 42 work right here, and 400 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sloan.

1,648live here, work elsewhere

42live and work here

400work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sloan goes to work

Buffalo3.4 mi away

27%462

Cheektowaga2.8 mi away

18%301

Amherst8.4 mi away

12%202

Lancaster8.2 mi away

7%116

West Seneca4.3 mi away

5%80

Tonawanda7.6 mi away

4%73

Hamburg11.1 mi away

3%50

Orchard Park10 mi away

3%46

New York293.6 mi away

2%29

Clarence11.8 mi away

1%24

Everywhere elseother towns and states

18%307

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

How far

How far Sloan commutes

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

79%

11%

79%Under 10 mi

9%10–24 mi

1%25–50 mi

11%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sloan is a commuter town

0.26jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.26 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Sloan are

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

Jobs based in Sloan

442 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)14%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less27%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month41%

Jobs Sloan residents hold

1,690 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)16%

Trade, transport & utilities25%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month28%

Over $3,333 a month57%

−10%

Jobs based in Sloan, 2013 → 2023: 491 → 442. 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.