95% of Sunset Bay’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave Sunset Bay for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Hanover (26%), Pomfret (6%) and Amherst (5%). Half commute less than 13 miles.
What kind of work town is Sunset Bay?
Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.
Working from home in Sunset Bay
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
of Sunset Bay workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
26% of Sunset Bay works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Hanover (26%). Darker towns draw more of Sunset Bay’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Sunset Bay fills up on a workday
On a workday 130 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 198 people come in from elsewhere.
About 450 people are in Sunset Bay on a workday afternoon, 18% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.50 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 Hanover
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Sunset Bay clocks in
5% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Half of Sunset Bay commutes less than 13 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 15% 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
205 jobs are based in Sunset Bay. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Sunset Bay’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sunset Bay, 2013 → 2023: 576 → 205. 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 Sunset Bay
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sunset Bay, 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.