Work & commute · Sylvan Beach

Work & commute in Sylvan Beach, NY

Most working residents leave Sylvan Beach for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Rome (11%), Syracuse (7%) and Vienna (7%). Half commute less than 19 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

16 of 329 working residents

Typical commute

19 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

29 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 313 Sylvan Beach residents head out of town to work, 16 work right here, and 172 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sylvan Beach.

313live here, work elsewhere

16live and work here

172work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sylvan Beach goes to work

Rome11.8 mi away

11%35

Syracuse24.1 mi away

7%24

Vienna3.3 mi away

7%24

Camden9.9 mi away

7%23

DeWitt20.6 mi away

7%22

Oneida9.7 mi away

5%17

Verona5.8 mi away

5%17

Utica26.1 mi away

3%10

Lenox6.8 mi away

3%10

Salina23.7 mi away

3%9

Everywhere elseother towns and states

42%138

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

How far

How far Sylvan Beach commutes

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

26%

46%

19%

26%Under 10 mi

46%10–24 mi

9%25–50 mi

19%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sylvan Beach is a commuter town

0.57jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Sylvan Beach are

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

Jobs based in Sylvan Beach

188 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)3%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)71%

$1,250 a month or less33%

$1,251–$3,333 a month37%

Over $3,333 a month30%

Jobs Sylvan Beach residents hold

329 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)18%

Trade, transport & utilities24%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month27%

Over $3,333 a month60%

+21%

Jobs based in Sylvan Beach, 2013 → 2023: 156 → 188. 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.