96% of Weston Mills’s working residents leave town for work
Most working residents leave Weston Mills for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Olean (26%), Allegany (10%) and Portville (8%). Half commute less than 9 miles.
Work and commuting in Weston Mills, in brief
Commutes from Weston Mills are quick
The average trip to work takes 16 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 130 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
A lot of Weston Mills works one town over
31% of working residents work in a town that borders Weston Mills: Olean (26%) and Olean (5%). Next door ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Weston Mills than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Weston Mills fell from 872 in 2013 to 506 in 2023, −42%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 654 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
About 16 minutes each way, quicker 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 5.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Weston Mills workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
31% of Weston Mills works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Olean (26%). Darker towns draw more of Weston Mills’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
Weston Mills makes things: 46% of its jobs are in goods
506 jobs are based in Weston Mills. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Weston Mills’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Weston Mills, 2013 → 2023: 872 → 506. 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.
Weston Mills quiets down on a workday
On a workday 629 residents head out to work, 25 work right here, and 481 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Weston Mills on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.77 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 Olean
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Weston Mills clocks in
26% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Half of Weston Mills commutes less than 9 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 28% 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.
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 Weston Mills
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Weston Mills, from the people who make the trip.
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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.