Work & commute · Yonkers

Work & commute in Yonkers, NY

Most working residents leave Yonkers for work: only 18% work in town. The top destinations are New York (46%), Greenburgh (5%) and White Plains (3%). Half commute less than 10 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

18%

14,254 of 80,989 working residents

Typical commute

10 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

36 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 66,735 Yonkers residents head out of town to work, 14,254 work right here, and 37,231 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Yonkers.

66,735live here, work elsewhere

14,254live and work here

37,231work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Yonkers goes to work

New York19.9 mi away

46%37,287

Yonkers (in town)right here

18%14,254

Greenburgh5.9 mi away

5%3,685

White Plains8.1 mi away

3%2,576

Mount Pleasant11.8 mi away

2%1,671

Eastchester2.9 mi away

2%1,436

New Rochelle4.9 mi away

2%1,339

Mount Vernon3 mi away

2%1,320

North Hempstead13.9 mi away

1%998

Hempstead25.4 mi away

1%891

Everywhere elseother towns and states

19%15,532

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

How far

How far Yonkers commutes

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

50%

41%

50%Under 10 mi

41%10–24 mi

5%25–50 mi

4%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Yonkers is a commuter town

0.64jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in Yonkers are

51,485 jobs are based in Yonkers. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Yonkers’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Yonkers

51,485 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)13%

Trade, transport & utilities26%

Services (health, schools, offices…)61%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month29%

Over $3,333 a month58%

Jobs Yonkers residents hold

80,989 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)8%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)75%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month66%

+4%

Jobs based in Yonkers, 2013 → 2023: 49,607 → 51,485. 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.