ECLC Commuter Flow Map

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NYSDOT's 2025 counts: all vehicles in both directions, not just these workers.

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Home ZIP	Jobs	Share	Earnings mix

Earnings mix covers all jobs from each area, whichever worker group is selected, because LODES doesn't cross-tabulate age and earnings. Lighter to darker: $1,250 a month or less, $1,251 to $3,333, more than $3,333.

About these numbers

Commuting data is LEHD LODES 2023 (all jobs, version 8), origin–destination main and auxiliary files. LODES counts jobs, so a person with two jobs counts twice. Home locations are partially synthetic, which is why results are summarized to ZIP, town and county.
Counts for a single block can be noisy, and a business's mapped location is not always the block where LODES records its jobs. If a workplace shows few jobs, try ¼ or ½ mile.
Large public employers can show workers living far away. Some of that reflects how payroll records are assigned to work sites rather than daily commutes.
Earnings bands are not adjusted for inflation; LODES uses the same dollar cutoffs every year.
Homes in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Vermont are placed by ZIP code, town and county with those states' LODES crosswalks. Homes in other states are listed by county.
Boundaries: 2020 TIGER/Line. New York's ZIP code areas, towns and counties are built from census blocks with the LODES crosswalk, so they match how jobs are counted; large lakes, rivers and coastal waters are removed. Neighboring states' areas are trimmed to land.
Employers: Data Axle business file. Search covers employers with 50 or more workers statewide, plus every business in the counties on screen once you zoom in.
Major roads: Interstates, other freeways and expressways, and principal arterials from NYSDOT's 2025 Average Annual Daily Traffic file, with ramps left out. Line width shows average daily traffic for all vehicles in both directions, including through traffic and trucks, so it is not a measure of these workers' commutes. About 47% of the 2025 values were counted that year; the rest are NYSDOT estimates from earlier counts, mostly 2023 and 2024. Hovering over a road says which. Principal arterials appear once the map is zoomed in to about the size of a county.
Child care: state-regulated programs from NYS OCFS (data.ny.gov) and New York City's day care centers and school-based programs from the NYC Health Department (NYC Open Data). Both are read live when the map runs on its own website; this preview uses saved copies. Programs whose address the state withholds can't be mapped. Capacity figures are licensed capacity, not openings, so the map shows locations and types only.