Yonkers

City Commute Profile

Yonkers, NY

Where Yonkers’s 89,407 resident workers go each day — 17.5% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is New York.

New YorkLODES 2023 data
29
Commute Score

29 / 100

How short the typical commute is here, on an absolute 0–100 scale (higher is shorter). How it’s calculated.

Yonkers at a glance
Employed Residents
89,407
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
16.4mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
17.5%
Share working within the area
Work from home
11.6%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
New York
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Yonkers proper — the Census place within its city limits — not the surrounding metro area. Metro-wide totals you’ll see elsewhere are larger because they bundle in neighboring cities and suburbs.

How Yonkers commutes

Every dot is a worker moving between home and job. Trace where the area pulls people in from — and where its residents head each day.

Yonkers

89,407 commutes, one dot at a time

Yonkers

Where 89,407 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

Top destinations for people who live in Yonkers, by worker count.

1New York16.4 mi40,804
2Yonkers0.0 mi15,649
3White Plains7.8 mi2,870
4New Rochelle4.3 mi1,494
5Mount Vernon2.7 mi1,443
6Dobbs Ferry4.9 mi816
7Harrison8.7 mi788
8Eastchester3.2 mi783

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Yonkers.

1New York16.4 mi17,177
2Yonkers0.0 mi15,649
3Mount Vernon2.7 mi1,535
4New Rochelle4.3 mi1,005
5White Plains7.8 mi963
6Eastchester3.2 mi463
7Ossining15.4 mi319
8Port Chester11.2 mi297

Top industries

The sectors that employ Yonkers’s workforce. Each bar is scaled to that sector’s share of all local jobs — the top sectors shown don’t add up to 100%.

Bar length = each sector’s share of all local jobs (0–100%)
HCHealth Care and Social Assistance17.2%
RTRetail Trade16.6%
EDEducational Services10.7%
COConstruction9.2%
TRTransportation and Warehousing7.3%
AFAccommodation and Food Services6.6%
PAPublic Administration6.4%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services5.7%
REReal Estate and Rental and Leasing3.4%

Yonkers city profile

Who lives in Yonkers — population, housing, and income, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Population
209,978
Median age
39.9yrs
Median household income
$83,549
Median home value
$501,600
Median gross rent
$1,784/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
35.7%
Poverty rate
13.8%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 5-Year Estimates. Values shown as “—” are suppressed or unavailable for this place.

Connectivity

Internet options for Yonkers

The biggest home-internet providers in the area — tap any to compare local plans.

3 providers · 1 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps100%
5 Gbps100%
8 Gbps100%
See all internet providers in Yonkers

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