Buffalo

City Commute Profile

Buffalo, NY

Where Buffalo’s 103,772 resident workers go each day — 41.8% work within the area; the top destination beyond it is Cheektowaga.

New YorkLODES 2023 data
74
Commute Score

74 / 100

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

Buffalo at a glance
Employed Residents
103,772
Fewer than the city’s total population
Median home–work distance
6.1mi
Straight-line, not road distance
Work Locally
41.8%
Share working within the area
Work from home
11.3%
Residents who work from home (ACS)
Top destination outside city
Cheektowaga
Excludes local — most work in-city

These figures are for Buffalo 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 Buffalo 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.

Buffalo

103,772 commutes, one dot at a time

Buffalo

Where 103,772 workers commute

Each dot ≈ 75 workers

Where residents work

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

1Buffalo0.0 mi43,413
2Cheektowaga4.7 mi7,791
3Tonawanda Town5.5 mi4,065
4New York296.4 mi3,409
5West Seneca6.5 mi2,935
6University at Buffalo7.4 mi1,608
7Rochester65.3 mi1,263
8Depew7.5 mi1,150

Who commutes in

Top origin places for workers who travel into Buffalo.

1Buffalo0.0 mi43,413
2Cheektowaga4.7 mi9,565
3Tonawanda Town5.5 mi7,447
4West Seneca6.5 mi5,954
5Niagara Falls15.7 mi2,657
6Kenmore4.2 mi2,368
7Eggertsville4.8 mi2,145
8North Tonawanda9.4 mi2,121

Top industries

The sectors that employ Buffalo’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 Assistance20.9%
EDEducational Services10.6%
PTProfessional, Scientific, and Technical Services8.7%
PAPublic Administration7.8%
MFManufacturing7.4%
AFAccommodation and Food Services7.1%
FIFinance and Insurance5.7%
RTRetail Trade4.9%
ADAdministrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services4.5%

Buffalo city profile

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

Population
276,854
Median age
34.3yrs
Median household income
$50,041
Median home value
$164,200
Median gross rent
$1,046/mo
Bachelor’s degree or higher
31.2%
Poverty rate
26.0%

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 Buffalo

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

9 providers · 2 with fiber
Speed availabilityshare of homes a plan reaches
1 Gbps~all homes
2 Gbps36%
5 Gbps27%
8 Gbps27%
See all internet providers in Buffalo

FindBetterInternet is a CensusFlow partner site — we link out so you can compare local plans, and CensusFlow’s Census data stays independent. Provider data is from the FCC National Broadband Map (satellite + fixed wireless excluded).