Photo: dougtone (Doug Kerr) · CC BY-SA 2.0Most of Ancram commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Jobs and income earn Ancram B−; getting around on foot earns it B. Employers in Ancram report 255 jobs, against 604 working residents. Measured by household income, Ancram is ahead of 77% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Ancram, in a few figures
Ancram’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Ancram is New York City, 97 miles away as the crow flies. 10% of working residents (58) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A longer commute than the towns next door
Ancram averages 35 minutes each way, more than any bordering town (24 to 32 minutes). Next door ↓
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 604 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Ancram’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Ancram is better than 46% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Ancram’s grade up ($99,773, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 12% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (3.5%) is left out: Ancram’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Ancram could be anywhere from C to B+.
Half of Ancram commutes less than 19 miles
About 25% 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.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
How a workday changes Ancram
On a workday 538 residents head out to work, 66 work right here, and 189 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Ancram on a workday afternoon, 25% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
10% of working residents work in New York City
Where Ancram clocks in
10% of workers
8% of workers
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
62% of the jobs in Ancram make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ancram, 2013 → 2023: 278 → 255. 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.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Ancram’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 35 minutes to work from Ancram
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ancram workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 504 commuters (the 20% who work from home are left out). Across New York: 57% drive alone, 25% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
For most of Ancram, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ancram is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 9.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 631 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.7% of Ancram households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 5% of Ancram’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,286th of 5,877: where Ancram ranks among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Saddle Rock NY | 1,008 | $176K | 0.8% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,284 | Prospect OH | 1,056 | $71K | 11.5% | 5.9% | 1% | B− |
| 2,285 | Clay Township IN | 1,295 | $71K | 6.7% | 1.1% | 3% | B− |
| 2,286 | Ancram NY | 1,413 | $100K | 9.3% | 3.5% | 11% | B− |
| 2,287 | Jackson Township OH | 1,147 | $81K | 13.3% | 10.0% | 1% | B− |
| 2,288 | Dimock Township PA | 1,224 | $88K | 8.2% | 7.9% | 3% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Ancram, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
The towns next door employ 16% of Ancram
The biggest share goes to North East (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ancram workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ancram | – | B− | B | 35 min | $99,773 |
| Gallatin | under 2% | B− | C+ | 30 min | $89,412 |
| North East | 8% | B− | A− | 24 min | $84,757 |
| Copake | 4% | C | B+ | 32 min | $113,611 |
| Pine Plains | 4% | B− | B+ | 27 min | $102,109 |
| Taghkanic | under 2% | B | B− | 25 min | $86,250 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Ancram’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Ancram: questions
What is the median household income in Ancram?
$99,773 (±$22,252) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ancram?
9.3%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ancram?
35 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ancram work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (10%, 97 mi), North East (8%, 6 mi), Pine Plains (4%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ancram walkable?
Ancram is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ancram without a car?
5% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ancram, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ancram
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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.