Jackson-Aitken Farm · Photo: Vonsky87 · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Andes works elsewhere
Employers in Andes report 155 jobs, against 403 working residents. The two grades for Andes are C− for jobs and income and B for walkability. Only 7% stay in Andes for work; outside it, Delhi is the main destination (19%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Andes
A lot of Andes works one town over
34% of working residents work in a town that borders Andes: Delhi (19%), Hamden (8%) and Middletown (5%). Next door ↓
A big share show a job far from home
34% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
Commutes from Andes are quick
The average trip to work takes 26 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
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 403 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Andes
On income, poverty and job access, Andes is better than 21% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Andes’ grade up ($75,000, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (9.4%) is left out: Andes’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Andes could be anywhere from D− to B−.
Half of Andes commutes less than 22 miles
About 34% 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.
From Andes, about 26 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Andes workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 395 commuters (the 21% 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.
How many people are in Andes by day
On a workday 373 residents head out to work, 30 work right here, and 125 people come in from elsewhere.
About 850 people are in Andes on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
Commuting out of Andes: the destinations
Where Andes clocks in
19% of workers
9% 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.
Jobs in Andes: what the 155 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Andes, 2013 → 2023: 169 → 155. 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 Andes’s own residents hold wherever they work.
For most of Andes, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Andes is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 15.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 4.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 503 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.5% of Andes households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Andes’ commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, Andes ranks 2,493rd of 3,771 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,491 | Rudyard Township MI | 1,290 | $64K | 9.2% | 2.7% | 5% | C− |
| 2,492 | Highland Township MI | 1,190 | $77K | 14.7% | 2.4% | 2% | C− |
| 2,493 | Andes NY | 1,099 | $75K | 12.0% | 9.4% | 7% | C− |
| 2,494 | Angelica NY | 1,277 | $60K | 8.8% | 3.3% | 4% | C− |
| 2,495 | Madison Township PA | 1,133 | $68K | 12.1% | 3.6% | 2% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Andes, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
34% of Andes works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Andes workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andes | – | C− | B | 26 min | $75,000 |
| Middletown | 5% | B− | C+ | 30 min | $78,021 |
| Bovina | under 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Colchester | 2% | C− | C+ | 33 min | $67,222 |
| Hamden | 8% | C− | C+ | 24 min | $64,457 |
| Hardenburgh | under 2% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Delhi | 19% | C− | A− | 15 min | $63,043 |
Same-state neighbors only. Bovina and Hardenburgh: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Delhi. Darker towns draw more of Andes’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 Andes: questions
What is the median household income in Andes?
$75,000 (±$28,915) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Andes?
12.0%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Andes?
26 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 22% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Andes work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Delhi (19%, 12 mi), New York City (9%, 110 mi), Hamden (8%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Andes walkable?
Andes is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 16% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Andes without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Andes, from the people who make the trip.
More of Andes
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.