Photo: Tyler A. McNeil · CC BY 4.0Austerlitz has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
For jobs and income Austerlitz is better than 70% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns (B−). Austerlitz has 152 jobs; 546 of its residents have a job. Measured by household income, Austerlitz is ahead of 85% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Austerlitz
Commutes from Austerlitz are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 92 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Austerlitz is a place people come home to
There are 152 jobs based in Austerlitz, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Austerlitz has about 1,200 people in it, 25% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Home offices are common in Austerlitz
31% of Austerlitz workers work from home, against 15% across New York. 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 546 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Austerlitz’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Austerlitz’s grade up (3.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 12% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (4.2%) is left out: Austerlitz’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, Austerlitz could be anywhere from B− to A−.
A commute of about 21 minutes in Austerlitz
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Austerlitz workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 598 commuters (the 30% 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.
Austerlitz quiets down on a workday
On a workday 509 residents head out to work, 37 work right here, and 115 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Austerlitz 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.
9% of working residents work in Ghent
Where Austerlitz clocks in
8% of workers
7% 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.
66% of the jobs in Austerlitz pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Austerlitz, 2013 → 2023: 201 → 152. 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 Austerlitz’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Austerlitz
About 26% 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.
Most trips from Austerlitz start in a car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 860 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). 3.6% of Austerlitz households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Austerlitz’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Austerlitz is 1,074th among 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 5 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,072 | Unionville TN | 1,275 | $71K | 1.4% | 0.0% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,073 | Barrackville WV | 1,196 | $79K | 4.1% | 3.7% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,074 | Austerlitz NY | 1,556 | $113K | 3.0% | 4.2% | 7% | B+ |
| 1,075 | Watertown Township OH | 1,472 | $103K | 1.5% | 0.0% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,076 | Huston Township PA | 1,236 | $109K | 4.3% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Austerlitz, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Bordering towns draw 13% of Austerlitz’s workers
The biggest share goes to Ghent (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Austerlitz workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austerlitz | – | B+ | B− | 21 min | $113,021 |
| Ghent | 9% | C+ | B+ | 27 min | $82,092 |
| Canaan | under 3% | B+ | B | 31 min | $107,313 |
| Hillsdale | under 3% | C | B | 19 min | $76,700 |
| Chatham | 4% | B | B | 28 min | $107,270 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Austerlitz’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 Austerlitz: questions
What is the median household income in Austerlitz?
$113,021 (±$40,898) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Austerlitz?
3.0%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Austerlitz?
21 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 30% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Austerlitz work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ghent (9%, 7 mi), New York City (8%, 116 mi), Albany (7%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Austerlitz walkable?
Austerlitz is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Austerlitz without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Austerlitz, from the people who make the trip.
More of Austerlitz
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.