Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Bainbridge are lower than in 76% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 11.4% of residents, next to 14.0% across New York. Bainbridge grades C− for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. About one in ten stay in Bainbridge for work; outside it, Sidney is the main destination (15%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Bainbridge
Commutes from Bainbridge are quick
The average trip to work takes 22 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 84 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Bainbridge than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Bainbridge fell from 665 in 2013 to 463 in 2023, −30%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
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 517 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Bainbridge’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Bainbridge is better than 16% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Bainbridge’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 9% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.9%) is left out: Bainbridge’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, Bainbridge could be anywhere from D to C.
Time on the road from Bainbridge: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bainbridge workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 500 commuters (the 10% 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.
Inside Bainbridge’s 463 jobs
463 jobs are based in Bainbridge.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bainbridge, 2013 → 2023: 665 → 463. 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 Bainbridge’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Bainbridge by day
On a workday 475 residents head out to work, 42 work right here, and 421 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.90 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Bainbridge goes to work
Where Bainbridge clocks in
10% of workers
6% 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.
How far it is to work from Bainbridge
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.
Bainbridge is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bainbridge is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 6.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 558 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). 7.3% of Bainbridge households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bainbridge’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Bainbridge is 3,614th among 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,612 | Berino NM | 1,454 | $40K | 17.1% | 7.8% | 0% | C− |
| 3,613 | Stromsburg NE | 1,159 | $59K | 12.2% | 0.2% | 11% | C− |
| 3,614 | Bainbridge NY | 1,248 | $58K | 11.4% | 5.9% | 8% | C− |
| 3,615 | East Spencer NC | 1,650 | $34K | 26.7% | 12.8% | 2% | C− |
| 3,616 | Greybull WY | 1,700 | $65K | 12.0% | 2.2% | 25% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Bainbridge, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
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 Bainbridge: questions
What is the median household income in Bainbridge?
$58,452 (±$8,695) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bainbridge?
11.4%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bainbridge?
22 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bainbridge work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sidney (15%, 10 mi), Bainbridge (10%, 0 mi), Greene (6%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bainbridge walkable?
Bainbridge is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bainbridge without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bainbridge, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bainbridge
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.