Photo: Benson Lossing · Public domainBeekmantown has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Employers in Beekmantown report 1,081 jobs for 2,435 working residents. Beekmantown grades B− for jobs and income and D for walkability. 3% of workers work from home, next to 15% for New York as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Beekmantown, in brief
Commutes from Beekmantown 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 ↓
Few Beekmantown workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 15% across New York. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Most Beekmantown residents work close to home
62% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Beekmantown has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Beekmantown went from 762 in 2014 to 1,081 in 2024, +42%. The jobs ↓
28% of Beekmantown works in Plattsburgh
688 working residents, 28%, have their main job in Plattsburgh, 7 miles away. That’s 3 times as many as work in Beekmantown itself. The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Beekmantown’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Beekmantown is better than 51% of U.S. towns, #404 of 758 in New York. Unemployment holds Beekmantown’s grade up (2.4%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 23% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Beekmantown could be anywhere from C to B+.
About 22 minutes each way for Beekmantown’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Beekmantown workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,396 commuters (the 3% 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 far it is to work from Beekmantown
About 21% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
The kinds of work in Beekmantown
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Beekmantown, 2014 → 2024: 762 → 1,081. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Beekmantown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
28% of working residents work in Plattsburgh
Where Beekmantown clocks in
28% of workers
23% of workers
2% 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.
Beekmantown on a workday afternoon
On a workday 2,211 residents head out to work, 224 work right here, and 857 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,000 people are in Beekmantown 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 2024, primary jobs.
In Beekmantown, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Beekmantown is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns, #738 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 3.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,469 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). 1.8% of Beekmantown households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Beekmantown’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Beekmantown is 1,890th of 3,541 U.S. towns of 3,800 to 7,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Lawrence NY | 6,847 | $170K | 3.5% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 16 | Irvington NY | 6,533 | $173K | 1.6% | 2.1% | 5% | A+ |
| 17 | Kings Point NY | 5,710 | $211K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,888 | Mulvane KS | 7,030 | $74K | 8.5% | 6.0% | 9% | B− |
| 1,889 | Paris ME | 5,409 | $75K | 12.5% | 1.5% | 17% | B− |
| 1,890 | Beekmantown NY | 5,396 | $87K | 12.8% | 2.4% | 9% | B− |
| 1,891 | Sterling AK | 6,323 | $102K | 4.6% | 5.0% | — | B− |
| 1,892 | Kenneth City FL | 4,868 | $49K | 13.8% | 2.8% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,541 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Beekmantown, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
27% of Beekmantown works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Plattsburgh (23%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Beekmantown workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beekmantown | – | B− | D | 22 min | $87,162 |
| Plattsburgh | 23% | B− | B− | 19 min | $71,546 |
| Chazy | 2% | B− | C+ | 21 min | $95,648 |
| Dannemora | 2% | C | B− | 21 min | $77,829 |
| Altona | under 1% | D− | D− | 27 min | $51,367 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Beekmantown’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 2024, 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 Beekmantown: questions
What is the median household income in Beekmantown?
$87,162 (±$11,182) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Beekmantown?
12.8%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Beekmantown?
22 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Beekmantown work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Plattsburgh (28%, 7 mi), Plattsburgh (23%, 7 mi), Chazy (2%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Beekmantown walkable?
Beekmantown is more walkable than 7% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Beekmantown without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Beekmantown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Beekmantown
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.