Photo: N-Lange.de · CC BY-SA 3.0Jobs and earnings in Bergen, and the trip to work
The two grades for Bergen are B for jobs and income and B for walkability. Home is the office for 7% of workers; New York has 15%. About one in ten stay in Bergen for work; outside it, Rochester is the main destination (13%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Bergen
Commutes from Bergen 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 ↓
Bergen has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Bergen went from 570 in 2014 to 1,021 in 2024, +79%. The jobs ↓
Bergen makes and builds things
53% of the jobs based in Bergen are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Bergen residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 25%. The jobs ↓
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.
Jobs & income in Bergen: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Bergen is better than 57% of U.S. towns, #362 of 758 in New York. Job access by car holds Bergen’s grade up (ahead of 69% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (10.3%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bergen could be anywhere from C to A.
About 21 minutes to work from Bergen
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bergen workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,567 commuters (the 7% 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.
Bergen makes things: 53% of its jobs are in goods
1,021 jobs are based in Bergen.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bergen, 2014 → 2024: 570 → 1,021. 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 Bergen’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in Bergen, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,226 residents head out to work, 133 work right here, and 888 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,800 people are in Bergen on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.75 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where Bergen goes to work
Where Bergen clocks in
13% of workers
6% of workers
5% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Bergen
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.
Most trips from Bergen start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bergen is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns, #438 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,677 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). 3.0% of Bergen households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Bergen’s commuters take a bus or train.
Bergen places 1,872nd of 4,562 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 2,200 to 4,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | East Williston NY | 2,616 | $215K | 2.3% | 1.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 9 | Lloyd Harbor NY | 3,587 | $250K | 2.1% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 45 | Great Neck Estates NY | 3,139 | $238K | 5.7% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,870 | Hebron OH | 2,405 | $67K | 8.9% | 4.4% | 5% | B |
| 1,871 | Silver Creek Township MI | 3,041 | $81K | 8.1% | 3.0% | 5% | B |
| 1,872 | Bergen NY | 3,120 | $75K | 10.3% | 4.2% | 10% | B |
| 1,873 | Fairfield Township OH | 3,653 | $73K | 7.0% | 2.1% | 6% | B |
| 1,874 | Reed Creek GA | 3,151 | $77K | 9.4% | 0.9% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,562 | 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 Bergen, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Next door to Bergen
The biggest share goes to Byron (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bergen workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bergen | – | B | B | 21 min | $75,327 |
| Riga | under 4% | A | D | 24 min | $100,750 |
| Byron | 3% | B+ | C− | 25 min | $99,063 |
| Sweden | 3% | B | A+ | 21 min | $75,711 |
| Le Roy | under 4% | B+ | C+ | 26 min | $72,978 |
| Ogden | under 4% | A | B− | 20 min | $91,563 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bergen’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 Bergen: questions
What is the median household income in Bergen?
$75,327 (±$7,625) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bergen?
10.3%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bergen?
21 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bergen work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rochester (13%, 18 mi), Batavia (6%, 13 mi), Henrietta (5%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Bergen walkable?
Bergen is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bergen without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bergen, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bergen
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.