Photo: The original uploader was Daniel Case at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Blooming Grove works elsewhere
About one in ten work in Blooming Grove; the top destination outside it is New York City (23%, 52 miles). Employers in Blooming Grove report 3,916 jobs; 7,793 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Blooming Grove B−; getting around on foot earns it A−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Blooming Grove at work: what stands out
Blooming Grove’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Blooming Grove is New York City, 52 miles away as the crow flies. 23% of working residents (1,795) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Blooming Grove workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 46 minutes each way, against 33 across New York. Over a year that’s about 353 hours of commuting, 100 more than the state’s typical worker. Every town next door averages less (31 to 43 minutes). Time on the road ↓
Blooming Grove has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Blooming Grove went from 2,451 in 2014 to 3,916 in 2024, +60%. 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.
Income, poverty and work: Blooming Grove’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Blooming Grove is better than 47% of U.S. towns, #432 of 758 in New York. Household income holds Blooming Grove’s grade up ($95,967, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (6.8%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Blooming Grove could be anywhere from C to B.
The commute from Blooming Grove, by distance
About 16% 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.
About 46 minutes each way, longer than most of New York
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 14.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Blooming Grove workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 6,727 commuters (the 13% 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.
What Blooming Grove’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Blooming Grove, 2014 → 2024: 2,451 → 3,916. 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 Blooming Grove’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily flow of workers through Blooming Grove
On a workday 7,160 residents head out to work, 633 work right here, and 3,283 people come in from elsewhere.
About 15,000 people are in Blooming Grove on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
Commuting out of Blooming Grove: the destinations
Where Blooming Grove clocks in
23% of workers
4% of workers
4% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Blooming Grove
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Blooming Grove is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns, #274 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 15.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 7.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 7,773 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 20% 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). 3.3% of Blooming Grove households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 14% of Blooming Grove’s commuters take a bus or train.
Blooming Grove next to U.S. towns of 13,000 to 25,000: 1,276th of 1,915 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Floral Park NY | 16,105 | $150K | 3.0% | 3.1% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 77 | Garden City NY | 23,043 | $244K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 86 | Victor NY | 16,422 | $116K | 2.8% | 1.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,274 | Durango CO | 19,733 | $79K | 13.0% | 3.1% | 62% | B− |
| 1,275 | Jackson Township IN | 23,633 | $62K | 15.0% | 2.2% | 38% | B− |
| 1,276 | Blooming Grove NY | 18,418 | $96K | 13.8% | 6.8% | 8% | B− |
| 1,277 | Bostonia CA | 16,765 | $79K | 13.6% | 7.9% | 2% | B− |
| 1,278 | Liberty Triangle FL | 24,888 | $65K | 8.6% | 4.2% | 4% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,915 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 28% | 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 Blooming Grove, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Blooming Grove and its neighbors: 12% work next door
The biggest share goes to Goshen (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Blooming Grove workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blooming Grove | – | B− | A− | 46 min | $95,967 |
| Woodbury | under 3% | B+ | B+ | 43 min | $121,221 |
| Woodbury | 2% | — | — | 41 min | — |
| Monroe | 3% | B+ | A | 36 min | $112,199 |
| Chester | under 3% | A | A− | 42 min | $139,778 |
| Cornwall | under 3% | A− | A− | 31 min | $114,635 |
| South Blooming Grove | under 3% | C− | C+ | 40 min | $62,316 |
| New Windsor | 3% | B | A− | 37 min | $95,071 |
| Goshen | 4% | B+ | A | 37 min | $121,442 |
| Hamptonburgh | under 3% | A− | B | 38 min | $122,250 |
Same-state neighbors only. Woodbury: the same community as the village of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Blooming Grove’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 Blooming Grove: questions
What is the median household income in Blooming Grove?
$95,967 (±$12,232) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Blooming Grove?
13.8%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Blooming Grove?
46 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Blooming Grove work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (23%, 52 mi), Palm Tree (4%, 4 mi), Ramapo (4%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Blooming Grove walkable?
Blooming Grove is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 15% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Blooming Grove without a car?
14% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Blooming Grove, from the people who make the trip.
More of Blooming Grove
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.