Black River Canal Warehouse · Photo: Agreen54 · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Boonville trail those of 61% of U.S. towns
Boonville grades C for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Below the poverty line: 11.8% of residents; New York has 14.0%. About one in five stay in Boonville for work; outside it, Utica is the main destination (9%, 25 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Boonville: the figures worth knowing
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Boonville
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Boonville is better than 29% of U.S. towns, #586 of 758 in New York. Unemployment holds Boonville’s grade up (4.6%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 19% of U.S. towns).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Boonville could be anywhere from D to B.
Short hops and long hauls from Boonville
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.
How many people are in Boonville by day
On a workday 1,433 residents head out to work, 367 work right here, and 1,070 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 (0.80 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.
Commuting out of Boonville: the destinations
Where Boonville clocks in
9% 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.
What the 1,437 jobs in Boonville are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Boonville, 2013 → 2023: 1,222 → 1,437. 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 Boonville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 29 minutes from Boonville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Boonville workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,976 commuters (the 9% 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.
Most of Boonville commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Boonville is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns, #565 of 758 in New York. Both inputs place Boonville near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,164 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% 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). 8.7% of Boonville households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Boonville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 3,100 to 6,000, Boonville ranks 2,928th of 4,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Lloyd Harbor NY | 3,587 | $250K | 2.1% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 18 | Kings Point NY | 5,710 | $211K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | North Hills NY | 5,481 | $173K | 3.0% | 1.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,926 | Emporia VA | 5,447 | $52K | 15.8% | 2.9% | 26% | C |
| 2,927 | Prairie du Chien WI | 5,408 | $54K | 17.4% | 2.1% | 42% | C |
| 2,928 | Boonville NY | 4,411 | $68K | 11.8% | 4.6% | 20% | C |
| 2,929 | High Point FL | 3,548 | $49K | 7.9% | 6.5% | 7% | C |
| 2,930 | Olio Township IL | 4,627 | $56K | 11.6% | 6.7% | 16% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,000 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Boonville, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Work in the towns next to Boonville
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Boonville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boonville | – | C | C+ | 29 min | $68,253 |
| Forestport | under 3% | B− | D | 31 min | $72,813 |
| Ava | under 3% | — | — | 33 min | — |
| Steuben | under 3% | C− | D− | 28 min | $66,181 |
| Lyonsdale | under 3% | C− | C | 24 min | $61,806 |
| Remsen | under 3% | C | D | 32 min | $71,438 |
| Leyden | under 3% | D | B− | 26 min | $59,474 |
| Western | under 3% | B− | D | 25 min | $88,964 |
Same-state neighbors only. Ava: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Boonville’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 Boonville: questions
What is the median household income in Boonville?
$68,253 (±$13,740) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Boonville?
11.8%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Boonville?
29 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Boonville work?
20% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Utica (9%, 25 mi), Rome (7%, 19 mi), Lowville (4%, 27 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Boonville walkable?
Boonville is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.6 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Boonville without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Boonville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Boonville
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.