W.H. Dorrance House · Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · Public domainCamden’s household incomes are lower than in 70% of U.S. towns
About one in four work in Camden itself; outside it, Rome draws the most (9%, 16 miles). The poverty rate is 7.9%, where New York as a whole has 14.0%. Camden grades C+ for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Camden stands out on work
The figures behind Camden’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Camden is better than 38% of U.S. towns, #511 of 758 in New York. Unemployment holds Camden’s grade up (3.4%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 13% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Camden could be anywhere from D to B+.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 1,462 residents head out to work, 500 work right here, and 1,188 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 (0.86 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 Camden goes to work
Where Camden clocks in
9% of workers
5% 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.
Inside Camden’s 1,688 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Camden, 2013 → 2023: 1,725 → 1,688. 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 Camden’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 29 minutes each way, quicker than most of New York
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Camden workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,885 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.
The commute from Camden, by distance
About 19% 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.
In Camden, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Camden is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns, #484 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 6.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,097 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). 7.9% of Camden households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Camden’s commuters take a bus or train.
Camden places 2,451st of 3,798 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 3,300 to 6,300
| # | 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 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 10 | Lloyd Harbor NY | 3,587 | $250K | 2.1% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Kings Point NY | 5,710 | $211K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | North Hills NY | 5,481 | $173K | 3.0% | 1.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,449 | Greene NY | 5,021 | $73K | 10.6% | 4.5% | 23% | C+ |
| 2,450 | Otsego NY | 3,621 | $73K | 6.9% | 5.6% | 40% | C+ |
| 2,451 | Camden NY | 4,655 | $62K | 7.9% | 3.4% | 25% | C+ |
| 2,452 | Washington Township OH | 4,240 | $76K | 13.0% | 5.2% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,453 | Denair CA | 4,914 | $99K | 18.8% | 8.1% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,798 | 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 Camden, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
The towns around Camden
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Camden workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camden | – | C+ | B− | 29 min | $62,394 |
| Vienna | under 2% | C+ | C+ | 28 min | $83,244 |
| Florence | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Annsville | under 2% | C− | D− | 29 min | $66,812 |
| Amboy | under 2% | D | D | 31 min | $65,234 |
| Constantia | under 2% | D | D | 37 min | $69,792 |
Same-state neighbors only. Florence: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Camden’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 Camden: questions
What is the median household income in Camden?
$62,394 (±$17,534) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Camden?
7.9%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Camden?
29 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 Camden work?
25% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Rome (9%, 16 mi), Utica (5%, 32 mi), Syracuse (5%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Camden walkable?
Camden is more walkable than 54% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Camden without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Camden, from the people who make the trip.
More of Camden
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.