Photo: Tyler A. McNeil · CC BY-SA 4.0Carlisle has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
7% of workers have no commute at all, where New York as a whole has 15%. 39 jobs are based in Carlisle, against 565 working residents. Carlisle grades C+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Carlisle
How Carlisle earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Carlisle is better than 39% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Carlisle’s grade up ($86,971, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 11% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (5.0%) is left out: Carlisle’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Carlisle could be anywhere from C− to B.
The daily flow of workers through Carlisle
On a workday 559 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 33 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Carlisle on a workday afternoon, 30% 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 2023, primary jobs.
13% of working residents work in Cobleskill
Where Carlisle clocks in
8% of workers
8% 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.
Making and building: 77% of jobs based in Carlisle
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Carlisle, 2013 → 2023: 50 → 39. 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 Carlisle’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 31 minutes to work from Carlisle
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Carlisle workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 711 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.
The distance from Carlisle to work
About 27% 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 Carlisle, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Carlisle is more walkable than 17% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 2.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 765 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). 4.5% of Carlisle households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Carlisle’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 6,085 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400, Carlisle comes 3,037th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,035 | Bottineau ND | 2,152 | $66K | 12.0% | 1.7% | 42% | C+ |
| 3,036 | Hawkins TX | 1,862 | $72K | 13.3% | 4.4% | 7% | C+ |
| 3,037 | Carlisle NY | 1,760 | $87K | 9.6% | 5.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 3,038 | Tusten NY | 1,436 | $76K | 6.4% | 9.8% | 11% | C+ |
| 3,039 | Port Carbon PA | 1,806 | $61K | 10.6% | 4.5% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Carlisle, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Next door is work for 21% of Carlisle
The biggest share goes to Cobleskill (13%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Carlisle workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlisle | – | C+ | C− | 31 min | $86,971 |
| Cobleskill | 13% | D | A | 28 min | $54,706 |
| Charleston | under 2% | B | C | 34 min | $91,417 |
| Root | under 2% | C+ | C+ | 29 min | $75,771 |
| Esperance | under 2% | C | B− | 27 min | $76,058 |
| Sharon | 8% | C− | C+ | 30 min | $68,095 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Carlisle’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 Carlisle: questions
What is the median household income in Carlisle?
$86,971 (±$10,216) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Carlisle?
9.6%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Carlisle?
31 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 Carlisle work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cobleskill (13%, 4 mi), New York City (8%, 146 mi), Sharon (8%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Carlisle walkable?
Carlisle is more walkable than 17% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 2.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Carlisle without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Carlisle, from the people who make the trip.
More of Carlisle
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.