Lattin-Crandall Octagon Barn · Photo: Dmadeo · CC BY-SA 3.0Catharine has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
215 jobs are based in Catharine, and 538 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Catharine D; getting around on foot earns it D. Measured by household income, Catharine is behind 76% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Catharine, in a few figures
Where Catharine’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Catharine is better than 13% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Catharine’s grade up (ahead of 31% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (20.7%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (7.7%) is left out: Catharine’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, Catharine could be anywhere from D to C.
A commute of about 25 minutes in Catharine
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Catharine workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 525 commuters (the 8% 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.
Who works in Catharine, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 518 residents head out to work, 20 work right here, and 195 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Catharine 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 2023, primary jobs.
10% of working residents work in Dix
Where Catharine clocks in
9% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Catharine
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Catharine, 2013 → 2023: 200 → 215. 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 Catharine’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Catharine commutes less than 16 miles
About 18% 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.
Most trips from Catharine start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Catharine is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Catharine 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 569 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). 4.9% of Catharine households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Catharine’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100, Catharine comes 4,580th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 5 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,578 | Denver Township MI | 1,175 | $62K | 18.3% | 14.2% | 1% | D |
| 4,579 | Coldsprings Township MI | 1,611 | $61K | 12.3% | 4.2% | 1% | D |
| 4,580 | Catharine NY | 1,526 | $59K | 20.7% | 7.7% | 4% | D |
| 4,581 | Spring Township PA | 1,629 | $59K | 14.9% | 1.5% | 10% | D |
| 4,582 | Tornillo TX | 1,341 | $50K | 32.2% | 6.6% | 6% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | 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 Catharine, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
How Catharine compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Montour (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Catharine workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catharine | – | D | D | 25 min | $58,500 |
| Montour | 9% | D | B+ | 18 min | $64,417 |
| Cayuta | under 3% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Newfield | under 3% | C+ | C+ | 26 min | $74,333 |
| Hector | under 3% | C | D | 27 min | $79,904 |
| Veteran | under 3% | C+ | D | 23 min | $65,341 |
Same-state neighbors only. Cayuta: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Catharine’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 Catharine: questions
What is the median household income in Catharine?
$58,500 (±$14,630) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Catharine?
20.7%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Catharine?
25 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Catharine work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dix (10%, 8 mi), Horseheads (9%, 13 mi), Montour (9%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Catharine walkable?
Catharine is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Catharine without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Catharine, from the people who make the trip.
More of Catharine
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.