Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Household incomes in Champlain are lower than in 66% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 12.5% of residents, where New York as a whole has 14.0%. For jobs and income Champlain is better than 19% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (B). Only 7% work in Champlain itself; outside it, Champlain draws the most (26%, 2 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Champlain
Champlain and Champlain trade workers both ways
Champlain is the top workplace for Champlain residents (26%) and also where the most people who work in Champlain come from (33% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
69% of the jobs in Champlain are in trade, transport and utilities, against 30% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Champlain are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 100 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 517 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Champlain
The poverty rate holds Champlain’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 11% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.8%) is left out: Champlain’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Champlain could be anywhere from D− to B−.
The places Champlain commutes to
Where Champlain clocks in
26% of workers
14% of workers
12% 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.
Jobs in Champlain: what the 427 are
427 jobs are based in Champlain.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Champlain, 2013 → 2023: 346 → 427. 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 Champlain’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Champlain: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Champlain workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 556 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.
In and out of Champlain on a workday
On a workday 480 residents head out to work, 37 work right here, and 390 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 (0.83 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.
The commute from Champlain, by distance
About 23% 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 Champlain, most people drive to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 6.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 609 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). 10.1% of Champlain households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Champlain’s commuters take a bus or train.
Champlain next to U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500: 2,624th of 3,771 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 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Saddle Rock NY | 1,008 | $176K | 0.8% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,622 | Liberty Township PA | 1,015 | $78K | 18.1% | 2.0% | 4% | C− |
| 2,623 | Glendale MS | 1,257 | $57K | 30.1% | 2.9% | 1% | C− |
| 2,624 | Champlain NY | 1,122 | $65K | 12.5% | 3.8% | 7% | C− |
| 2,625 | Biglerville PA | 1,240 | $52K | 21.8% | 10.2% | 3% | C− |
| 2,626 | Falls Creek PA | 1,002 | $51K | 15.6% | 5.3% | 4% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Champlain, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
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 Champlain: questions
What is the median household income in Champlain?
$65,000 (±$25,704) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Champlain?
12.5%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Champlain?
20 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 Champlain work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Champlain (26%, 2 mi), Plattsburgh (14%, 20 mi), Plattsburgh (12%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Champlain walkable?
Champlain is more walkable than 62% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Champlain without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Champlain, from the people who make the trip.
More of Champlain
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.