Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Chazy has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Chazy has 713 jobs for 1,778 working residents. For jobs and income Chazy is better than 54% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (C+). About one in ten work in Chazy itself; outside it, Plattsburgh draws the most (25%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Chazy apart on work
Commutes from Chazy are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 92 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Chazy makes and builds things
42% of the jobs based in Chazy are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Chazy residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 19%. The jobs ↓
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.
Jobs & income in Chazy: the grade in detail
Household income holds Chazy’s grade up ($95,648, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 18% 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, Chazy could be anywhere from C to A−.
About 21 minutes each way, quicker than most of New York
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Chazy workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,632 commuters (the 12% 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.
Making and building: 42% of jobs based in Chazy
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Chazy, 2013 → 2023: 714 → 713. 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 Chazy’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Chazy for work, and who comes in
On a workday 1,591 residents head out to work, 187 work right here, and 526 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,000 people are in Chazy on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
Where Chazy goes to work
Where Chazy clocks in
25% of workers
19% of workers
6% 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.
Miles to work from Chazy
About 22% 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.
Few in Chazy walk, bike or ride to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 4.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,856 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). 7.0% of Chazy households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Chazy’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,177 U.S. towns of 2,800 to 5,400, Chazy comes 1,975th 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Lloyd Harbor NY | 3,587 | $250K | 2.1% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 52 | Great Neck Estates NY | 3,139 | $238K | 5.7% | 1.7% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 109 | Pound Ridge NY | 5,057 | $250K | 4.5% | 2.0% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,973 | West Milwaukee WI | 3,984 | $49K | 20.4% | 1.6% | 3% | B− |
| 1,974 | Homer Township MI | 3,952 | $117K | 10.5% | 5.7% | 3% | B− |
| 1,975 | Chazy NY | 4,035 | $96K | 6.5% | 4.3% | 11% | B− |
| 1,976 | Westwood KY | 4,473 | $74K | 9.6% | 4.0% | 3% | B− |
| 1,977 | Blackhawk SD | 2,934 | $72K | 1.8% | 6.7% | 4% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,177 | 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 Chazy, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Bordering towns draw 11% of Chazy’s workers
The biggest share goes to Champlain (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Chazy workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chazy | – | B− | C+ | 21 min | $95,648 |
| Beekmantown | 5% | B− | D | 22 min | $87,162 |
| Altona | under 1% | D− | D− | 27 min | $51,367 |
| Champlain | 6% | D | C+ | 24 min | $59,866 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Chazy’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 Chazy: questions
What is the median household income in Chazy?
$95,648 (±$12,881) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Chazy?
6.5%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Chazy?
21 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Chazy work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Plattsburgh (25%, 11 mi), Plattsburgh (19%, 12 mi), Champlain (6%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Chazy walkable?
Chazy is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.6 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Chazy without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Chazy, from the people who make the trip.
More of Chazy
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.