Bramanville Mill · Photo: Adam Lenhardt · CC BY 3.0Household incomes in Cobleskill are lower than in 82% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 15.1% of residents, where New York as a whole has 14.0%. For jobs and income Cobleskill is better than 14% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns (A). About one in four stay in Cobleskill for work; outside it, New York City is the main destination (9%, 142 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Cobleskill, in brief
Cobleskill’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Cobleskill is New York City, 142 miles away as the crow flies. 9% of working residents (179) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Cobleskill is where the jobs are
Cobleskill has 3,392 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Cobleskill are quick
The average trip to work takes 28 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 38 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 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Cobleskill
All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Cobleskill’s grade.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Cobleskill could be anywhere from D− to B−.
Near or far: the trip to work from Cobleskill
About 30% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
How a workday changes Cobleskill
On a workday 1,536 residents head out to work, 537 work right here, and 2,855 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,800 people are in Cobleskill on a workday afternoon, 20% more than live here.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
About 28 minutes to work from Cobleskill
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cobleskill workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,319 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.
Commuting in to Cobleskill: where workers come from
Where Cobleskill clocks in
9% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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.
What work there is in Cobleskill: 3,392 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cobleskill, 2014 → 2024: 3,855 → 3,392. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cobleskill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Good to walk, short on transit: Cobleskill
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 13.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 8.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,637 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 Cobleskill households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Cobleskill’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Cobleskill is 3,013th of 3,351 U.S. towns of 4,500 to 8,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Lawrence NY | 6,847 | $170K | 3.5% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Irvington NY | 6,533 | $173K | 1.6% | 2.1% | 5% | A+ |
| 15 | Kings Point NY | 5,710 | $211K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,011 | Holtville CA | 5,591 | $65K | 18.7% | 9.4% | 16% | D |
| 3,012 | Harrison Township IN | 6,294 | $52K | 22.1% | 5.1% | 10% | D |
| 3,013 | Cobleskill NY | 6,484 | $55K | 15.1% | 6.2% | 26% | D |
| 3,014 | Hartsville SC | 7,374 | $49K | 19.6% | 7.2% | 26% | D |
| 3,015 | Amory MS | 6,386 | $53K | 16.4% | 7.0% | 23% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,351 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Cobleskill, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Around Cobleskill: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Schoharie (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Cobleskill workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cobleskill | – | D | A | 28 min | $54,706 |
| Schoharie | 5% | C | D | 33 min | $63,657 |
| Carlisle | under 2% | C+ | C− | 31 min | $86,971 |
| Richmondville | 3% | C− | C+ | 29 min | $51,046 |
| Seward | under 2% | C | C+ | 37 min | $86,786 |
| Middleburgh | under 2% | C− | C+ | 28 min | $53,374 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Cobleskill’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 2024, 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 Cobleskill: questions
What is the median household income in Cobleskill?
$54,706 (±$16,076) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cobleskill?
15.1%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cobleskill?
28 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 Cobleskill work?
26% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (9%, 142 mi), Schoharie (5%, 7 mi), Albany (4%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Cobleskill walkable?
Cobleskill is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.5 out of 20, and 14% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cobleskill without a car?
2% 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 Cobleskill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cobleskill
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.