Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Chromakode~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5Copake Lake has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
Only 4% stay in Copake Lake for work; outside it, Copake is the main destination (13%, 3 miles). There are 121 jobs in Copake Lake for 276 working residents. For 21% of workers, the job is at home, where New York as a whole has 15%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Copake Lake: the gist
Copake Lake’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Copake Lake is New York City, 104 miles away as the crow flies. 10% of working residents (27) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Commutes from Copake Lake are quick
The average trip to work takes 26 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 54 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 276 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How far Copake Lake’s workers travel
About 25% 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.
About 26 minutes each way for Copake Lake’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Copake Lake workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 248 commuters (the 21% 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.
Copake Lake on a workday afternoon
On a workday 265 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 110 people come in from elsewhere.
About 630 people are in Copake Lake on a workday afternoon, 20% 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 Copake Lake goes to work
Where Copake Lake clocks in
10% of workers
7% 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.
The kinds of work in Copake Lake
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Copake Lake, 2013 → 2023: 87 → 121. 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 Copake Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.
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 Copake Lake: questions
What is the median household income in Copake Lake?
$102,009 (±$42,157) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Copake Lake?
0.9%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Copake Lake?
26 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 21% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Copake Lake work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Copake (13%, 3 mi), New York City (10%, 104 mi), Hudson (7%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Copake Lake without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Copake Lake, from the people who make the trip.
More of Copake Lake
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.