Copake Iron Works Historic District · Photo: IlyaSukhanov · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Copake commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Jobs and income earn Copake C; getting around on foot earns it B+. There are 521 jobs in Copake, and 1,219 of its residents work somewhere. Household incomes here are higher than in 85% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Copake, in a few figures
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Copake
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Copake is better than 34% of U.S. towns, #542 of 758 in New York. Household income holds Copake’s grade up ($113,611, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 9% of U.S. towns).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Copake could be anywhere from D to B+.
Short hops and long hauls from Copake
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.
The daily commute in and out of Copake
On a workday 1,089 residents head out to work, 130 work right here, and 391 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,500 people are in Copake on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
9% of working residents work in New York City
Where Copake clocks in
9% of workers
7% 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.
The kinds of work in Copake
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Copake, 2013 → 2023: 440 → 521. 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’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Copake: about 32 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Copake workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,086 commuters (the 15% 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.
Most of Copake commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Copake is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns, #334 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 14.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 6.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,279 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). 2.6% of Copake households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 12% of Copake’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,068th of 4,698: where Copake ranks among U.S. towns of 2,200 to 4,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | East Williston NY | 2,616 | $215K | 2.3% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 9 | Lloyd Harbor NY | 3,587 | $250K | 2.1% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 45 | Great Neck Estates NY | 3,139 | $238K | 5.7% | 1.7% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,066 | Vassar Township MI | 3,871 | $63K | 11.6% | 3.8% | 2% | C |
| 3,067 | White Creek NY | 3,274 | $73K | 8.3% | 4.5% | 13% | C |
| 3,068 | Copake NY | 3,205 | $114K | 13.5% | 5.7% | 11% | C |
| 3,069 | Belpre Township OH | 3,815 | $79K | 9.8% | 5.1% | 4% | C |
| 3,070 | Canaan Township PA | 3,701 | $73K | 12.5% | 1.6% | 5% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,698 | 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 Copake, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Work next door: 10% of Copake’s workers
The biggest share goes to Hillsdale (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Copake’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 Copake: questions
What is the median household income in Copake?
$113,611 (±$40,041) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Copake?
13.5%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Copake?
32 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Copake work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (9%, 104 mi), Hudson (7%, 15 mi), Hillsdale (6%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Copake walkable?
Copake is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.4 out of 20, and 14% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Copake without a car?
12% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Copake, from the people who make the trip.
More of Copake
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.