Photo: Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 4.0Cornwall’s household incomes are higher than in 86% of U.S. towns
Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 0.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 79.0 in New York City. Poverty touches 5.2% of residents; New York has 14.0%. For jobs and income Cornwall is better than 77% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (A−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Cornwall: the figures worth knowing
Income, poverty and work: Cornwall’s grade explained
Household income holds Cornwall’s grade up ($114,635, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down. It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Cornwall could be anywhere from B to A.
The commute from Cornwall, by distance
About 17% 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.
Who works in Cornwall, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 4,596 residents head out to work, 610 work right here, and 2,514 people come in from elsewhere.
About 10,000 people are in Cornwall on a workday afternoon, 17% fewer than live here.
0.60 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
16% of working residents work in New York City
Where Cornwall clocks in
16% of workers
5% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Cornwall
3,124 jobs are based in Cornwall.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cornwall, 2013 → 2023: 2,457 → 3,124. 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 Cornwall’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Cornwall: about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cornwall workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 5,339 commuters (the 16% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Cornwall
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 6,365 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 24% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 43% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.5% of Cornwall households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Cornwall’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Cornwall is 803rd of 2,354 U.S. towns of 9,000 to 17,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 62 | Floral Park NY | 16,105 | $150K | 3.0% | 3.1% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 87 | East Rockaway NY | 10,096 | $125K | 2.6% | 3.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 90 | North Castle NY | 12,360 | $208K | 3.8% | 3.1% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 801 | Suffield CT | 16,046 | $119K | 4.6% | 6.1% | 10% | A− |
| 802 | Fairmount Township KS | 12,817 | $122K | 6.7% | 5.3% | 7% | A− |
| 803 | Cornwall NY | 12,577 | $115K | 5.2% | 5.0% | 12% | A− |
| 804 | Middle Valley TN | 12,187 | $95K | 5.0% | 4.0% | 1% | A− |
| 805 | Clayton CA | 10,842 | $176K | 2.5% | 6.7% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,354 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Cornwall, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Work next door: 11% of Cornwall’s workers
The biggest share goes to New Windsor (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Cornwall workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornwall | – | A− | A− | 31 min | $114,635 |
| New Windsor | 7% | B | A− | 37 min | $95,071 |
| Highlands | under 2% | A− | A | 19 min | $116,111 |
| Blooming Grove | 2% | B− | A− | 46 min | $95,967 |
| Woodbury | under 2% | B+ | B+ | 43 min | $121,221 |
| Woodbury | 2% | — | — | 41 min | — |
| Fishkill | under 2% | B | B+ | 36 min | $101,423 |
| Vails Gate | under 2% | — | — | 48 min | — |
| West Point | under 2% | — | — | 10 min | — |
| Philipstown | under 2% | A− | A | 40 min | $140,557 |
Same-state neighbors only. Woodbury: the same community as the village of that name, graded once. Vails Gate and West Point: Census-designated places inside larger towns, graded as part of them. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Cornwall’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 Cornwall: questions
What is the median household income in Cornwall?
$114,635 (±$10,732) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cornwall?
5.2%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cornwall?
31 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cornwall work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (16%, 52 mi), New Windsor (7%, 5 mi), Newburgh (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cornwall walkable?
Cornwall is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.3 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cornwall without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cornwall, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cornwall
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.