Photo: Tyler A. McNeil · CC BY-SA 4.0Coxsackie has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
613 jobs are based in Coxsackie, against 1,170 working residents. Jobs and income earn Coxsackie C; getting around on foot earns it B. About one in ten stay in Coxsackie for work; outside it, Coxsackie is the main destination (18%, 3 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Coxsackie at work: what stands out
Jobs & income in Coxsackie: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Coxsackie is better than 31% of U.S. towns, #571 of 758 in New York. The poverty rate holds Coxsackie’s grade up (8.3%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (7.5%, U.S. 5.2%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Coxsackie could be anywhere from D to A−.
Where people from Coxsackie work
Where Coxsackie clocks in
18% of workers
15% of workers
8% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Coxsackie
On a workday 1,050 residents head out to work, 120 work right here, and 493 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,100 people are in Coxsackie on a workday afternoon, 21% 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 2024, primary jobs.
What Coxsackie’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Coxsackie, 2014 → 2024: 644 → 613. 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 Coxsackie’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 31 minutes in Coxsackie
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Coxsackie workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 940 commuters (the 10% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Coxsackie
About 24% 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.
For most of Coxsackie, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Coxsackie is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns, #457 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,041 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). 10.8% of Coxsackie households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Coxsackie’s commuters take a bus or train.
Coxsackie is 3,161st of 4,797 U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,600 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Old Brookville NY | 2,098 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | East Williston NY | 2,616 | $215K | 2.3% | 1.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 10 | Laurel Hollow NY | 1,949 | $250K | 3.5% | 2.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,159 | Cottondale AL | 2,632 | $45K | 32.0% | 2.9% | 1% | C |
| 3,160 | Herington KS | 2,101 | $71K | 7.6% | 0.5% | 29% | C |
| 3,161 | Coxsackie NY | 2,662 | $71K | 8.3% | 7.5% | 10% | C |
| 3,162 | Pink OK | 2,200 | $72K | 14.4% | 5.1% | 1% | C |
| 3,163 | Oliver Springs TN | 3,433 | $51K | 17.0% | 4.6% | 3% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,797 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 0% | 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 Coxsackie, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Around Coxsackie: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Coxsackie workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coxsackie | – | C | B | 31 min | $70,500 |
| Stuyvesant | under 2% | C− | C+ | 25 min | $66,000 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Coxsackie’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 Coxsackie: questions
What is the median household income in Coxsackie?
$70,500 (±$31,070) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Coxsackie?
8.3%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Coxsackie?
31 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Coxsackie work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Coxsackie (18%, 3 mi), Albany (15%, 21 mi), New York City (8%, 117 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Coxsackie walkable?
Coxsackie is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Coxsackie without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Coxsackie, from the people who make the trip.
More of Coxsackie
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.