Photo: Dtobias · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs and the daily commute in Crown Heights
Only 2% work in Crown Heights; the top destination outside it is Poughkeepsie (21%, 2 miles). Home is the office for 4% of workers, where New York as a whole has 15%. A typical one-way commute lasts 41 minutes (New York 33, U.S. 26).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Crown Heights in brief
Crown Heights’ biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Crown Heights is New York City, 68 miles away as the crow flies. 12% of working residents (167) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Crown Heights workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 41 minutes each way, against 33 across New York. Over a year that’s about 314 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Crown Heights workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 15% across New York. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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.
The commute from Crown Heights, by distance
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
The daily trip from Crown Heights: about 41 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Crown Heights workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,300 commuters (the 3% 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.
Who commutes out of Crown Heights, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,332 residents head out to work, 27 work right here, and 937 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,300 people are in Crown Heights on a workday afternoon, 15% fewer than live here.
0.71 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.
Where the trip to work from Crown Heights ends
Where Crown Heights clocks in
21% of workers
12% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Crown Heights
964 jobs are based in Crown Heights.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Crown Heights, 2013 → 2023: 988 → 964. 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 Crown Heights’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 Crown Heights: questions
What is the median household income in Crown Heights?
$109,848 (±$28,697) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Crown Heights?
4.9%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Crown Heights?
41 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Crown Heights work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Poughkeepsie (21%, 2 mi), New York City (12%, 68 mi), Poughkeepsie (8%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Crown Heights without a car?
10% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Crown Heights, from the people who make the trip.
More of Crown Heights
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.