Photo: Doug Kerr from Upstate New York · CC BY-SA 2.0Delhi has 2.9 jobs for every working resident: 2,199 people commute in to work
There are 2,342 jobs in Delhi, against 808 working residents. Delhi grades D for jobs and income and A− for walkability. Measured by household income, Delhi is behind 77% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Delhi apart on work
Delhi is where the jobs are
Delhi has 2,342 jobs, 2.9 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 5,100 people are in town, 44% more than the 3,500 who live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Delhi are quick
The average trip to work takes 13 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 153 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
49% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 808 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Delhi’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Delhi is better than 13% of U.S. towns, #711 of 758 in New York. Unemployment holds Delhi’s grade up (5.2%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Delhi could be anywhere from D− to C+.
A workday in Delhi: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 665 residents head out to work and 143 work right here.
About 5,100 people are in Delhi on a workday afternoon, 44% more 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.
Delhi’s commute takes about 13 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Delhi workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 952 commuters (the 18% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Delhi
About 49% 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.
Where Delhi’s workforce comes from
Where Delhi clocks in
26% of workers
13% of workers
4% 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.
Delhi is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Delhi, 2013 → 2023: 2,834 → 2,342. 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 Delhi’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Delhi is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Delhi is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns, #281 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 30.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 6.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,158 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 19.3% of Delhi households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Delhi’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Delhi is 3,848th among 4,355 U.S. towns of 2,500 to 4,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | East Williston NY | 2,616 | $215K | 2.3% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 8 | Lloyd Harbor NY | 3,587 | $250K | 2.1% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 50 | Great Neck Estates NY | 3,139 | $238K | 5.7% | 1.7% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,846 | Summerville GA | 4,440 | $33K | 25.5% | 3.9% | 11% | D |
| 3,847 | McCall ID | 4,133 | $60K | 16.0% | 5.4% | 51% | D |
| 3,848 | Delhi NY | 3,526 | $58K | 17.4% | 5.2% | 18% | D |
| 3,849 | Nyssa OR | 3,257 | $69K | 16.9% | 7.4% | 15% | D |
| 3,850 | Hallettsville TX | 2,736 | $56K | 15.3% | 5.4% | 22% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,355 | 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 Delhi, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
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 Delhi: questions
What is the median household income in Delhi?
$57,586 (±$6,489) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Delhi?
17.4%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Delhi?
13 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Delhi work?
18% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Delhi (26%, 0 mi), New York City (13%, 122 mi), Albany (4%, 63 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Delhi walkable?
Delhi is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 31% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Delhi without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 19% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Delhi, from the people who make the trip.
More of Delhi
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.