Photo: Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 3.0Dover has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.4 for each
About one in seven stay in Dover for work; outside it, New York City is the main destination (15%, 73 miles). Dover has 1,355 jobs; 3,349 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Dover are C+ for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Dover: the figures worth knowing
Dover’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Dover is New York City, 73 miles away as the crow flies. 15% of working residents (486) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Dover has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Dover went from 964 in 2013 to 1,355 in 2023, +41%. The jobs ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Where Dover’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Dover is better than 41% of U.S. towns, #491 of 758 in New York. Household income holds Dover’s grade up ($91,803, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (5.9%, U.S. 5.2%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Dover could be anywhere from C− to A−.
How far Dover’s workers travel
About 27% 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.
Dover makes things: 29% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dover, 2013 → 2023: 964 → 1,355. 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 Dover’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Dover: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 2,904 residents head out to work, 445 work right here, and 910 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,400 people are in Dover on a workday afternoon, 24% 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.
Where Dover goes to work
Where Dover clocks in
15% 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.
From Dover, about 34 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dover workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,041 commuters (the 8% 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 trips from Dover start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Dover is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns, #434 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.6% 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 4,370 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 11% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 11% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.8 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 55% 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). 3.6% of Dover households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Dover’s commuters take a bus or train.
Dover next to U.S. towns of 5,900 to 11,400: 1,994th of 2,981 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Lawrence NY | 6,847 | $170K | 3.5% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Irvington NY | 6,533 | $173K | 1.6% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 112 | East Rockaway NY | 10,096 | $125K | 2.6% | 3.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,992 | Waynesville NC | 11,006 | $55K | 15.9% | 1.9% | 23% | C+ |
| 1,993 | Skiatook OK | 8,960 | $57K | 13.4% | 3.9% | 10% | C+ |
| 1,994 | Dover NY | 8,419 | $92K | 11.4% | 5.9% | 13% | C+ |
| 1,995 | Edgemoor DE | 6,349 | $59K | 17.5% | 4.5% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,996 | Lecanto FL | 7,398 | $56K | 5.8% | 4.3% | 6% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,981 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Dover, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Next door to Dover
The biggest share goes to Pawling (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Dover workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dover | – | C+ | B | 34 min | $91,803 |
| Union Vale | under 2% | A− | B− | 40 min | $102,888 |
| Amenia | 3% | C | B | 35 min | $76,426 |
| Pawling | 6% | A− | B+ | 37 min | $120,592 |
| Beekman | under 2% | B+ | B− | 38 min | $126,250 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Dover’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 Dover: questions
What is the median household income in Dover?
$91,803 (±$26,862) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dover?
11.4%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dover?
34 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dover work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (15%, 73 mi), Pawling (6%, 8 mi), Southeast (5%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Dover walkable?
Dover is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.4 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dover without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 11% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dover, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dover
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.