Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0Dundee has lower household incomes than 93% of U.S. towns
About one in ten work in Dundee; the top destination outside it is Starkey (17%, 2 miles). Poverty touches 21.7% of residents (New York 14.0%). For jobs and income Dundee is better than 3% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (B).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Dundee stands out on work
Dundee and Starkey trade workers both ways
Starkey is the top workplace for Dundee residents (17%) and also where the most people who work in Dundee come from (29% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Dundee are quick
The average trip to work takes 24 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 69 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. 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; with 534 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Dundee earns its Jobs & income grade
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Dundee’s grade.
Unemployment (3.4%) is left out: Dundee’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Dundee could be anywhere from D− to D.
Where Dundee goes to work
Where Dundee clocks in
Lines 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 Dundee, about 24 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dundee workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 700 commuters (the 13% 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.
A workday in Dundee: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 473 residents head out to work, 61 work right here, and 352 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.77 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
What the 413 jobs in Dundee are
413 jobs are based in Dundee.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dundee, 2013 → 2023: 468 → 413. 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 Dundee’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Dundee, by distance
About 22% 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.
In Dundee, most people drive to work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 802 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). 13.6% of Dundee households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Dundee’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Dundee compares with U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,429 | Manchester KY | 1,411 | $24K | 41.1% | 9.5% | 24% | D− |
| 5,430 | Belzoni MS | 1,719 | $34K | 18.8% | 9.4% | 13% | D− |
| 5,431 | Dundee NY | 1,672 | $45K | 21.7% | 3.4% | 11% | D− |
| 5,432 | Comanche OK | 1,393 | $41K | 26.6% | 4.1% | 9% | D− |
| 5,433 | Naples TX | 1,409 | $35K | 25.7% | 11.3% | 5% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Dundee, 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 Dundee: questions
What is the median household income in Dundee?
$44,583 (±$10,722) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dundee?
21.7%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dundee?
24 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dundee work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Starkey (17%, 2 mi), Milo (15%, 6 mi), Benton (4%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Dundee walkable?
Dundee is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dundee without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dundee, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dundee
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.