Photo: Mitchazenia · CC BY-SA 4.0Eagle has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs and income earn Eagle C−; getting around on foot earns it B. Eagle has 106 jobs for 482 working residents. Only 4% work in Eagle; the top destination outside it is Warsaw (8%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Eagle apart
Income, poverty and work: Eagle’s grade explained
On income, poverty and job access, Eagle is better than 17% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Eagle’s grade up ($72,778, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 5% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.6%) is left out: Eagle’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, Eagle could be anywhere from D− to C+.
Eagle quiets down on a workday
On a workday 464 residents head out to work, 18 work right here, and 88 people come in from elsewhere.
About 710 people are in Eagle on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
Out of Eagle to work: where people go
Where Eagle clocks in
8% of workers
7% 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.
Goods, not services: 31% of the jobs in Eagle
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Eagle, 2013 → 2023: 119 → 106. 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 Eagle’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Eagle spends getting to work: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Eagle workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 464 commuters (the 11% 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.
How far Eagle’s workers travel
About 23% 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 Eagle, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Eagle is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 9.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 522 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). 10.5% of Eagle households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Eagle’s commuters take a bus or train.
Eagle is 2,696th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Saddle Rock NY | 1,008 | $176K | 0.8% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,694 | Rutherford TN | 1,147 | $51K | 12.0% | 3.3% | 3% | C− |
| 2,695 | Markesan WI | 1,380 | $62K | 21.1% | 2.9% | 17% | C− |
| 2,696 | Eagle NY | 1,089 | $73K | 14.8% | 2.6% | 4% | C− |
| 2,697 | Burlington NY | 1,037 | $66K | 13.0% | 7.6% | 1% | C− |
| 2,698 | Marion Township OH | 1,288 | $63K | 17.2% | 3.0% | 2% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Eagle, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
10% of Eagle works in a town next door
The biggest share goes to Arcade (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Eagle workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eagle | – | C− | B | 30 min | $72,778 |
| Arcade | 6% | C | C+ | 29 min | $62,011 |
| Centerville | under 3% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Pike | 4% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Wethersfield | under 3% | — | — | 28 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Centerville, Pike and Wethersfield: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Eagle’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 Eagle: questions
What is the median household income in Eagle?
$72,778 (±$18,800) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Eagle?
14.8%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Eagle?
30 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Eagle work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Warsaw (8%, 14 mi), Gainesville (7%, 9 mi), Arcade (6%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Eagle walkable?
Eagle is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Eagle without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Eagle, from the people who make the trip.
More of Eagle
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.