Photo: Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in East Fishkill have higher incomes than those in 93% of U.S. towns
3.8% of residents live below the poverty line, where New York as a whole has 14.0%. East Fishkill grades A− for jobs and income and B− for walkability. About one in ten stay in East Fishkill for work; outside it, New York City is the main destination (15%, 62 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in East Fishkill: the figures worth knowing
Inside East Fishkill’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, East Fishkill is better than 79% of U.S. towns, #172 of 758 in New York. Household income holds East Fishkill’s grade up ($138,543, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (5.5%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, East Fishkill could be anywhere from B+ to A.
The commute from East Fishkill, by distance
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.
East Fishkill by day and by night
On a workday 11,035 residents head out to work, 1,173 work right here, and 7,046 people come in from elsewhere.
About 26,000 people are in East Fishkill on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.67 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.
The towns that employ East Fishkill’s residents
Where East Fishkill clocks in
15% of workers
7% 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.
A place that makes things: 31% of East Fishkill’s jobs are in goods
8,219 jobs are based in East Fishkill.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in East Fishkill, 2013 → 2023: 9,339 → 8,219. 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 East Fishkill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
East Fishkill’s commute takes about 36 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of East Fishkill workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 12,525 commuters (the 17% 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 of East Fishkill commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, East Fishkill is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns, #531 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 15,040 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). 2.5% of East Fishkill households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of East Fishkill’s commuters take a bus or train.
East Fishkill is 499th of 1,366 U.S. towns of 21,000 to 40,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Eastchester NY | 34,015 | $156K | 4.8% | 2.6% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 49 | Garden City NY | 23,043 | $244K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 10% | A+ |
| 50 | Clifton Park NY | 37,775 | $133K | 2.3% | 2.0% | 13% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 497 | Saratoga Springs NY | 28,768 | $106K | 9.7% | 2.5% | 30% | A− |
| 498 | Harris Township IN | 24,560 | $112K | 7.1% | 4.1% | 6% | A− |
| 499 | East Fishkill NY | 29,801 | $139K | 3.8% | 5.5% | 10% | A− |
| 500 | Manor Township PA | 21,969 | $90K | 6.6% | 3.5% | 6% | A− |
| 501 | Winter Springs FL | 39,585 | $93K | 6.8% | 4.0% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,366 | Barstow CA | 24,804 | $53K | 23.1% | 11.9% | 17% | 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 East Fishkill, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Bordering towns draw 13% of East Fishkill’s workers
The biggest share goes to Wappinger (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | East Fishkill workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Fishkill | – | A− | B− | 36 min | $138,543 |
| Wappinger | 7% | A− | B | 28 min | $95,234 |
| Myers Corner | under 3% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Fishkill | 4% | B | B+ | 36 min | $101,423 |
| Brinckerhoff | under 3% | — | — | 35 min | — |
| New Hackensack | under 3% | — | — | 36 min | — |
| Kent | under 3% | A− | B+ | 39 min | $129,012 |
| Beekman | under 3% | B+ | B− | 38 min | $126,250 |
| LaGrange | 2% | B+ | B | 33 min | $121,586 |
| Pawling | under 3% | A− | B+ | 37 min | $120,592 |
Same-state neighbors only. Myers Corner, Brinckerhoff and New Hackensack: Census-designated places inside larger towns, graded as part of them. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of East Fishkill’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 East Fishkill: questions
What is the median household income in East Fishkill?
$138,543 (±$8,481) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in East Fishkill?
3.8%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from East Fishkill?
36 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in East Fishkill work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (15%, 62 mi), Poughkeepsie (7%, 10 mi), Wappinger (7%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is East Fishkill walkable?
East Fishkill is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around East Fishkill without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from East Fishkill, from the people who make the trip.
More of East Fishkill
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.