Easton Friends North Meetinghouse · Photo: Mark Kozlowski · CC BY-SA 4.0Fewer people are out of work in Easton (1.6%) than in 89% of U.S. towns
About one in ten stay in Easton for work; outside it, Greenwich is the main destination (8%, 9 miles). Easton grades A− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. 2.9% of residents live below the poverty line (New York 14.0%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Easton and work: the main findings
Easton makes and builds things
71% of the jobs based in Easton are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Easton residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 20%. The jobs ↓
Easton has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Easton went from 485 in 2013 to 927 in 2023, +91%. The jobs ↓
Most jobs in Easton pay over $40,000 a year
74% of the jobs based in Easton pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. 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; with 923 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Inside Easton’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Easton is better than 77% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Easton’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 27% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Easton could be anywhere from B to A.
Goods jobs make up 71% of work in Easton
927 jobs are based in Easton.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Easton, 2013 → 2023: 485 → 927. 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 Easton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 830 residents head out to work, 93 work right here, and 834 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 (1.00 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.
The towns that employ Easton’s residents
Where Easton clocks in
6% 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.
Getting to work from Easton takes 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 Easton workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 884 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.
How far Easton’s workers travel
About 18% 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.
Driving is how Easton gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Easton is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 4.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,060 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). 8.2% of Easton households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Easton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Easton is 884th among 5,328 U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| 8 | Village of the Branch NY | 1,764 | $174K | 1.5% | 3.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 9 | Old Brookville NY | 2,098 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 882 | Valatie NY | 1,705 | $100K | 4.1% | 6.5% | 3% | A− |
| 883 | Hammond Township IN | 1,645 | $84K | 4.4% | 1.1% | 1% | A− |
| 884 | Easton NY | 2,261 | $86K | 2.9% | 1.6% | 10% | A− |
| 885 | Springfield Township OH | 2,995 | $81K | 3.9% | 1.6% | 6% | A− |
| 886 | Covington Township PA | 2,286 | $100K | 6.2% | 3.1% | 10% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,328 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Easton, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
12% of Easton works in a town next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Easton workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easton | – | A− | C− | 30 min | $85,625 |
| Greenwich | 8% | B | C+ | 32 min | $73,537 |
| Saratoga | 4% | B+ | C+ | 25 min | $101,313 |
| Cambridge | under 3% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Stillwater | under 3% | B | C | 29 min | $105,380 |
| Stillwater | under 3% | B | B | 30 min | $90,060 |
| Schuylerville | under 3% | B− | A | 26 min | $86,765 |
| Schaghticoke | under 3% | A | C− | 27 min | $107,083 |
| Jackson | under 3% | C+ | C− | 34 min | $77,375 |
Same-state neighbors only. Cambridge: the same community as the village of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Greenwich. Darker towns draw more of Easton’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 Easton: questions
What is the median household income in Easton?
$85,625 (±$14,540) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Easton?
2.9%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Easton?
30 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 Easton work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greenwich (8%, 9 mi), Saratoga Springs (6%, 12 mi), Albany (4%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Easton walkable?
Easton is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Easton without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Easton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Easton
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.