Photo: עדירל · CC BY-SA 3.0Where Ellenburg earns its living
8% of workers work from home, next to 15% for New York as a whole. For jobs and income Ellenburg is better than 22% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (D). Only 5% work in Ellenburg itself; outside it, Plattsburgh draws the most (19%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Ellenburg’s Jobs & income grade comes from
Household income holds Ellenburg’s grade up ($73,125, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 7% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.9%) is left out: Ellenburg’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, Ellenburg could be anywhere from D to C+.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 545 residents head out to work, 31 work right here, and 481 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 (0.89 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.
Commuting out of Ellenburg: the destinations
Where Ellenburg clocks in
19% of workers
16% of workers
8% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
512 jobs are based in Ellenburg.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ellenburg, 2013 → 2023: 453 → 512. 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 Ellenburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Ellenburg: about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ellenburg workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 798 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.
How many miles Ellenburg commutes
About 28% 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 Ellenburg, the car does most of the work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 2.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 865 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). 6.8% of Ellenburg households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ellenburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Ellenburg ranks: 3,679th of 5,343 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,677 | Porterdale GA | 1,913 | $50K | 25.6% | 3.6% | 0% | C− |
| 3,678 | Mayville NY | 1,474 | $69K | 14.6% | 8.2% | 19% | C− |
| 3,679 | Ellenburg NY | 1,788 | $73K | 12.4% | 0.9% | 5% | C− |
| 3,680 | Rosemount OH | 2,199 | $42K | 13.3% | 4.2% | 3% | C− |
| 3,681 | Cleora OK | 1,477 | $82K | 14.5% | 6.0% | 3% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,343 | 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 Ellenburg, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Ellenburg and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ellenburg workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ellenburg | – | C− | D | 34 min | $73,125 |
| Clinton | under 2% | — | — | 36 min | — |
| Bellmont | under 2% | C− | D | 25 min | $70,250 |
| Altona | under 2% | D− | D− | 27 min | $51,367 |
| Dannemora | 8% | C | B− | 21 min | $77,829 |
Same-state neighbors only. Clinton: the same community as the town of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Dannemora. Darker towns draw more of Ellenburg’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 Ellenburg: questions
What is the median household income in Ellenburg?
$73,125 (±$10,058) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ellenburg?
12.4%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ellenburg?
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 Ellenburg work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Plattsburgh (19%, 18 mi), Plattsburgh (16%, 21 mi), Dannemora (8%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ellenburg walkable?
Ellenburg is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 2.6 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ellenburg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ellenburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ellenburg
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.