Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0Frankfort has lower household incomes than 69% of U.S. towns
7.3% of residents live below the poverty line, where New York as a whole has 14.0%. The two grades for Frankfort are B for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Only 7% work in Frankfort; the top destination outside it is Utica (24%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Frankfort at work: what stands out
A lot of Frankfort works one town over
44% of working residents work in a town that borders Frankfort: Utica (24%), New Hartford (9%) and Herkimer (6%). Next door ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
55% of the jobs in Frankfort are in trade, transport and utilities, against 18% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
A longer commute than the towns next door
Frankfort averages 28 minutes each way, more than any bordering town (18 to 24 minutes). Next door ↓
Commutes from Frankfort are quick
The average trip to work takes 28 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 38 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 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
How Frankfort earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Frankfort is better than 57% of U.S. towns, #360 of 758 in New York. The poverty rate holds Frankfort’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($62,861, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on unemployment and job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Frankfort could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
66% of the jobs in Frankfort pay over $3,333 a month
1,902 jobs are based in Frankfort.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Frankfort, 2014 → 2024: 1,596 → 1,902. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Frankfort’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Frankfort: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Frankfort workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,962 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.
The daily flow of workers through Frankfort
On a workday 3,055 residents head out to work, 247 work right here, and 1,655 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,400 people are in Frankfort on a workday afternoon, 20% fewer than live here.
0.58 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where people from Frankfort work
Where Frankfort clocks in
24% of workers
9% of workers
6% 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.
The distance from Frankfort to work
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Frankfort, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Frankfort is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns, #601 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,390 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). 7.0% of Frankfort households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Frankfort’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,593rd of 3,168: where Frankfort ranks among U.S. towns of 4,800 to 9,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Lawrence NY | 6,847 | $170K | 3.5% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Irvington NY | 6,533 | $173K | 1.6% | 2.1% | 5% | A+ |
| 16 | Kings Point NY | 5,710 | $211K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,591 | Millsboro DE | 7,890 | $79K | 8.3% | 2.9% | 10% | B |
| 1,592 | Taneytown MD | 8,259 | $88K | 11.2% | 4.0% | 9% | B |
| 1,593 | Frankfort NY | 6,847 | $63K | 7.3% | 3.3% | 7% | B |
| 1,594 | Ohio Township OH | 5,812 | $73K | 14.3% | 2.3% | 6% | B |
| 1,595 | Connerton FL | 7,650 | $124K | 5.0% | 8.7% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,168 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Frankfort, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Work next door: 44% of Frankfort’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Frankfort workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frankfort | – | B | C+ | 28 min | $62,861 |
| Schuyler | under 3% | C+ | D | 21 min | $65,469 |
| Utica | 24% | C− | A+ | 20 min | $52,484 |
| Litchfield | under 3% | B+ | D− | 24 min | $87,750 |
| Herkimer | 6% | C− | A− | 22 min | $56,287 |
| New Hartford | 9% | B+ | B | 18 min | $81,173 |
| German Flatts | 5% | B− | B | 21 min | $67,791 |
| Ilion | under 3% | B− | B+ | 20 min | $62,843 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Utica. Darker towns draw more of Frankfort’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 2024, 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 Frankfort: questions
What is the median household income in Frankfort?
$62,861 (±$9,049) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Frankfort?
7.3%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Frankfort?
28 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 Frankfort work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Utica (24%, 6 mi), New Hartford (9%, 7 mi), Herkimer (6%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Frankfort walkable?
Frankfort is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Frankfort without a car?
<1% 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 Frankfort, from the people who make the trip.
More of Frankfort
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.