Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0At 1.4%, unemployment in Frankfort is lower than in 91% of U.S. towns
Household incomes here are lower than in 87% of U.S. towns. The two grades for Frankfort are B− for jobs and income and A− for walkability. Only 6% stay in Frankfort for work; outside it, Utica is the main destination (19%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Frankfort and work: the main findings
How Frankfort earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Frankfort is better than 52% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Frankfort’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($50,909, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Frankfort could be anywhere from C to B+.
How long Frankfort spends getting to work: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 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 1,029 commuters (the 14% 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.
Who commutes out of Frankfort, and who commutes in
On a workday 916 residents head out to work, 58 work right here, and 535 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Frankfort on a workday afternoon, 17% fewer than live here.
0.61 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 Frankfort’s residents
Where Frankfort clocks in
19% of workers
10% of workers
9% 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.
Frankfort works in goods: 33% of its jobs
593 jobs are based in Frankfort.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Frankfort, 2013 → 2023: 693 → 593. 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 Frankfort’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Frankfort
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.
Frankfort is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Frankfort is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Frankfort near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,192 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). 8.8% of Frankfort households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Frankfort’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Frankfort is 2,143rd of 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,141 | Randolph NY | 2,405 | $77K | 9.1% | 2.8% | 19% | B− |
| 2,142 | Big Spring Township OH | 1,663 | $74K | 5.8% | 1.0% | 7% | B− |
| 2,143 | Frankfort NY | 2,275 | $51K | 11.2% | 1.4% | 6% | B− |
| 2,144 | Vergennes VT | 2,559 | $77K | 11.6% | 1.6% | 20% | B− |
| 2,145 | Palmyra Township IL | 2,860 | $94K | 5.5% | 5.9% | 3% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Frankfort, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Frankfort and its neighbors
Jobs & commute next door
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 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 Frankfort: questions
What is the median household income in Frankfort?
$50,909 (±$4,161) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Frankfort?
11.2%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Frankfort?
27 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Frankfort work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Utica (19%, 9 mi), Frankfort (10%, 3 mi), New Hartford (9%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Frankfort walkable?
Frankfort is more walkable than 85% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.3 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Frankfort without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 9% 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), 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.