Freedom Plains has 6.4 jobs for every working resident: 1,141 people commute in to work
For 2% of workers, the job is at home, against 15% across New York. Freedom Plains has 1,143 jobs; 179 of its residents have a job. Only 1% stay in Freedom Plains for work; outside it, New York City is the main destination (15%, 70 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Freedom Plains on a workday afternoon
On a workday 177 residents head out to work and 2 work right here.
About 1,600 people are in Freedom Plains on a workday afternoon, 159% more than live here.
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 the people who work in Freedom Plains live
Where Freedom Plains clocks in
15% of workers
11% of workers
10% 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.
In Freedom Plains, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Freedom Plains, 2014 → 2024: 864 → 1,143. 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 Freedom Plains’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Freedom Plains spends getting to work: about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Freedom Plains workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 410 commuters (the 2% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Freedom Plains
About 26% 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.
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 Freedom Plains: questions
What is the median household income in Freedom Plains?
$44,536 (±$41,192) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Freedom Plains?
1.0%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Freedom Plains?
27 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Freedom Plains work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (15%, 70 mi), Poughkeepsie (11%, 7 mi), Poughkeepsie (10%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Freedom Plains without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Freedom Plains, from the people who make the trip.
More of Freedom Plains
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.