Hankins Stone Arch Bridge · Photo: Doug Kerr from Upstate New York · CC BY-SA 2.0Fremont has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
For 23% of workers, the job is at home, where New York as a whole has 15%. Employers in Fremont report 51 jobs; 479 of its residents have a job. Fremont grades C for jobs and income and D− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Fremont
Fremont is a place people come home to
There are 51 jobs based in Fremont, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Fremont has about 720 people in it, 37% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of Fremont works one town over
27% of working residents work in a town that borders Fremont: Delaware (20%), Callicoon (3%) and Rockland (3%). Next door ↓
A big share show a job far from home
38% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 479 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Fremont
On income, poverty and job access, Fremont is better than 25% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Fremont’s grade up (8.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 2% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Fremont’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Fremont could be anywhere from D− to B.
Fremont by day and by night
On a workday 467 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 39 people come in from elsewhere.
About 720 people are in Fremont on a workday afternoon, 37% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
How far Fremont goes to work
About 38% 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.
20% of working residents work in Delaware
Where Fremont clocks in
13% of workers
12% 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.
Fremont works in goods: 61% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fremont, 2013 → 2023: 82 → 51. 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 Fremont’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Fremont takes about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fremont workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 396 commuters (the 23% 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 commute in Fremont is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fremont is near the bottom of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Fremont 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 514 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 1.8% of Fremont households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Fremont’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Fremont is 2,310th among 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Saddle Rock NY | 1,008 | $176K | 0.8% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,308 | Lincoln WI | 1,167 | $79K | 12.0% | 3.1% | 21% | C |
| 2,309 | York Township IN | 1,128 | $76K | 14.3% | 7.0% | 6% | C |
| 2,310 | Fremont NY | 1,147 | $67K | 8.3% | 0.0% | 3% | C |
| 2,311 | Adams Township OH | 1,497 | $80K | 15.9% | 3.2% | 1% | C |
| 2,312 | Covington Township PA | 1,019 | $70K | 9.3% | 5.5% | 5% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Fremont, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
The towns next door employ 27% of Fremont
The biggest share goes to Delaware (20%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Fremont’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 Fremont: questions
What is the median household income in Fremont?
$67,115 (±$24,628) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fremont?
8.3%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fremont?
29 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 23% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fremont work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Delaware (20%, 8 mi), New York City (13%, 101 mi), Thompson (12%, 24 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fremont walkable?
Fremont is near the bottom of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fremont without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fremont, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fremont
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.