US Post Office-Fulton · Photo: Jimmy Emerson (jimmywayne) · CC BY-SA 2.0Fulton has lower household incomes than 85% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Fulton is better than 17% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 83% of U.S. towns (A−). 23.5% of residents are in poverty, next to 14.0% for New York as a whole. Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 3.8 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 33.1 in Syracuse.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Fulton stands out on work
Fulton trades workers with the towns around it
Fulton has about as many jobs (4,419) as working residents (4,727), but they are mostly different people: 3,876 residents leave for work each day while 3,568 people come in. Only 19% of the jobs in Fulton are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Fulton are quick
The average trip to work takes 22 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 84 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Fulton’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Fulton is Syracuse, 24 miles away as the crow flies. 11% of working residents (543) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. 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.
How Fulton earns its Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Fulton’s grade up (ahead of 58% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Fulton could be anywhere from D to C.
How many people are in Fulton by day
On a workday 3,876 residents head out to work, 851 work right here, and 3,568 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 (0.93 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.
About 22 minutes each way for Fulton’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fulton workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,278 commuters (the 6% 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 Fulton
About 20% 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.
11% of working residents work in Syracuse
Where Fulton clocks in
11% 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.
Inside Fulton’s 4,419 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fulton, 2013 → 2023: 4,442 → 4,419. 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 Fulton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Good to walk, short on transit: Fulton
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 32.9% across New York.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,527 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 61% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 3.8 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 79% 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). 20.8% of Fulton households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Fulton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Fulton places 2,234th of 2,507 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 8,000 to 15,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 88 | East Rockaway NY | 10,096 | $125K | 2.6% | 3.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 91 | North Castle NY | 12,360 | $208K | 3.8% | 3.1% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 124 | Hastings-on-Hudson NY | 8,440 | $194K | 2.3% | 4.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,232 | Darby PA | 10,666 | $40K | 30.0% | 18.5% | 2% | C− |
| 2,233 | Alamosa CO | 9,849 | $50K | 15.9% | 4.4% | 45% | C− |
| 2,234 | Fulton NY | 11,188 | $52K | 23.5% | 6.5% | 18% | C− |
| 2,235 | Corinth MS | 14,345 | $44K | 18.7% | 4.7% | 35% | C− |
| 2,236 | King City CA | 14,002 | $67K | 23.0% | 5.4% | 23% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,507 | Roma TX | 11,543 | $25K | 37.1% | 12.4% | 22% | 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 Fulton, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Work in the towns next to Fulton
The biggest share goes to Volney (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Fulton’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 Fulton: questions
What is the median household income in Fulton?
$52,046 (±$6,053) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fulton?
23.5%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fulton?
22 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fulton work?
18% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Syracuse (11%, 24 mi), Oswego (9%, 10 mi), Clay (6%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fulton walkable?
Fulton is more walkable than 83% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 14.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fulton without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 21% of households have no car. 61% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fulton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fulton
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.