Photo: The original uploader was Daniel Case at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0Gardiner has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Measured by household income, Gardiner is ahead of 86% of U.S. towns. There are 1,108 jobs in Gardiner; 2,110 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Gardiner are B+ for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Gardiner: the figures worth knowing
How Gardiner earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Gardiner is better than 71% of U.S. towns, #239 of 758 in New York. Household income holds Gardiner’s grade up ($115,234, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 50% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Gardiner could be anywhere from B− to A.
Where in the region Gardiner works
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
The daily commute in and out of Gardiner
On a workday 1,907 residents head out to work, 203 work right here, and 905 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,600 people are in Gardiner on a workday afternoon, 18% 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.
13% of working residents work in New York City
Where Gardiner clocks in
13% of workers
5% 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 kinds of work in Gardiner
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Gardiner, 2013 → 2023: 1,062 → 1,108. 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 Gardiner’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 32 minutes to work from Gardiner
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Gardiner workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,208 commuters (the 17% 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.
Getting around Gardiner: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Gardiner is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns, #451 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 9.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,668 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). 0.0% of Gardiner households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Gardiner’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,561 U.S. towns of 3,900 to 7,600, Gardiner comes 1,151st on jobs and income
| # | 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 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Lawrence NY | 6,847 | $170K | 3.5% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Irvington NY | 6,533 | $173K | 1.6% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| 16 | Kings Point NY | 5,710 | $211K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,149 | Barr Township IN | 5,404 | $93K | 7.4% | 0.3% | 20% | B+ |
| 1,150 | Vernon Township MI | 4,296 | $64K | 7.3% | 0.6% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,151 | Gardiner NY | 5,621 | $115K | 9.1% | 3.2% | 10% | B+ |
| 1,152 | Shackle Island TN | 4,404 | $130K | 6.7% | 7.2% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,153 | St. Clair MI | 5,833 | $70K | 7.1% | 0.8% | 10% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,561 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Gardiner, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
The towns next door employ 12% of Gardiner
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Gardiner workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gardiner | – | B+ | B | 32 min | $115,234 |
| Rochester | under 3% | C+ | B | 36 min | $86,691 |
| New Paltz | 12% | B+ | A | 26 min | $83,133 |
| Shawangunk | under 3% | B− | C | 35 min | $109,536 |
| Plattekill | under 3% | B+ | C | 32 min | $103,045 |
| Wawarsing | under 3% | C− | A− | 30 min | $64,321 |
| Lloyd | under 3% | B+ | B | 31 min | $92,220 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to New Paltz. Darker towns draw more of Gardiner’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 Gardiner: questions
What is the median household income in Gardiner?
$115,234 (±$11,714) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Gardiner?
9.1%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Gardiner?
32 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Gardiner work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (13%, 72 mi), New Paltz (12%, 7 mi), Poughkeepsie (5%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Gardiner walkable?
Gardiner is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Gardiner without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Gardiner, from the people who make the trip.
More of Gardiner
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.