Garrattsville has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
2 jobs are based in Garrattsville, and 54 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Garrattsville; the top destination outside it is Edmeston (11%, 7 miles). For 0% of workers, the job is at home (New York 15%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Garrattsville by day and by night
On a workday 54 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 2 people come in from elsewhere.
About 95 people are in Garrattsville on a workday afternoon, 35% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where people from Garrattsville work
Where Garrattsville clocks in
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.
The kinds of work in Garrattsville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Garrattsville, 2014 → 2024: 26 → 2. 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 Garrattsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 22 minutes each way for Garrattsville’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 Garrattsville workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 63 commuters (the 0% 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.
How far it is to work from Garrattsville
About 37% 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 Garrattsville: questions
What is the poverty rate in Garrattsville?
21.8%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Garrattsville?
22 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Garrattsville work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Edmeston (11%, 7 mi), Otsego (9%, 13 mi), Oneonta (6%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Garrattsville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Garrattsville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Garrattsville
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.