Photo: Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 3.0Goshen draws 10,119 commuters a day, with 1.9 jobs for every working resident
Household incomes here are higher than in 89% of U.S. towns. 11,168 jobs are based in Goshen, and 5,788 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Goshen is better than 73% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns (A).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Goshen apart
Goshen’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Goshen is New York City, 54 miles away as the crow flies. 17% of working residents (970) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Goshen is where the jobs are
Goshen has 11,168 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Goshen
Household income holds Goshen’s grade up ($121,442, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (7.1%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Goshen could be anywhere from B to A.
Short hops and long hauls from Goshen
About 18% 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.
Who leaves Goshen for work, and who comes in
On a workday 4,739 residents head out to work and 1,049 work right here.
About 20,000 people are in Goshen on a workday afternoon, 37% 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.
Who travels to work in Goshen, and from where
Where Goshen clocks in
17% of workers
8% of workers
4% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Goshen
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Goshen, 2014 → 2024: 8,754 → 11,168. 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 Goshen’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 37 minutes each way, longer than most of New York
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Goshen workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 5,092 commuters (the 16% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Goshen
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 6,048 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 36% 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). 5.9% of Goshen households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 6% of Goshen’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 10,000 to 20,000, Goshen ranks 953rd of 2,362 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 56 | Floral Park NY | 16,105 | $150K | 3.0% | 3.1% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 81 | East Rockaway NY | 10,096 | $125K | 2.6% | 3.2% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 83 | North Castle NY | 12,360 | $208K | 3.8% | 3.1% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 951 | Oatfield OR | 13,294 | $103K | 9.8% | 4.4% | 2% | B+ |
| 952 | Oregon OH | 19,674 | $82K | 8.5% | 3.1% | 14% | B+ |
| 953 | Goshen NY | 14,525 | $121K | 3.8% | 7.1% | 18% | B+ |
| 954 | Cameron Park CA | 18,315 | $102K | 7.0% | 4.5% | 6% | B+ |
| 955 | New Carrollton MD | 13,644 | $82K | 4.9% | 6.1% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,362 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 28% | 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 Goshen, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
The towns next door employ 14% of Goshen
The biggest share goes to Wallkill (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Goshen workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goshen | – | B+ | A | 37 min | $121,442 |
| Wawayanda | under 2% | B+ | C | 34 min | $143,017 |
| Warwick | 4% | B+ | A− | 40 min | $119,328 |
| Florida | under 2% | B+ | A− | 30 min | $123,250 |
| Chester | 2% | A | A− | 42 min | $139,778 |
| Hamptonburgh | under 2% | A− | B | 38 min | $122,250 |
| Blooming Grove | under 2% | B− | A− | 46 min | $95,967 |
| Chester | under 2% | A | A | 40 min | $100,514 |
| Wallkill | 8% | B− | A− | 31 min | $96,076 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Goshen’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 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 Goshen: questions
What is the median household income in Goshen?
$121,442 (±$17,478) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Goshen?
3.8%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Goshen?
37 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Goshen work?
18% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (17%, 54 mi), Wallkill (8%, 8 mi), Warwick (4%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Goshen walkable?
Goshen is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.5 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Goshen without a car?
6% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Goshen, from the people who make the trip.
More of Goshen
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. 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.