Photo: Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 3.0Goshen’s household incomes are higher than in 80% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 2.2% of residents, next to 14.0% for New York as a whole. For jobs and income Goshen is better than 85% of U.S. towns (A); for walkability it is more walkable than 94% of U.S. towns (A). About one in ten stay in Goshen for work; outside it, Goshen is the main destination (19%, 2 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Goshen apart on work
Goshen is where the jobs are
Goshen has 3,799 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Goshen and Goshen trade workers both ways
Goshen is the top workplace for Goshen residents (19%) and also where the most people who work in Goshen come from (12% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Goshen are quick
The average trip to work takes 27 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
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.
Why Goshen gets the Jobs & income grade it does
The poverty rate is its strongest input; unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (4.1%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and unemployment 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+.
The workday shuffle in and out of Goshen
On a workday 2,103 residents head out to work, 246 work right here, and 3,553 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,200 people are in Goshen on a workday afternoon, 25% more than live here.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The towns that send workers to Goshen
Where Goshen clocks in
19% of workers
15% of workers
10% 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.
Goshen’s commute takes about 27 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 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 2,285 commuters (the 13% 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.
What Goshen’s employers do
3,799 jobs are based in Goshen.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Goshen, 2013 → 2023: 3,798 → 3,799. 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 Goshen’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work 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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Goshen is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,613 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 90% 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). 8.6% of Goshen households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 6% of Goshen’s commuters take a bus or train.
Goshen is 589th of 3,527 U.S. towns of 4,000 to 7,800 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 587 | Delhi Hills OH | 5,241 | $99K | 2.9% | 4.0% | 1% | A |
| 588 | Esperance WA | 4,189 | $149K | 10.5% | 3.2% | <1% | A |
| 589 | Goshen NY | 5,744 | $105K | 2.2% | 4.1% | 10% | A |
| 590 | Sinking Spring PA | 4,584 | $83K | 7.8% | 1.2% | 5% | A |
| 591 | Washington Township IN | 5,883 | $110K | 9.1% | 1.9% | 9% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,527 | 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 Goshen, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
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 Goshen: questions
What is the median household income in Goshen?
$104,643 (±$13,085) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Goshen?
2.2%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Goshen?
27 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Goshen work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Goshen (19%, 2 mi), New York City (15%, 55 mi), Wallkill (10%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Goshen walkable?
Goshen is more walkable than 94% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 12.6 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 9% 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), 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.