Photo: Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 3.0Work, pay and getting to work in Grahamsville
Home is the office for 5% of workers (New York 15%). Only 7% stay in Grahamsville for work; outside it, Thompson is the main destination (13%, 16 miles). A typical one-way commute lasts 36 minutes, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Grahamsville by day and by night
On a workday 154 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 247 people come in from elsewhere.
About 340 people are in Grahamsville on a workday afternoon, 37% 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 2024, primary jobs.
The towns that send workers to Grahamsville
Where Grahamsville clocks in
13% of workers
13% 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.
Grahamsville is a services town
259 jobs are based in Grahamsville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Grahamsville, 2014 → 2024: 104 → 259. 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 Grahamsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 36 minutes to work from Grahamsville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Grahamsville workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 188 commuters (the 5% 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.
Miles to work from Grahamsville
About 25% 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 Grahamsville: questions
What is the poverty rate in Grahamsville?
2.8%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Grahamsville?
36 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Grahamsville work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Thompson (13%, 16 mi), Neversink (13%, 2 mi), New York City (13%, 88 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Grahamsville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Grahamsville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Grahamsville
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.