Photo: Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 3.0Granville’s household incomes are lower than in 91% of U.S. towns
4% of workers have no commute at all, where New York as a whole has 15%. The poverty rate is 20.7%; New York has 14.0%. Jobs and income earn Granville D; getting around on foot earns it A.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Granville: the gist
Commutes from Granville are quick
The average trip to work takes 23 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 77 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Granville and Granville trade workers both ways
Granville is the top workplace for Granville residents (21%) and also where the most people who work in Granville come from (35% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Granville makes and builds things
39% of the jobs based in Granville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Granville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 27%. The jobs ↓
Few Granville workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 15% across New York. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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.
Jobs & income in Granville: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Granville is better than 6% of U.S. towns. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Granville’s grade.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Granville could be anywhere from D− to C+.
About 23 minutes each way, quicker than most of New York
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Granville workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 996 commuters (the 3% 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.
21% of working residents work in Granville
Where Granville clocks in
21% of workers
6% 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.
Goods jobs make up 39% of work in Granville
847 jobs are based in Granville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Granville, 2014 → 2024: 1,003 → 847. 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 Granville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Granville on a workday afternoon
On a workday 895 residents head out to work, 124 work right here, and 723 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.83 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
How many miles Granville commutes
About 29% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Granville
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Granville is more walkable than 87% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 10.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 8.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,032 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 22.6% of Granville households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Granville’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,300, and where Granville sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| 7 | Village of the Branch NY | 1,764 | $174K | 1.5% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| 8 | Old Brookville NY | 2,098 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,757 | Union City PA | 2,823 | $44K | 23.7% | 7.5% | 16% | D |
| 4,758 | Reed City MI | 2,528 | $52K | 19.9% | 10.9% | 17% | D |
| 4,759 | Granville NY | 2,416 | $47K | 20.7% | 6.6% | 12% | D |
| 4,760 | Jonesville NC | 2,356 | $30K | 18.7% | 7.7% | 7% | D |
| 4,761 | Covert Township MI | 2,499 | $38K | 30.1% | 3.3% | 4% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,207 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Granville, 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 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 Granville: questions
What is the median household income in Granville?
$46,927 (±$14,287) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Granville?
20.7%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Granville?
23 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Granville work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Granville (21%, 2 mi), Queensbury (6%, 21 mi), Glens Falls (5%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Granville walkable?
Granville is more walkable than 87% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.2 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Granville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 23% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Granville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Granville
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.