Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel · CC BY-SA 4.0Greene has 4.1 jobs for every working resident: 2,398 people commute in to work
Household incomes here are lower than in 78% of U.S. towns. 2,522 jobs are based in Greene, against 618 working residents. Greene grades C for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Greene stands out on work
Greene fills up on a workday
Greene has 2,522 jobs, 4.1 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 3,300 people are in town, more than double the 1,400 who live here. Day and night ↓
Greene makes and builds things
85% of the jobs based in Greene are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Greene residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 28%. The jobs ↓
Greene and Greene trade workers both ways
Greene is the top workplace for Greene residents (24%) and also where the most people who work in Greene come from (17% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
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; with 618 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Greene’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Greene is better than 26% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Greene’s grade up (10.3%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($57,386, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (6.1%) is left out: Greene’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Greene could be anywhere from D to B−.
Greene’s population more than doubles on a workday
On a workday 494 residents head out to work and 124 work right here.
About 3,300 people are in Greene on a workday afternoon, 134% 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 2023, primary jobs.
Goods, not services: 85% of the jobs in Greene
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Greene, 2013 → 2023: 2,098 → 2,522. 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 Greene’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who travels to work in Greene, and from where
Where Greene clocks in
24% of workers
10% of workers
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.
From Greene, about 23 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Greene workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 619 commuters (the 15% 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.
The distance from Greene to work
About 22% 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.
In Greene, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Greene is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 16.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 728 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). 14.6% of Greene households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Greene’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Greene ranks: 3,623rd of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Saddle Rock NY | 1,008 | $176K | 0.8% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,621 | Bassett VA | 1,031 | $46K | 9.4% | 2.4% | 4% | C |
| 3,622 | West Buechel KY | 1,402 | $49K | 18.8% | 7.5% | 2% | C |
| 3,623 | Greene NY | 1,420 | $57K | 10.3% | 6.1% | 20% | C |
| 3,624 | Lovington Township IL | 1,515 | $60K | 9.9% | 1.6% | 2% | C |
| 3,625 | Mason Township IL | 1,243 | $78K | 15.6% | 3.4% | <1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Greene, 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 Greene: questions
What is the median household income in Greene?
$57,386 (±$11,484) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Greene?
10.3%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Greene?
23 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Greene work?
20% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greene (24%, 2 mi), Binghamton (10%, 18 mi), Union (6%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Greene walkable?
Greene is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 16% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Greene without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 15% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Greene, from the people who make the trip.
More of Greene
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.