Benjamin Ten Broeck House · Photo: Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 3.0At 1.0%, unemployment in Greenville is lower than in 94% of U.S. towns
About one in seven stay in Greenville for work; outside it, Albany is the main destination (13%, 22 miles). The two grades for Greenville are B+ for jobs and income and B for walkability. Poverty touches 2.5% of residents, next to 14.0% for New York as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Greenville: the figures worth knowing
Where Greenville’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Greenville is better than 73% of U.S. towns, #224 of 758 in New York. The poverty rate holds Greenville’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down. It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Greenville could be anywhere from B− to A−.
What the 904 jobs in Greenville are
904 jobs are based in Greenville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Greenville, 2014 → 2024: 953 → 904. 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 Greenville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in Greenville, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,477 residents head out to work, 227 work right here, and 677 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,900 people are in Greenville on a workday afternoon, 22% fewer than live here.
0.53 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute 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.
Where Greenville goes to work
Where Greenville clocks in
13% of workers
9% 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.
Each way, about 32 minutes from Greenville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Greenville workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,710 commuters (the 11% 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 Greenville 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Few in Greenville walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Greenville is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns, #398 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 6.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,918 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). 3.4% of Greenville households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 6% of Greenville’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,148th of 4,318: where Greenville ranks among U.S. towns of 2,600 to 5,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | East Williston NY | 2,616 | $215K | 2.3% | 1.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 8 | Lloyd Harbor NY | 3,587 | $250K | 2.1% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 49 | Great Neck Estates NY | 3,139 | $238K | 5.7% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,146 | Sauk City WI | 3,439 | $91K | 8.4% | 2.9% | 13% | B+ |
| 1,147 | Lanesborough MA | 2,999 | $86K | 5.6% | 1.6% | 7% | B+ |
| 1,148 | Greenville NY | 3,707 | $81K | 2.5% | 1.0% | 13% | B+ |
| 1,149 | Indian Head Park IL | 3,961 | $100K | 7.4% | 6.7% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,150 | New London NH | 4,411 | $108K | 0.9% | 3.8% | 25% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,318 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Greenville, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Around Greenville: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Cairo (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Greenville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenville | – | B+ | B | 32 min | $81,406 |
| Durham | 2% | B | B− | 33 min | $81,471 |
| Cairo | 4% | B | D | 29 min | $79,643 |
| New Baltimore | under 3% | B | D− | 29 min | $100,182 |
| East Durham | under 3% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Westerlo | under 3% | B+ | D | 29 min | $99,167 |
| Coxsackie | 3% | B− | C+ | 33 min | $88,188 |
Same-state neighbors only. East Durham: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Greenville’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 Greenville: questions
What is the median household income in Greenville?
$81,406 (±$19,891) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Greenville?
2.5%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Greenville?
32 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Greenville work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Albany (13%, 22 mi), New York City (9%, 120 mi), Catskill (7%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Greenville walkable?
Greenville is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Greenville without a car?
6% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Greenville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Greenville
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.