Most of Greig commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Greig grades D for jobs and income and C− for walkability. There are 57 jobs in Greig; 400 of its residents have a job. Measured by household income, Greig is behind 77% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Greig: the gist
Why Greig gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Greig is better than 8% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Greig’s grade up (14.8%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 2% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.8%) is left out: Greig’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Greig could be anywhere from D− to C.
How many people are in Greig by day
On a workday 395 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 52 people come in from elsewhere.
About 850 people are in Greig on a workday afternoon, 29% fewer 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.
25% of working residents work in Lowville
Where Greig clocks in
Lines 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.
Jobs in Greig: what the 57 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Greig, 2013 → 2023: 42 → 57. 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 Greig’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Greig takes about 36 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Greig workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 398 commuters (the 10% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Greig
About 27% 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.
Getting around Greig: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Greig is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 3.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 443 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). 6.6% of Greig households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Greig’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600, Greig comes 3,665th on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,663 | Montrose PA | 1,275 | $53K | 24.6% | 5.5% | 9% | D |
| 3,664 | Pine River Township MN | 1,240 | $58K | 15.5% | 7.3% | 2% | D |
| 3,665 | Greig NY | 1,195 | $58K | 14.8% | 5.8% | 1% | D |
| 3,666 | East Fallowfield Township PA | 1,517 | $59K | 24.6% | 2.2% | 3% | D |
| 3,667 | Stanberry MO | 1,168 | $63K | 19.0% | 3.8% | 16% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Greig, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Next door is work for 11% of Greig
The biggest share goes to Turin (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Greig workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greig | – | D | C− | 36 min | $58,000 |
| Turin | 4% | — | — | 34 min | — |
| Martinsburg | 2% | B− | B | 16 min | $85,313 |
| Lyonsdale | 3% | C− | C | 24 min | $61,806 |
| Watson | under 2% | C+ | C+ | 33 min | $68,864 |
| Webb | 2% | B+ | C | 30 min | $107,641 |
Same-state neighbors only. Turin: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Greig’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 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 Greig: questions
What is the median household income in Greig?
$58,000 (±$20,443) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Greig?
14.8%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Greig?
36 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Greig work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lowville (25%, 18 mi), Watertown (8%, 40 mi), Turin (4%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Greig walkable?
Greig is more walkable than 16% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 3.4 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Greig without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Greig, from the people who make the trip.
More of Greig
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.