Crossover Island Light Station · Public domainHammond has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Employers in Hammond report 205 jobs; 374 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Hammond D; getting around on foot earns it B−. About one in seven stay in Hammond for work; outside it, Alexandria is the main destination (9%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Inside Hammond’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Hammond is better than 8% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Hammond’s grade up ($73,375, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 2% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (6.0%) is left out: Hammond’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, Hammond could be anywhere from D− to C.
The daily commute in and out of Hammond
On a workday 320 residents head out to work, 54 work right here, and 151 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Hammond on a workday afternoon, 14% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Out of Hammond to work: where people go
Where Hammond clocks in
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.
What Hammond’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hammond, 2014 → 2024: 168 → 205. 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 Hammond’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Hammond: about 29 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hammond workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 617 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 Hammond to work
About 28% 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.
Driving is how Hammond gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hammond is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 4.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 693 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). 5.3% of Hammond households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hammond’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Hammond ranks: 4,139th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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% | 2% | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,137 | Wellington UT | 1,606 | $61K | 18.8% | 5.6% | 1% | D |
| 4,138 | Salem WV | 1,570 | $39K | 16.8% | 4.4% | 7% | D |
| 4,139 | Hammond NY | 1,245 | $73K | 28.4% | 6.0% | 14% | D |
| 4,140 | Brokenstraw Township PA | 1,654 | $50K | 14.7% | 4.2% | 16% | D |
| 4,141 | Farmland IN | 1,265 | $41K | 22.4% | 4.2% | 2% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Hammond, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Hammond and its neighbors: 13% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hammond workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hammond | – | D | B− | 29 min | $73,375 |
| Morristown | 4% | D | B− | 23 min | $66,250 |
| Macomb | under 3% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Rossie | under 3% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Alexandria | 9% | C | B | 21 min | $85,020 |
Same-state neighbors only. Macomb and Rossie: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Alexandria. Darker towns draw more of Hammond’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 Hammond: questions
What is the median household income in Hammond?
$73,375 (±$21,133) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hammond?
28.4%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hammond?
29 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 Hammond work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Alexandria (9%, 11 mi), Ogdensburg (7%, 23 mi), Gouverneur (7%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Hammond walkable?
Hammond is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hammond without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hammond, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hammond
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.