Households in Harpersfield earn less than those in 85% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 18.5% of residents; New York has 14.0%. For jobs and income Harpersfield is better than 5% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns (B−). About one in seven work in Harpersfield; the top destination outside it is Stamford (13%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Harpersfield, in a few figures
The four measures behind Harpersfield’s grade
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Harpersfield’s grade.
Unemployment (5.1%) is left out: Harpersfield’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, Harpersfield could be anywhere from D− to D.
What work there is in Harpersfield: 415 jobs
415 jobs are based in Harpersfield.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Harpersfield, 2014 → 2024: 514 → 415. 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 Harpersfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of Harpersfield, and who commutes in
On a workday 480 residents head out to work, 67 work right here, and 348 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 (0.76 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.
Where Harpersfield goes to work
Where Harpersfield clocks in
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.
About 31 minutes each way for Harpersfield’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Harpersfield workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 509 commuters (the 13% 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 Harpersfield to work
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 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 Harpersfield gets around
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.7% 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 586 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.7% of Harpersfield households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Harpersfield’s commuters take a bus or train.
Harpersfield and other 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% | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,345 | Bridgeport IL | 1,652 | $53K | 23.7% | 8.4% | 6% | D− |
| 5,346 | Munday TX | 1,190 | $56K | 19.6% | 1.8% | 18% | D− |
| 5,347 | Harpersfield NY | 1,419 | $52K | 18.5% | 5.1% | 12% | D− |
| 5,348 | Butterfield Park NM | 1,119 | $34K | 33.4% | 20.2% | 0% | D− |
| 5,349 | Sardis MS | 1,670 | $32K | 40.7% | 16.3% | 3% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Harpersfield, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Harpersfield and its neighbors: 15% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Harpersfield workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harpersfield | – | D− | B− | 31 min | $52,118 |
| Stamford | 13% | D | B+ | 29 min | $62,083 |
| Worcester | under 2% | C− | C | 26 min | $69,886 |
| Davenport | 2% | C | B | 21 min | $79,539 |
| Maryland | under 2% | C− | D− | 33 min | $63,036 |
| Stamford | under 2% | D− | B+ | 26 min | $43,716 |
| Kortright | under 2% | C | C− | 24 min | $80,729 |
| Jefferson | under 2% | C− | C | 32 min | $67,083 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Stamford. Darker towns draw more of Harpersfield’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 Harpersfield: questions
What is the median household income in Harpersfield?
$52,118 (±$8,676) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Harpersfield?
18.5%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Harpersfield?
31 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Harpersfield work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Stamford (13%, 8 mi), New York City (6%, 130 mi), Delhi (5%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Harpersfield walkable?
Harpersfield is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Harpersfield without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Harpersfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Harpersfield
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.