Hermon at work: jobs, income and the commute
5% of workers work from home (New York 15%). For jobs and income Hermon is better than 26% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 11% of U.S. towns (D). Household incomes here are lower than in 58% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Hermon: the figures worth knowing
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Hermon
The poverty rate holds Hermon’s grade up (9.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down.
Unemployment (13.7%) is left out: Hermon’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, Hermon could be anywhere from D to B−.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Hermon
389 jobs are based in Hermon.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hermon, 2013 → 2023: 338 → 389. 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 Hermon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Hermon
On a workday 313 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 374 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 (1.19 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
17% of working residents work in Canton
Where Hermon clocks in
17% 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.
Hermon’s commute takes about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hermon workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 389 commuters (the 5% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Hermon
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.
For most of Hermon, work means a drive
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 3.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 410 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). 5.0% of Hermon households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hermon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Hermon places 2,280th of 3,771 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,278 | Mason Township IL | 1,243 | $78K | 15.6% | 3.4% | <1% | C |
| 2,279 | Lyon Township MI | 1,279 | $68K | 8.2% | 3.2% | 7% | C |
| 2,280 | Hermon NY | 1,094 | $70K | 9.2% | 13.7% | 5% | C |
| 2,281 | Markle IN | 1,086 | $56K | 16.7% | 2.8% | 4% | C |
| 2,282 | Glidden IA | 1,133 | $68K | 11.7% | 3.0% | 3% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Hermon, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
17% of Hermon works in a town next door
The biggest share goes to Gouverneur (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hermon workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hermon | – | C | D | 31 min | $69,896 |
| De Kalb | 8% | C | D | 25 min | $57,467 |
| Russell | under 3% | D | D− | 34 min | $65,189 |
| Edwards | under 3% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Fowler | under 3% | D | D | 26 min | $49,875 |
| Gouverneur | 9% | D− | B | 24 min | $44,411 |
Same-state neighbors only. Edwards: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Hermon’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 Hermon: questions
What is the median household income in Hermon?
$69,896 (±$16,436) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hermon?
9.2%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hermon?
31 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hermon work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Canton (17%, 13 mi), Gouverneur (9%, 10 mi), De Kalb (8%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hermon walkable?
Hermon is more walkable than 11% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hermon 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 Hermon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hermon
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.