Photo: UpstateNYer · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Hoosick commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
For jobs and income Hoosick is better than 40% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (B). Hoosick has 1,269 jobs for 2,768 working residents. About one in five stay in Hoosick for work; outside it, Bennington is the main destination (19%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Hoosick, in brief
Hoosick’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
Unemployment holds Hoosick’s grade up (1.9%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hoosick could be anywhere from C− to B+.
The towns that employ Hoosick’s residents
Where Hoosick clocks in
19% of workers
8% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Hoosick
On a workday 2,280 residents head out to work, 488 work right here, and 781 people come in from elsewhere.
About 5,200 people are in Hoosick on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
The kinds of work in Hoosick
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hoosick, 2013 → 2023: 1,470 → 1,269. 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 Hoosick’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 32 minutes in Hoosick
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hoosick workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,458 commuters (the 16% 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 Hoosick
About 17% 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.
In Hoosick, most people drive to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 6.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,936 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). 11.2% of Hoosick households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hoosick’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 4,700 to 9,000, Hoosick ranks 2,123rd of 3,201 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Lawrence NY | 6,847 | $170K | 3.5% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Irvington NY | 6,533 | $173K | 1.6% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| 15 | Kings Point NY | 5,710 | $211K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,121 | Schriever LA | 6,690 | $67K | 13.9% | 4.0% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,122 | Madison ME | 4,888 | $62K | 15.0% | 0.7% | 8% | C+ |
| 2,123 | Hoosick NY | 6,678 | $63K | 12.8% | 1.9% | 18% | C+ |
| 2,124 | Sanibel FL | 6,303 | $109K | 11.6% | 5.7% | 20% | C+ |
| 2,125 | Medina NY | 5,855 | $59K | 12.3% | 3.3% | 26% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,201 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Hoosick, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
21% of Hoosick works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hoosick workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hoosick | – | C+ | B | 32 min | $63,372 |
| White Creek | 2% | C | C+ | 35 min | $72,853 |
| Cambridge | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Pittstown | under 2% | C+ | D | 29 min | $92,098 |
| Petersburgh | under 2% | B− | D | 30 min | $77,692 |
Same-state neighbors only. Cambridge: the same community as the village of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Bennington. Darker towns draw more of Hoosick’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 Hoosick: questions
What is the median household income in Hoosick?
$63,372 (±$20,655) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hoosick?
12.8%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hoosick?
32 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hoosick work?
18% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bennington (19%, 7 mi), Albany (8%, 27 mi), New York City (5%, 156 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hoosick walkable?
Hoosick is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.6 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hoosick without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hoosick, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hoosick
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.