Photo: Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 3.0Hudson has 2.0 jobs for every working resident: 3,930 people commute in to work
There are 4,439 jobs in Hudson; 2,253 of its residents have a job. Hudson grades D for jobs and income and A for walkability. Household incomes here are lower than in 83% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Hudson stands out on work
Hudson’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Hudson is New York City, 110 miles away as the crow flies. 13% of working residents (295) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Hudson is where the jobs are
Hudson has 4,439 jobs, 2.0 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Home offices are common in Hudson
27% of Hudson workers work from home, against 15% across New York. Time on the road ↓
Commutes from Hudson are quick
The average trip to work takes 27 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Nearly all the work in Hudson is services
86% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 7% are in factories, building or farms. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Hudson’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Hudson is better than 10% of U.S. towns, #725 of 758 in New York. Job access by car holds Hudson’s grade up (ahead of 44% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (28.2%, U.S. 12.5%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hudson could be anywhere from D to C.
How far it is to work from Hudson
About 31% 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.
Who works in Hudson, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 1,744 residents head out to work and 509 work right here.
About 7,900 people are in Hudson on a workday afternoon, 38% more 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.
About 27 minutes to work from Hudson
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hudson workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,061 commuters (the 27% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Hudson
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hudson, 2013 → 2023: 4,277 → 4,439. 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 Hudson’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The towns that send workers to Hudson
Where Hudson clocks in
13% of workers
6% of workers
6% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Hudson
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hudson is more walkable than 93% of U.S. towns, #135 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 20.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 9.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,818 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). 19.6% of Hudson households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 8% of Hudson’s commuters take a bus or train.
Where Hudson sits among U.S. towns of 4,000 to 7,700
| # | 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 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Lawrence NY | 6,847 | $170K | 3.5% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 15 | Irvington NY | 6,533 | $173K | 1.6% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| 16 | Kings Point NY | 5,710 | $211K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,193 | Warren Township OH | 5,554 | $53K | 23.0% | 5.2% | 24% | D |
| 3,194 | International Falls MN | 5,481 | $58K | 13.3% | 7.7% | 65% | D |
| 3,195 | Hudson NY | 5,721 | $54K | 28.2% | 7.7% | 23% | D |
| 3,196 | Franklin Township IN | 7,070 | $45K | 24.0% | 8.2% | 11% | D |
| 3,197 | Mecca CA | 7,184 | $48K | 17.8% | 7.0% | 6% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,476 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Hudson, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Work in the towns next to Hudson
The biggest share goes to Greenport (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hudson workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hudson | – | D | A | 27 min | $54,139 |
| Greenport | 6% | C− | A− | 19 min | — |
| Lorenz Park | under 2% | — | — | 18 min | — |
| Athens | under 2% | C+ | A− | 29 min | $84,107 |
| Athens | under 2% | B− | C+ | 29 min | $84,896 |
Same-state neighbors only. Lorenz Park: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Hudson’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 Hudson: questions
What is the median household income in Hudson?
$54,139 (±$10,984) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hudson?
28.2%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hudson?
27 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 27% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hudson work?
23% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (13%, 110 mi), Greenport (6%, 2 mi), Claverack (6%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hudson walkable?
Hudson is more walkable than 93% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 9.0 out of 20, and 20% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hudson without a car?
8% of commuters take transit and 20% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hudson, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hudson
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.