Photo: Julia Manzerova · CC BY-SA 3.0Hunter draws 433 commuters a day, with 3.6 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Hunter report 444 jobs, and 125 of its residents work somewhere. About one in ten stay in Hunter for work; outside it, Hunter is the main destination (20%, 4 miles). Home is the office for 0% of workers, where New York as a whole has 15%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Hunter nearly doubles on a workday
On a workday 114 residents head out to work and 11 work right here.
About 730 people are in Hunter on a workday afternoon, 78% 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.
Commuting in to Hunter: where workers come from
Where Hunter clocks in
20% of workers
14% 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.
In Hunter, services account for most jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hunter, 2013 → 2023: 497 → 444. 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 Hunter’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Working from home in Hunter
of Hunter workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 42 commuters (the 0% 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 commute from Hunter, by distance
About 43% 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.
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 Hunter: questions
What is the median household income in Hunter?
$40,083 (±$26,711) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hunter?
4.5%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
Where do people who live in Hunter work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hunter (20%, 4 mi), New York City (14%, 108 mi), Albany (5%, 38 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Hunter 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 Hunter, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hunter
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.