Photo: Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 4.0Hurley has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Household incomes here are higher than in 78% of U.S. towns. Hurley has 590 jobs, against 2,745 working residents. For jobs and income Hurley is better than 68% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns (B−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Hurley
Commutes from Hurley are quick
The average trip to work takes 23 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 77 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Hurley is a place people come home to
There are 590 jobs based in Hurley, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Hurley has about 4,000 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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.
Hurley’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
Unemployment holds Hurley’s grade up (2.4%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 41% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hurley could be anywhere from C+ to A.
How long Hurley spends getting to work: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hurley workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,301 commuters (the 20% 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.
Who commutes out of Hurley, and who commutes in
On a workday 2,595 residents head out to work, 150 work right here, and 440 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,000 people are in Hurley on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
20% of working residents work in Kingston
Where Hurley clocks in
20% of workers
12% 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 kinds of work in Hurley
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hurley, 2013 → 2023: 514 → 590. 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 Hurley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Hurley 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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Hurley, the car does most of the work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,878 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). 2.9% of Hurley households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Hurley’s commuters take a bus or train.
Hurley is 1,250th of 3,370 U.S. towns of 4,300 to 8,300 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 | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,248 | Winooski VT | 8,239 | $80K | 13.8% | 1.2% | 7% | B+ |
| 1,249 | Bridgewater VA | 6,924 | $75K | 6.3% | 3.4% | 12% | B+ |
| 1,250 | Hurley NY | 6,133 | $101K | 10.1% | 2.4% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,251 | Nuevo CA | 6,803 | $113K | 6.6% | 7.0% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,252 | Plantation FL | 4,531 | $78K | 5.6% | 0.0% | 2% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,370 | 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 Hurley, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Bordering towns draw 17% of Hurley’s workers
The biggest share goes to Ulster (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hurley workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hurley | – | B+ | B− | 23 min | $101,099 |
| Ulster | 7% | B− | B− | 21 min | $79,769 |
| Woodstock | 6% | C+ | B+ | 27 min | $92,118 |
| Marbletown | under 2% | B− | B | 35 min | $114,330 |
| Olive | 4% | C+ | B− | 30 min | $114,018 |
| Zena | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Rosendale | under 2% | C+ | B− | 22 min | $71,875 |
| Shokan | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Zena and Shokan: Census-designated places inside larger towns, graded as part of them. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Hurley’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 Hurley: questions
What is the median household income in Hurley?
$101,099 (±$14,457) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hurley?
10.1%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hurley?
23 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hurley work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kingston (20%, 7 mi), New York City (12%, 89 mi), Ulster (7%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hurley walkable?
Hurley is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hurley without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hurley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hurley
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.