Photo: Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Hyde Park works elsewhere
The two grades for Hyde Park are B− for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. There are 5,158 jobs in Hyde Park for 9,718 working residents. About one in ten work in Hyde Park itself; outside it, Poughkeepsie draws the most (14%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Hyde Park
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Hyde Park is better than 54% of U.S. towns, #383 of 758 in New York. Household income holds Hyde Park’s grade up ($87,094, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (5.4%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hyde Park could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
The daily commute in and out of Hyde Park
On a workday 8,586 residents head out to work, 1,132 work right here, and 4,026 people come in from elsewhere.
About 17,000 people are in Hyde Park on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
Commuting out of Hyde Park: the destinations
Where Hyde Park clocks in
14% of workers
14% of workers
8% 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.
Most jobs in Hyde Park are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hyde Park, 2013 → 2023: 4,728 → 5,158. 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 Hyde Park’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Hyde Park: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hyde Park workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 7,995 commuters (the 13% 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.
How many miles Hyde Park commutes
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 Hyde Park, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hyde Park is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns, #359 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.1% 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 9,216 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 13% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 6% 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). 7.9% of Hyde Park households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Hyde Park’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Hyde Park is 1,110th among 1,787 U.S. towns of 15,000 to 29,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Wolf Trap VA | 15,858 | $250K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Floral Park NY | 16,105 | $150K | 3.0% | 3.1% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 71 | Garden City NY | 23,043 | $244K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 81 | Victor NY | 16,422 | $116K | 2.8% | 1.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,108 | Brigham City UT | 20,633 | $71K | 11.2% | 2.9% | 22% | B− |
| 1,109 | Barnegat Township NJ | 26,151 | $92K | 7.5% | 6.6% | 7% | B− |
| 1,110 | Hyde Park NY | 21,394 | $87K | 9.5% | 5.4% | 12% | B− |
| 1,111 | Port Wentworth GA | 17,604 | $80K | 11.2% | 5.1% | 4% | B− |
| 1,112 | Madison Township OH | 18,468 | $74K | 8.2% | 4.4% | 11% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,787 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Hyde Park, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Work next door: 20% of Hyde Park’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hyde Park workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hyde Park | – | B− | B+ | 29 min | $87,094 |
| Clinton | under 2% | A− | B+ | 36 min | $125,685 |
| Esopus | under 2% | B− | B− | 27 min | $88,837 |
| Poughkeepsie | 14% | B+ | A | 27 min | $97,724 |
| Lloyd | under 2% | B+ | B | 31 min | $92,220 |
| Rhinebeck | 4% | B− | A | 29 min | $93,284 |
| Pleasant Valley | 2% | B+ | B− | 33 min | $101,731 |
| Highland | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Highland: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Poughkeepsie. Darker towns draw more of Hyde Park’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 Hyde Park: questions
What is the median household income in Hyde Park?
$87,094 (±$7,640) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hyde Park?
9.5%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hyde Park?
29 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hyde Park work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Poughkeepsie (14%, 10 mi), New York City (14%, 80 mi), Poughkeepsie (8%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hyde Park walkable?
Hyde Park is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.6 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hyde Park without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 6% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hyde Park, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hyde Park
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.