Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Jackson works elsewhere
Only 4% work in Jackson itself; outside it, White Creek draws the most (8%, 7 miles). Jackson has 78 jobs, against 731 working residents. The two grades for Jackson are C+ for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Jackson, in a few figures
Inside Jackson’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Jackson is better than 38% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Jackson’s grade up (7.5%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 9% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (2.4%) is left out: Jackson’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Jackson could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Jackson by day and by night
On a workday 701 residents head out to work, 30 work right here, and 48 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Jackson on a workday afternoon, 38% 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 Jackson: the destinations
Where Jackson clocks in
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.
Jackson works in goods: 38% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Jackson, 2013 → 2023: 220 → 78. 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 Jackson’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Jackson spends getting to work: about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Jackson workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 710 commuters (the 11% 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 distance from Jackson to work
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.
For most of Jackson, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Jackson is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 3.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 799 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). 3.1% of Jackson households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Jackson’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Jackson ranks: 2,866th of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,864 | Lyons OR | 1,226 | $92K | 14.7% | 8.8% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,865 | Juniata Township MI | 1,546 | $69K | 8.2% | 2.1% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,866 | Jackson NY | 1,701 | $77K | 7.5% | 2.4% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,867 | Quemahoning Township PA | 1,795 | $59K | 6.6% | 2.4% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,868 | Carr Township IN | 1,358 | $68K | 6.0% | 1.6% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Jackson, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
17% of Jackson works in a town next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Jackson workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson | – | C+ | C− | 34 min | $77,375 |
| Salem | 4% | C− | C+ | 29 min | $83,398 |
| Greenwich | 5% | B | C+ | 32 min | $73,537 |
| Cambridge | under 4% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| White Creek | 8% | C | C+ | 35 min | $72,853 |
| Cambridge | under 4% | C− | B− | 33 min | $72,612 |
| Easton | under 4% | A− | C− | 30 min | $85,625 |
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 White Creek. Darker towns draw more of Jackson’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 Jackson: questions
What is the median household income in Jackson?
$77,375 (±$8,227) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Jackson?
7.5%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Jackson?
34 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Jackson work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are White Creek (8%, 7 mi), Greenwich (5%, 7 mi), Bennington (5%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Jackson walkable?
Jackson is more walkable than 20% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 3.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Jackson without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Jackson, from the people who make the trip.
More of Jackson
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.