Photo: Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 3.0Kinderhook has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Kinderhook has 157 jobs; 552 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Kinderhook is better than 56% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns (B+). 26% of workers have no commute at all (New York 15%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Kinderhook and work: the main findings
Kinderhook and Kinderhook trade workers both ways
Kinderhook is the top workplace for Kinderhook residents (16%) and also where the most people who work in Kinderhook come from (44% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Kinderhook are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 92 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Kinderhook is a place people come home to
There are 157 jobs based in Kinderhook, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Kinderhook has about 740 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; with 552 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Kinderhook’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
Household income holds Kinderhook’s grade up ($93,250, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down. It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (7.8%) is left out: Kinderhook’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Kinderhook could be anywhere from C− to A−.
16% of working residents work in Kinderhook
Where Kinderhook clocks in
16% of workers
14% of workers
9% 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.
From Kinderhook, about 21 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kinderhook workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 363 commuters (the 26% 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.
Kinderhook quiets down on a workday
On a workday 530 residents head out to work, 22 work right here, and 135 people come in from elsewhere.
About 740 people are in Kinderhook 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.
What Kinderhook’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kinderhook, 2013 → 2023: 185 → 157. 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 Kinderhook’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Kinderhook
About 24% 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.
The commute in Kinderhook is mostly behind the wheel
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 12.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 6.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 493 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). 3.7% of Kinderhook households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Kinderhook’s commuters take a bus or train.
Kinderhook next to U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500: 1,052nd of 3,771 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Saddle Rock NY | 1,008 | $176K | 0.8% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,050 | Lomira WI | 1,107 | $85K | 10.2% | 3.3% | 5% | B |
| 1,051 | Nora Springs IA | 1,316 | $79K | 5.3% | 0.6% | 5% | B |
| 1,052 | Kinderhook NY | 1,134 | $93K | 7.6% | 7.8% | 4% | B |
| 1,053 | Cain Township IN | 1,127 | $84K | 5.3% | 0.7% | 2% | B |
| 1,054 | Owls Head ME | 1,494 | $87K | 5.7% | 3.9% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Kinderhook, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
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 Kinderhook: questions
What is the median household income in Kinderhook?
$93,250 (±$32,339) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kinderhook?
7.6%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kinderhook?
21 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 26% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kinderhook work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kinderhook (16%, 1 mi), Albany (14%, 19 mi), New York City (9%, 120 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Kinderhook walkable?
Kinderhook is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.2 out of 20, and 12% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kinderhook without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kinderhook, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kinderhook
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.