Photo: LINYperson615 · CC BY-SA 4.0Kings Point’s household incomes are among the highest in the country
Jobs and income earn Kings Point A+; getting around on foot earns it A+. Measured by household income, Kings Point is among the highest-earning towns in the country. Poverty touches 0.9% of residents, where New York as a whole has 14.0%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Kings Point, in a few figures
More than half of Kings Point works in New York City
1,108 working residents, 57%, have their main job in New York City, 15 miles away. That’s 19 times as many as work in Kings Point itself. The commute map ↓
Kings Point is a place people come home to
There are 575 jobs based in Kings Point, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. 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.
Where Kings Point’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Kings Point is among the top U.S. towns, #5 of 758 in New York. The poverty rate is its strongest input; unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (2.4%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Kings Point could be anywhere from A to A+.
57% of working residents work in New York City
Where Kings Point clocks in
57% 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.
A workday in Kings Point: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 1,880 residents head out to work, 52 work right here, and 523 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,400 people are in Kings Point on a workday afternoon, 24% fewer than live here.
0.30 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Kings Point is a services town
575 jobs are based in Kings Point.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kings Point, 2013 → 2023: 639 → 575. 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 Kings Point’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Kings Point: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kings Point workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,736 commuters (the 22% 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 far Kings Point goes to work
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.
Kings Point is more walkable than 98% of U.S. towns
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,228 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 86% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 12.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 95% 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). 9.4% of Kings Point households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 15% of Kings Point’s commuters take a bus or train.
Kings Point places 16th of 3,476 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 4,000 to 7,700
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Elko New Market MN | 5,300 | $152K | 1.1% | 0.0% | 3% | 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+ |
| 17 | Hickory Creek TX | 6,875 | $149K | 2.6% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| 18 | Fox Point WI | 6,583 | $141K | 2.5% | 0.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | North Hills NY | 5,481 | $173K | 3.0% | 1.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 98 | Pound Ridge NY | 5,057 | $250K | 4.5% | 2.0% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,476 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Kings Point, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Kings Point and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Kings Point workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kings Point | – | A+ | A+ | 30 min | $211,299 |
| Great Neck | under 1% | A− | A+ | 39 min | $137,981 |
| Saddle Rock | under 1% | A+ | A+ | 38 min | $175,625 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Kings Point’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 Kings Point: questions
What is the median household income in Kings Point?
$211,299 (±$36,951) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kings Point?
0.9%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kings Point?
30 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 22% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kings Point work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (57%, 15 mi), North Hempstead (19%, 3 mi), Hempstead (5%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Kings Point walkable?
Kings Point is more walkable than 98% of U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 13.0 out of 20, and 22% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kings Point without a car?
15% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. 86% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kings Point, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kings Point
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.