Sternbergh House · Photo: Alanaquinn1 · CC BY-SA 4.0Knox has higher household incomes than 90% of U.S. towns
6.3% of residents are in poverty, next to 14.0% for New York as a whole. The two grades for Knox are B for jobs and income and D− for walkability. Only 1% work in Knox; the top destination outside it is Albany (24%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Knox stands out on work
How Knox earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Knox is better than 64% of U.S. towns, #310 of 758 in New York. Household income holds Knox’s grade up ($124,083, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (5.5%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Knox could be anywhere from B− to A.
Who commutes out of Knox, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,187 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 48 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Knox on a workday afternoon, 43% fewer than live here.
0.05 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.
Where Knox goes to work
Where Knox clocks in
24% of workers
13% of workers
10% 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.
37% of the jobs in Knox make or build things
65 jobs are based in Knox.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Knox, 2013 → 2023: 66 → 65. 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 Knox’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Knox spends getting to work: about 33 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Knox workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,180 commuters (the 18% 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.
Half of Knox commutes less than 16 miles
About 15% 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.
Few in Knox walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Knox is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns, #746 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 2.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,431 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). 0.8% of Knox households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Knox’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,500, Knox ranks 1,556th of 5,083 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Old Brookville NY | 2,098 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | East Williston NY | 2,616 | $215K | 2.3% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 10 | Laurel Hollow NY | 1,949 | $250K | 3.5% | 2.2% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,554 | Midland Township MI | 2,201 | $92K | 4.4% | 5.8% | 2% | B |
| 1,555 | Antrim NH | 2,757 | $87K | 7.6% | 1.9% | 6% | B |
| 1,556 | Knox NY | 2,623 | $124K | 6.3% | 5.5% | 1% | B |
| 1,557 | Germantown NY | 1,890 | $98K | 6.8% | 4.6% | 13% | B |
| 1,558 | Dellona WI | 1,912 | $103K | 8.9% | 2.9% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,083 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Knox, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Next door is work for 13% of Knox
The biggest share goes to Guilderland (10%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Knox workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knox | – | B | D− | 33 min | $124,083 |
| Guilderland | 10% | A | A− | 21 min | $112,273 |
| Wright | under 3% | B− | C− | 33 min | $86,250 |
| Berne | 3% | B | D− | 33 min | $105,219 |
| Duanesburg | under 3% | B | C+ | 30 min | $95,378 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Knox’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 Knox: questions
What is the median household income in Knox?
$124,083 (±$14,313) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Knox?
6.3%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Knox?
33 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Knox work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Albany (24%, 16 mi), Colonie (13%, 17 mi), Guilderland (10%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Knox walkable?
Knox is more walkable than 4% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 2.9 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Knox without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Knox, from the people who make the trip.
More of Knox
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.