With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Lebanon works elsewhere
Lebanon has 148 jobs, against 546 working residents. The two grades for Lebanon are D for jobs and income and B− for walkability. For 7% of workers, the job is at home, where New York as a whole has 15%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Lebanon
Lebanon is a place people come home to
There are 148 jobs based in Lebanon, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Lebanon has about 930 people in it, 30% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Lebanon are quick
The average trip to work takes 24 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 69 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 546 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Lebanon
On income, poverty and job access, Lebanon is better than 9% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Lebanon’s grade up ($67,212, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (24.2%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (19.3%) is left out: Lebanon’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, Lebanon could be anywhere from D− to C−.
The workday shuffle in and out of Lebanon
On a workday 536 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 138 people come in from elsewhere.
About 930 people are in Lebanon on a workday afternoon, 30% 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 2024, primary jobs.
The daily trip from Lebanon: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lebanon workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 436 commuters (the 7% 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.
8% of working residents work in Hamilton
Where Lebanon clocks in
7% 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.
Goods, not services: 47% of the jobs in Lebanon
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lebanon, 2014 → 2024: 65 → 148. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lebanon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Lebanon
About 18% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Lebanon is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lebanon is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 9.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 4.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 468 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). 5.1% of Lebanon households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lebanon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Lebanon is 4,545th among 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | 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% | 2% | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,543 | De Kalb TX | 1,455 | $50K | 18.8% | 3.8% | 16% | D |
| 4,544 | Fork Township MI | 1,700 | $56K | 14.7% | 7.7% | 4% | D |
| 4,545 | Lebanon NY | 1,328 | $67K | 24.2% | 19.3% | 2% | D |
| 4,546 | Bethlehem Township OH | 1,083 | $64K | 25.0% | 1.8% | 1% | D |
| 4,547 | Adwolf VA | 1,046 | $44K | 15.0% | 0.0% | <1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Lebanon, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Next door is work for 11% of Lebanon
The biggest share goes to Hamilton (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lebanon workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lebanon | – | D | B− | 24 min | $67,212 |
| Eaton | 3% | C− | A− | 20 min | $53,281 |
| Georgetown | under 3% | — | — | 41 min | — |
| Smyrna | under 3% | D | B− | 22 min | $59,408 |
| Hamilton | 8% | B− | A− | 18 min | $75,398 |
| Hamilton | under 3% | C+ | A | 15 min | $66,750 |
Same-state neighbors only. Georgetown: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Lebanon’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 2024, 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 Lebanon: questions
What is the median household income in Lebanon?
$67,212 (±$9,026) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lebanon?
24.2%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lebanon?
24 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lebanon work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hamilton (8%, 7 mi), DeRuyter (7%, 11 mi), Syracuse (7%, 32 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Lebanon walkable?
Lebanon is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lebanon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lebanon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lebanon
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.