Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0About half of Malone’s working residents commute to Malone
4% of workers work from home (New York 15%). For jobs and income Malone is better than 28% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns (A). About one in three stay in Malone for work; outside it, Malone is the main destination (50%, 5 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Malone, in brief
Commutes from Malone are quick
The average trip to work takes 13 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 153 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
More than half of Malone works in Malone
990 working residents, 50%, have their main job in Malone, 5.2 miles away. That’s more than work in Malone itself. The commute map ↓
Malone is where the jobs are
Malone has 3,882 jobs, 2.0 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Few Malone workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 15% across New York. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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.
Inside Malone’s Jobs & income grade
Unemployment holds Malone’s grade up (2.3%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down (22.2%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Malone could be anywhere from D to B−.
Each way, about 13 minutes from Malone
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Malone workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,540 commuters (the 4% 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 daily trip into Malone
Where Malone clocks in
50% of workers
4% of workers
2% 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.
Malone by day and by night
On a workday 1,298 residents head out to work, 682 work right here, and 3,200 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,200 people are in Malone on a workday afternoon, 36% more than live here.
2.0 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
3,882 jobs are based in Malone.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Malone, 2013 → 2023: 3,767 → 3,882. 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 Malone’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Miles to work from Malone
About 22% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Malone
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 16.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 8.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,657 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). 24.2% of Malone households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 8% of Malone’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Malone is 2,775th of 3,651 U.S. towns of 3,700 to 7,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Lawrence NY | 6,847 | $170K | 3.5% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Irvington NY | 6,533 | $173K | 1.6% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| 21 | Kings Point NY | 5,710 | $211K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,773 | Tecumseh OK | 6,402 | $49K | 16.3% | 3.6% | 9% | C |
| 2,774 | Shamokin PA | 6,764 | $40K | 24.6% | 2.1% | 7% | C |
| 2,775 | Malone NY | 5,315 | $61K | 22.2% | 2.3% | 34% | C |
| 2,776 | Gustine CA | 6,112 | $60K | 4.0% | 11.3% | 14% | C |
| 2,777 | Milton PA | 6,457 | $55K | 15.2% | 5.3% | 16% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,651 | 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 Malone, 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 Malone: questions
What is the median household income in Malone?
$60,548 (±$9,467) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Malone?
22.2%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Malone?
13 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Malone work?
34% work in town.
Is Malone walkable?
Malone is more walkable than 90% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.3 out of 20, and 16% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Malone without a car?
8% of commuters take transit and 24% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Malone, from the people who make the trip.
More of Malone
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.