Dubois-Sarles Octagon · Photo: Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Marlborough commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Household incomes here are higher than in 81% of U.S. towns. There are 2,019 jobs in Marlborough, against 3,870 working residents. For jobs and income Marlborough is better than 65% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (B).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Marlborough: the gist
Marlborough’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
Household income holds Marlborough’s grade up ($106,627, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (10.6%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Marlborough could be anywhere from C+ to A.
How far it is to work from Marlborough
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Marlborough by day and by night
On a workday 3,245 residents head out to work, 625 work right here, and 1,394 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,200 people are in Marlborough on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
12% of working residents work in New York City
Where Marlborough clocks in
12% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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.
Making and building: 28% of jobs based in Marlborough
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Marlborough, 2014 → 2024: 1,800 → 2,019. 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 Marlborough’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 32 minutes in Marlborough
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Marlborough workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,476 commuters (the 15% 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.
Few in Marlborough walk, bike or ride to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 6.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,086 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). 6.7% of Marlborough households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Marlborough’s commuters take a bus or train.
Marlborough next to U.S. towns of 6,300 to 12,200: 1,295th of 2,891 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Braddock VA | 6,536 | $212K | 0.9% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6 | Lawrence NY | 6,847 | $170K | 3.5% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Irvington NY | 6,533 | $173K | 1.6% | 2.1% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 109 | East Rockaway NY | 10,096 | $125K | 2.6% | 3.2% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,293 | Hamilton Township IN | 7,302 | $74K | 9.2% | 1.8% | 6% | B+ |
| 1,294 | Canonsburg PA | 9,529 | $79K | 6.2% | 5.6% | 6% | B+ |
| 1,295 | Marlborough NY | 9,070 | $107K | 10.6% | 4.4% | 16% | B+ |
| 1,296 | Upper Pottsgrove Township PA | 6,356 | $122K | 8.5% | 7.9% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,297 | Commerce GA | 9,303 | $61K | 8.3% | 1.1% | 12% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 2,891 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Marlborough, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Marlborough and its neighbors: 16% work next door
The biggest share goes to Poughkeepsie (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Marlborough workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marlborough | – | B+ | B | 32 min | $106,627 |
| Lloyd | 3% | B+ | B | 31 min | $92,220 |
| Poughkeepsie | 7% | B+ | A | 27 min | $97,724 |
| Newburgh | 6% | — | — | 37 min | — |
| Plattekill | under 3% | B+ | C | 32 min | $103,045 |
| Clintondale | under 3% | — | — | 46 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Newburgh: the same community as the city of that name, graded once. Clintondale: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Marlborough’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 Marlborough: questions
What is the median household income in Marlborough?
$106,627 (±$14,383) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Marlborough?
10.6%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Marlborough?
32 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Marlborough work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (12%, 67 mi), Poughkeepsie (7%, 4 mi), Newburgh (6%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Marlborough walkable?
Marlborough is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Marlborough without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Marlborough, from the people who make the trip.
More of Marlborough
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.