Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Marshall has lower unemployment (0.4%) than 98% of U.S. towns
Measured by household income, Marshall is ahead of 78% of U.S. towns. Jobs and income earn Marshall A−; getting around on foot earns it C+. Commuters spend 21 minutes getting to work on average, next to 33 for New York and 26 for the U.S.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Marshall: the figures worth knowing
Income, poverty and work: Marshall’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Marshall is better than 81% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Marshall’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 41% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Marshall could be anywhere from B to A.
How long Marshall spends getting to work: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Marshall workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 988 commuters (the 10% 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 workday shuffle in and out of Marshall
On a workday 888 residents head out to work, 71 work right here, and 252 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Marshall on a workday afternoon, 33% fewer than live here.
0.34 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.
13% of working residents work in New Hartford
Where Marshall clocks in
13% of workers
10% of workers
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.
30% of the jobs in Marshall make or build things
323 jobs are based in Marshall.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Marshall, 2013 → 2023: 219 → 323. 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 Marshall’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Marshall to work
About 16% 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.
In Marshall, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Marshall is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,099 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). 3.3% of Marshall households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Marshall’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,600, Marshall ranks 688th of 5,921 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 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 686 | Union Township IN | 1,877 | $89K | 6.6% | 2.9% | 4% | A− |
| 687 | High Prairie Township KS | 2,135 | $103K | 8.5% | 2.4% | 2% | A− |
| 688 | Marshall NY | 1,910 | $101K | 6.9% | 0.4% | 7% | A− |
| 689 | Croom MD | 2,418 | $188K | 3.1% | 8.5% | 1% | A− |
| 690 | Port Byron IL | 1,638 | $112K | 7.3% | 2.9% | 4% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,921 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Marshall, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Next door is work for 13% of Marshall
The biggest share goes to Sangerfield (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Marshall workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marshall | – | A− | C+ | 21 min | $101,250 |
| Augusta | under 3% | C− | C | 27 min | $57,852 |
| Sangerfield | 7% | B+ | B+ | 24 min | $91,563 |
| Kirkland | 6% | B+ | A | 18 min | $82,926 |
| Paris | under 3% | A− | D | 21 min | $93,491 |
| Oriskany Falls | under 3% | — | — | 32 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Oriskany Falls: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Marshall’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 Marshall: questions
What is the median household income in Marshall?
$101,250 (±$31,720) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Marshall?
6.9%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Marshall?
21 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Marshall work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New Hartford (13%, 8 mi), Utica (10%, 12 mi), Sangerfield (7%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Marshall walkable?
Marshall is more walkable than 41% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Marshall without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Marshall, from the people who make the trip.
More of Marshall
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.