West Meredith Cemetery · Photo: ErixS · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Meredith works elsewhere
Only 2% stay in Meredith for work; outside it, Delhi is the main destination (18%, 7 miles). 63 jobs are based in Meredith; 553 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Meredith is better than 44% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (C).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Meredith apart on work
Meredith is a place people come home to
There are 63 jobs based in Meredith, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Meredith has about 1,000 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of Meredith works one town over
25% of working residents work in a town that borders Meredith: Delhi (18%), Kortright (4%) and Davenport (3%). Next door ↓
A big share show a job far from home
35% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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; with 553 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Meredith
The poverty rate holds Meredith’s grade up (7.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 9% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.3%) is left out: Meredith’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, Meredith could be anywhere from C− to B.
Who works in Meredith, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 541 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 51 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Meredith on a workday afternoon, 33% 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 2023, primary jobs.
Meredith’s commute, mile by mile
About 35% 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.
Commuting out of Meredith: the destinations
Where Meredith clocks in
18% of workers
8% 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.
Meredith works in goods: 35% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Meredith, 2013 → 2023: 172 → 63. 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 Meredith’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Meredith, about 33 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Meredith workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 567 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 commute in Meredith is mostly behind the wheel
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.2% 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 631 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). 1.9% of Meredith households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Meredith’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Meredith is 2,594th of 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 5 | Saddle Rock NY | 1,008 | $176K | 0.8% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,592 | Crainville IL | 1,507 | $65K | 10.2% | 2.9% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,593 | Clarendon Township MI | 1,182 | $77K | 8.1% | 2.0% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,594 | Meredith NY | 1,498 | $86K | 7.4% | 1.3% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,595 | Greenfield Township PA | 1,777 | $83K | 6.0% | 7.8% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,596 | Northmoreland Township PA | 1,422 | $82K | 14.0% | 4.6% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Meredith, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
25% of Meredith works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
The biggest share goes to Delhi. Darker towns draw more of Meredith’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 Meredith: questions
What is the median household income in Meredith?
$85,938 (±$16,261) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Meredith?
7.4%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Meredith?
33 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 Meredith work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Delhi (18%, 7 mi), New York City (8%, 128 mi), Oneonta (7%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Meredith walkable?
Meredith is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Meredith without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Meredith, from the people who make the trip.
More of Meredith
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.