Household incomes in Middleburgh trail those of 91% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 11.6% of residents, against 14.0% across New York. Middleburgh grades D for jobs and income and B for walkability. About one in seven work in Middleburgh; the top destination outside it is Middleburgh (14%, 2 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Middleburgh stands out on work
The figures behind Middleburgh’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Middleburgh is better than 11% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Middleburgh’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($46,912, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (3.5%) is left out: Middleburgh’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, Middleburgh could be anywhere from D− to C.
The trip to work from Middleburgh: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Middleburgh workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 541 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.
Middleburgh by day and by night
On a workday 315 residents head out to work, 44 work right here, and 398 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.23 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Middleburgh: the destinations
Where Middleburgh clocks in
9% 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.
What the 442 jobs in Middleburgh are
442 jobs are based in Middleburgh.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Middleburgh, 2013 → 2023: 189 → 442. 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 Middleburgh’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Middleburgh commutes less than 23 miles
About 28% 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.
Few in Middleburgh walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Middleburgh is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 6.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 600 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). 6.7% of Middleburgh households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Middleburgh’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Middleburgh ranks: 3,502nd of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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% | 1% | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,500 | Troy Township PA | 1,572 | $63K | 18.2% | 3.3% | 11% | D |
| 3,501 | Bridgeport NE | 1,421 | $60K | 15.5% | 9.3% | 29% | D |
| 3,502 | Middleburgh NY | 1,153 | $47K | 11.6% | 3.5% | 12% | D |
| 3,503 | Blue Creek Township IN | 1,600 | $59K | 26.0% | 3.7% | 1% | D |
| 3,504 | Funny River AK | 1,081 | $68K | 16.7% | 0.0% | — | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Middleburgh, 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 Middleburgh: questions
What is the median household income in Middleburgh?
$46,912 (±$5,108) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Middleburgh?
11.6%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Middleburgh?
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 Middleburgh work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Middleburgh (14%, 2 mi), Cobleskill (9%, 8 mi), Schoharie (9%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Middleburgh walkable?
Middleburgh is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Middleburgh without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Middleburgh, from the people who make the trip.
More of Middleburgh
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.