Montgomery has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs and income earn Montgomery C+; getting around on foot earns it A−. Employers in Montgomery report 851 jobs for 1,692 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 7% of workers, against 15% across New York.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Montgomery apart on work
Jobs in Montgomery have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Montgomery went from 351 in 2013 to 851 in 2023, +142%. The jobs ↓
Montgomery and Montgomery trade workers both ways
Montgomery is the top workplace for Montgomery residents (20%) and also where the most people who work in Montgomery come from (25% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Montgomery
64% of Montgomery residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 45% of the jobs based in Montgomery pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 96% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Montgomery
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Montgomery is better than 42% of U.S. towns, #482 of 758 in New York. Household income holds Montgomery’s grade up ($90,214, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (17.4%, 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, Montgomery could be anywhere from C− to A−.
What Montgomery’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Montgomery, 2013 → 2023: 351 → 851. 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 Montgomery’s own residents hold wherever they work.
20% of working residents work in Montgomery
Where Montgomery clocks in
20% of workers
14% 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.
Montgomery on a workday afternoon
On a workday 1,622 residents head out to work, 70 work right here, and 781 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,900 people are in Montgomery on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
About 32 minutes each way, about the NY average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Montgomery workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,688 commuters (the 7% 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.
How many miles Montgomery commutes
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Montgomery
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Montgomery is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns, #261 of 758 in New York. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 32.9% across New York.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,814 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 52% 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). 9.2% of Montgomery households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Montgomery’s commuters take a bus or train.
Montgomery places 2,628th of 4,430 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 2,600 to 5,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | East Williston NY | 2,616 | $215K | 2.3% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 8 | Lloyd Harbor NY | 3,587 | $250K | 2.1% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Great Neck Estates NY | 3,139 | $238K | 5.7% | 1.7% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,626 | Weathersfield VT | 2,809 | $83K | 8.8% | 4.7% | 9% | C+ |
| 2,627 | Kalaheo HI | 4,435 | $111K | 11.4% | 5.3% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,628 | Montgomery NY | 3,757 | $90K | 17.4% | 6.5% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,629 | Felix Township IL | 4,531 | $71K | 8.6% | 7.5% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,630 | Coarsegold CA | 3,967 | $81K | 6.2% | 4.9% | 10% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,430 | 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 Montgomery, 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 Montgomery: questions
What is the median household income in Montgomery?
$90,214 (±$16,810) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Montgomery?
17.4%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Montgomery?
32 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Montgomery work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Montgomery (20%, 2 mi), New York City (14%, 61 mi), Wallkill (7%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Montgomery walkable?
Montgomery is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 13.4 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Montgomery without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. 52% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Montgomery, from the people who make the trip.
More of Montgomery
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.