Montour Falls Union Grammar School · Photo: Dmadeo · CC BY-SA 3.0More people are out of work in Montour (10.2%) than in 95% of U.S. towns
About one in ten stay in Montour for work; outside it, Dix is the main destination (12%, 4 miles). Montour grades D for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. For 6% of workers, the job is at home, next to 15% for New York as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Montour apart on work
Why Montour gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Montour is better than 14% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Montour’s grade up (ahead of 34% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Montour could be anywhere from D to C+.
From Montour, about 18 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Montour workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 929 commuters (the 6% 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 Montour
On a workday 781 residents head out to work, 68 work right here, and 570 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,000 people are in Montour on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.75 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.
Where the trip to work from Montour ends
Where Montour clocks in
9% 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.
The 638 jobs based in Montour
638 jobs are based in Montour.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Montour, 2013 → 2023: 579 → 638. 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 Montour’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Montour works
About 18% 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.
Most trips from Montour start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Montour is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 9.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 6.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 987 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). 17.2% of Montour households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Montour’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Montour is 4,341st among 5,404 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,900
| # | 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| 8 | Village of the Branch NY | 1,764 | $174K | 1.5% | 3.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 9 | Old Brookville NY | 2,098 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,339 | Vassar MI | 2,685 | $59K | 14.8% | 10.9% | 9% | D |
| 4,340 | Maynardville TN | 2,723 | $46K | 21.7% | 6.4% | 9% | D |
| 4,341 | Montour NY | 2,170 | $64K | 16.6% | 10.2% | 8% | D |
| 4,342 | Pine Mountain Club CA | 2,838 | $69K | 10.3% | 9.9% | 6% | D |
| 4,343 | Springerville AZ | 1,719 | $49K | 8.5% | 3.8% | 20% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,404 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Montour, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
The towns next door employ 18% of Montour
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Montour workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montour | – | D | B+ | 18 min | $64,417 |
| Catharine | 4% | D | D | 25 min | $58,500 |
| Dix | 12% | D | A− | 20 min | $53,668 |
| Veteran | under 3% | C+ | D | 23 min | $65,341 |
| Hector | 2% | C | D | 27 min | $79,904 |
| Watkins Glen | under 3% | C− | A | 19 min | $49,632 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Dix. Darker towns draw more of Montour’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 Montour: questions
What is the median household income in Montour?
$64,417 (±$19,141) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Montour?
16.6%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Montour?
18 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Montour work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dix (12%, 4 mi), Horseheads (9%, 13 mi), Ithaca (7%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Montour walkable?
Montour is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.4 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Montour without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 17% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Montour, from the people who make the trip.
More of Montour
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.