Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 4.0Mooers has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Only 5% work in Mooers; the top destination outside it is Plattsburgh (20%, 21 miles). Mooers has 264 jobs, and 1,374 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Mooers C; getting around on foot earns it C.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Mooers apart on work
Commutes from Mooers are quick
The average trip to work takes 24 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 69 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Mooers is a place people come home to
There are 264 jobs based in Mooers, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Mooers has about 2,300 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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.
Income, poverty and work: Mooers’ grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Mooers is better than 31% of U.S. towns, #574 of 758 in New York. Unemployment holds Mooers’ grade up (3.3%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mooers could be anywhere from D to B+.
Getting to work from Mooers takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mooers workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,425 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.
How many people are in Mooers by day
On a workday 1,306 residents head out to work, 68 work right here, and 196 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,300 people are in Mooers on a workday afternoon, 32% 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.
Out of Mooers to work: where people go
Where Mooers clocks in
20% of workers
16% of workers
15% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 47% of the jobs in Mooers
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mooers, 2013 → 2023: 165 → 264. 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 Mooers’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Mooers
About 22% 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.
The commute in Mooers is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mooers is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns, #653 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 2.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,581 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). 11.8% of Mooers households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mooers’ commuters take a bus or train.
Mooers places 3,192nd of 4,535 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 2,400 to 4,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | East Williston NY | 2,616 | $215K | 2.3% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 9 | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,190 | Slaughterville OK | 4,332 | $73K | 13.7% | 6.3% | 2% | C |
| 3,191 | Dilley TX | 3,809 | $63K | 8.6% | 4.2% | 13% | C |
| 3,192 | Mooers NY | 3,449 | $61K | 10.0% | 3.3% | 5% | C |
| 3,193 | Pajaro CA | 2,899 | $85K | 19.3% | 12.1% | 2% | C |
| 3,194 | Skippers Corner NC | 3,792 | $72K | 28.3% | 5.1% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,535 | 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 Mooers, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Bordering towns draw 18% of Mooers’ workers
The biggest share goes to Champlain (15%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mooers workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mooers | – | C | C | 24 min | $61,361 |
| Altona | 3% | D− | D− | 27 min | $51,367 |
| Champlain | 15% | D | C+ | 24 min | $59,866 |
| Clinton | under 2% | — | — | 36 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Clinton: the same community as the town of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Mooers’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 Mooers: questions
What is the median household income in Mooers?
$61,361 (±$17,233) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mooers?
10.0%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mooers?
24 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 Mooers work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Plattsburgh (20%, 21 mi), Plattsburgh (16%, 20 mi), Champlain (15%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mooers walkable?
Mooers is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 2.8 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mooers without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mooers, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mooers
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.