Photo: Enesse Bhé · CC BY-SA 2.0Moriah has lower unemployment (2.2%) than 82% of U.S. towns
The average commute takes 32 minutes each way; New York averages 33, the U.S. 26. Jobs and income earn Moriah C; getting around on foot earns it C+. About one in five work in Moriah; the top destination outside it is Ticonderoga (13%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Moriah, in brief
The figures behind Moriah’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Moriah is better than 30% of U.S. towns, #579 of 758 in New York. Unemployment holds Moriah’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 3% of U.S. towns).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Moriah could be anywhere from D to B−.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
1,069 jobs are based in Moriah.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Moriah, 2013 → 2023: 1,344 → 1,069. 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 Moriah’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Moriah
On a workday 1,413 residents head out to work, 391 work right here, and 678 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,600 people are in Moriah on a workday afternoon, 17% fewer than live here.
0.59 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 Moriah: the destinations
Where Moriah clocks in
13% of workers
9% of workers
4% 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.
About 32 minutes to work from Moriah
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Moriah workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,453 commuters (the 9% 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 far Moriah goes to work
About 23% 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.
Driving is how Moriah gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Moriah is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns, #600 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.5% 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 1,604 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). 11.2% of Moriah households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Moriah’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,039 U.S. towns of 3,000 to 5,800, Moriah comes 2,911th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Lloyd Harbor NY | 3,587 | $250K | 2.1% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Kings Point NY | 5,710 | $211K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | North Hills NY | 5,481 | $173K | 3.0% | 1.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,909 | Williamston SC | 4,338 | $64K | 13.5% | 7.9% | 8% | C |
| 2,910 | Lawrence Township MI | 3,294 | $64K | 19.5% | 4.0% | 11% | C |
| 2,911 | Moriah NY | 4,287 | $63K | 14.5% | 2.2% | 22% | C |
| 2,912 | Fussels Corner FL | 5,682 | $56K | 16.8% | 5.1% | <1% | C |
| 2,913 | Emmetsburg IA | 3,684 | $56K | 15.2% | 2.4% | 43% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,039 | 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 Moriah, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
12% of Moriah works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Elizabethtown (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Moriah workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moriah | – | C | C+ | 32 min | $63,113 |
| North Hudson | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Crown Point | under 2% | C | D | 26 min | $82,813 |
| Westport | 3% | C− | B | 30 min | $71,146 |
| Elizabethtown | 9% | D | B− | 16 min | $57,222 |
Same-state neighbors only. North Hudson: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Moriah’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 Moriah: questions
What is the median household income in Moriah?
$63,113 (±$6,434) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Moriah?
14.5%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Moriah?
32 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Moriah work?
22% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ticonderoga (13%, 16 mi), Elizabethtown (9%, 11 mi), Middlebury (4%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Moriah walkable?
Moriah is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Moriah without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Moriah, from the people who make the trip.
More of Moriah
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.