Photo: Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 4.0Mount Hope has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Only 3% work in Mount Hope; the top destination outside it is New York City (16%, 63 miles). Employers in Mount Hope report 826 jobs, against 2,723 working residents. For jobs and income Mount Hope is better than 80% of U.S. towns (A−); for walkability it is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (C−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Mount Hope and work: the main findings
Mount Hope’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Mount Hope is New York City, 63 miles away as the crow flies. 16% of working residents (448) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Mount Hope workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 40 minutes each way, against 33 across New York. Over a year that’s about 307 hours of commuting, 54 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Mount Hope is a place people come home to
There are 826 jobs based in Mount Hope, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Mount Hope has about 4,600 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Most jobs in Mount Hope pay over $40,000 a year
73% of the jobs based in Mount Hope pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), the top earnings band in the Census data. 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.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Mount Hope
Unemployment holds Mount Hope’s grade up (1.7%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 43% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mount Hope could be anywhere from B to A.
Miles to work from Mount Hope
About 31% 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.
About 40 minutes each way, longer than most of New York
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mount Hope workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,339 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.
The daily flow of workers through Mount Hope
On a workday 2,629 residents head out to work, 94 work right here, and 732 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,600 people are in Mount Hope on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Mount Hope
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mount Hope, 2013 → 2023: 1,065 → 826. 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 Mount Hope’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Mount Hope goes to work
Where Mount Hope clocks in
16% of workers
13% 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.
In Mount Hope, the car does most of the work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 4.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,585 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 0.2 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 43% 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). 3.1% of Mount Hope households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Mount Hope’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Mount Hope is 801st among 3,351 U.S. towns of 4,500 to 8,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Lawrence NY | 6,847 | $170K | 3.5% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Irvington NY | 6,533 | $173K | 1.6% | 2.1% | 6% | A+ |
| 15 | Kings Point NY | 5,710 | $211K | 0.9% | 2.4% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 799 | Montebello NY | 4,828 | $134K | 11.2% | 4.1% | 2% | A− |
| 800 | Westbrook CT | 6,918 | $91K | 7.0% | 2.4% | 12% | A− |
| 801 | Mount Hope NY | 6,487 | $91K | 5.1% | 1.7% | 3% | A− |
| 802 | Mayflower Village CA | 4,950 | $105K | 8.4% | 4.6% | 2% | A− |
| 803 | Apple Valley OH | 5,548 | $101K | 3.9% | 1.0% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,351 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Mount Hope, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Next door is work for 20% of Mount Hope
The biggest share goes to Wallkill (13%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mount Hope workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Hope | – | A− | C− | 40 min | $91,475 |
| Mamakating | under 2% | C+ | C | 34 min | $90,631 |
| Deerpark | 3% | C | C | 32 min | $73,081 |
| Wallkill | 13% | B− | A− | 31 min | $96,076 |
| Wawayanda | 4% | B+ | C | 34 min | $143,017 |
| Greenville | under 2% | A− | D− | 38 min | $122,521 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Mount Hope’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 Mount Hope: questions
What is the median household income in Mount Hope?
$91,475 (±$16,448) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mount Hope?
5.1%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mount Hope?
40 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 Mount Hope work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (16%, 63 mi), Wallkill (13%, 7 mi), Goshen (7%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mount Hope walkable?
Mount Hope is more walkable than 22% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mount Hope without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mount Hope, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mount Hope
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.