New Lisbon has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
New Lisbon has 40 jobs, and 448 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for New Lisbon are C+ for jobs and income and C for walkability. 24% of workers work from home; New York has 15%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in New Lisbon
New Lisbon is a place people come home to
There are 40 jobs based in New Lisbon, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday New Lisbon has about 680 people in it, 38% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of New Lisbon works from home
24% of New Lisbon workers work from home, against 15% across New York. Time on the road ↓
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; with 448 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside New Lisbon’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, New Lisbon is better than 38% of U.S. towns. Household income holds New Lisbon’s grade up ($84,750, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 6% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (1.8%) is left out: New Lisbon’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, New Lisbon could be anywhere from C− to B.
In and out of New Lisbon on a workday
On a workday 444 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 36 people come in from elsewhere.
About 680 people are in New Lisbon on a workday afternoon, 38% 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 29 minutes each way, quicker than most of New York
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of New Lisbon workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 398 commuters (the 23% 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.
10% of working residents work in Otsego
Where New Lisbon clocks in
5% 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.
Services make up most of the work in New Lisbon
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in New Lisbon, 2013 → 2023: 56 → 40. 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 New Lisbon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region New Lisbon works
About 27% 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 New Lisbon gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, New Lisbon is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 3.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 520 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). 1.5% of New Lisbon households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of New Lisbon’s commuters take a bus or train.
New Lisbon places 1,727th of 3,771 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Saddle Rock NY | 1,008 | $176K | 0.8% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,725 | Greeley County KS | 1,089 | $81K | 7.0% | 0.0% | 9% | C+ |
| 1,726 | Lyons OR | 1,226 | $92K | 14.7% | 8.8% | 4% | C+ |
| 1,727 | New Lisbon NY | 1,084 | $85K | 8.5% | 1.8% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,728 | Milford PA | 1,142 | $75K | 11.3% | 2.4% | 14% | C+ |
| 1,729 | Carr Township IN | 1,358 | $68K | 6.0% | 1.6% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 New Lisbon, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
New Lisbon and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | New Lisbon workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Lisbon | – | C+ | C | 29 min | $84,750 |
| Laurens | under 3% | C− | C | 26 min | $72,404 |
| Pittsfield | under 3% | D | D− | 24 min | $66,917 |
| Burlington | under 3% | C− | D | 32 min | $66,196 |
| Morris | under 3% | C | C− | 26 min | $76,056 |
| Hartwick | under 3% | C | B | 18 min | $81,196 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of New Lisbon’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 New Lisbon: questions
What is the median household income in New Lisbon?
$84,750 (±$20,327) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in New Lisbon?
8.5%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from New Lisbon?
29 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 24% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in New Lisbon work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Otsego (10%, 13 mi), Edmeston (10%, 9 mi), Oneonta (5%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is New Lisbon walkable?
New Lisbon is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around New Lisbon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from New Lisbon, from the people who make the trip.
More of New Lisbon
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.