New Square has some of the lowest household incomes of any U.S. town
The poverty rate is 58.8%, against 14.0% across New York. Household incomes here are among the lowest in the country. New Square grades C− for jobs and income and A for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in New Square
Commutes from New Square are quick
The average trip to work takes 13 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 153 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
New Square and Ramapo trade workers both ways
Ramapo is the top workplace for New Square residents (49%) and also where the most people who work in New Square come from (64% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
A young workforce
35% of New Square’s working residents are 29 or younger, about one in three. The jobs ↓
Fewer than half of New Square workers earn over $40,000 a year
43% of New Square’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, wherever they work, and 23% earn $1,250 a month or less. 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.
What’s behind New Square’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, New Square is better than 24% of U.S. towns, #624 of 758 in New York. Job access by car holds New Square’s grade up (ahead of 95% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, New Square could be anywhere from C− to C+.
How long New Square spends getting to work: about 13 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of New Square workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,337 commuters (the 8% 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.
49% of working residents work in Ramapo
Where New Square clocks in
49% of workers
21% 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.
What work there is in New Square: 1,791 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in New Square, 2013 → 2023: 1,723 → 1,791. 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 Square’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who commutes out of New Square, and who commutes in
On a workday 2,133 residents head out to work, 581 work right here, and 1,210 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
0.66 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.
Where in the region New Square works
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.
Good to walk, short on transit: New Square
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, New Square is more walkable than 93% of U.S. towns, #132 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 60.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 8.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,534 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 55.4% of New Square households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of New Square’s commuters take a bus or train.
New Square next to U.S. towns of 7,000 to 14,000: 2,374th of 2,878 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 98 | East Rockaway NY | 10,096 | $125K | 2.6% | 3.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 101 | North Castle NY | 12,360 | $208K | 3.8% | 3.1% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 131 | Hastings-on-Hudson NY | 8,440 | $194K | 2.3% | 4.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,372 | Wagoner OK | 8,405 | $58K | 16.1% | 6.1% | 21% | C− |
| 2,373 | Scottsburg IN | 7,478 | $39K | 23.4% | 4.2% | 22% | C− |
| 2,374 | New Square NY | 10,214 | $31K | 58.8% | 5.6% | 21% | C− |
| 2,375 | Weatherford OK | 12,005 | $55K | 20.3% | 6.2% | 42% | C− |
| 2,376 | Guthrie OK | 12,257 | $53K | 19.4% | 5.6% | 23% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,878 | 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 New Square, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Work in the towns next to New Square
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | New Square workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Square | – | C− | A | 13 min | $31,443 |
| Hillcrest | under 1% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| New Hempstead | under 1% | B+ | B | 29 min | $126,165 |
Same-state neighbors only. Hillcrest: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of New Square’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 Square: questions
What is the median household income in New Square?
$31,443 (±$2,845) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in New Square?
58.8%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from New Square?
13 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in New Square work?
21% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ramapo (49%, 4 mi), New York City (21%, 33 mi), Clarkstown (4%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is New Square walkable?
New Square is more walkable than 93% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.8 out of 20, and 61% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around New Square without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 55% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from New Square, from the people who make the trip.
More of New Square
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.