Yale-Cady Octagon House and Yale Lock Factory Site · Photo: Octavia Graystone · CC BY-SA 3.0Newport has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Newport grades C for jobs and income and C for walkability. There are 425 jobs in Newport, against 823 working residents. Only 8% work in Newport itself; outside it, Utica draws the most (15%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Why Newport gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Newport is better than 32% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Newport’s grade up ($79,727, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (15.0%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (8.2%) is left out: Newport’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, Newport could be anywhere from C− to B.
How many people are in Newport by day
On a workday 760 residents head out to work, 63 work right here, and 362 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Newport on a workday afternoon, 19% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where people from Newport work
Where Newport clocks in
15% of workers
9% of workers
6% 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.
66% of the jobs in Newport pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Newport, 2014 → 2024: 392 → 425. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Newport’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Newport, about 31 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Newport workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 704 commuters (the 7% 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.
Half of Newport commutes less than 14 miles
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Newport, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Newport is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 760 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). 11.1% of Newport households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Newport’s commuters take a bus or train.
Newport next to U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,800: 3,136th of 5,148 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| 8 | Village of the Branch NY | 1,764 | $174K | 1.5% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| 9 | Old Brookville NY | 2,098 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,134 | Plum Grove TX | 1,677 | $66K | 16.9% | 2.7% | 1% | C |
| 3,135 | Esperance NY | 1,805 | $76K | 8.8% | 6.5% | 4% | C |
| 3,136 | Newport NY | 2,091 | $80K | 15.0% | 8.2% | 8% | C |
| 3,137 | Ben Avon SC | 2,487 | $47K | 20.3% | 3.5% | 1% | C |
| 3,138 | Hillsboro KS | 2,646 | $63K | 9.0% | 4.3% | 36% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,148 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Newport, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Around Newport: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Herkimer (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Newport workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newport | – | C | C | 31 min | $79,727 |
| Fairfield | under 3% | C+ | B− | 25 min | $89,875 |
| Russia | under 3% | C+ | D | 33 min | $86,116 |
| Norway | under 3% | — | — | 38 min | — |
| Schuyler | under 3% | C+ | D | 21 min | $65,469 |
| Herkimer | 9% | C− | A− | 22 min | $56,287 |
Same-state neighbors only. Norway: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Newport’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 2024, 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 Newport: questions
What is the median household income in Newport?
$79,727 (±$11,665) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Newport?
15.0%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Newport?
31 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Newport work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Utica (15%, 11 mi), Herkimer (9%, 8 mi), New Hartford (6%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Newport walkable?
Newport is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Newport 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 Newport, from the people who make the trip.
More of Newport
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.