Fort Plain Historic District (Boundary Increase) · Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0Oppenheim has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Working from home is the commute for 3% of workers, where New York as a whole has 15%. There are 190 jobs in Oppenheim for 665 working residents. Oppenheim grades C− for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Oppenheim, in a few figures
Oppenheim is a place people come home to
There are 190 jobs based in Oppenheim, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Oppenheim has about 1,300 people in it, 27% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Oppenheim than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Oppenheim fell from 303 in 2013 to 190 in 2023, −37%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Few Oppenheim workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 15% across New York. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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 665 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Oppenheim
On income, poverty and job access, Oppenheim is better than 19% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Oppenheim’s grade up ($69,148, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 19% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (8.1%) is left out: Oppenheim’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, Oppenheim could be anywhere from D to C+.
A workday in Oppenheim: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 647 residents head out to work, 18 work right here, and 172 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Oppenheim on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
What Oppenheim’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Oppenheim, 2013 → 2023: 303 → 190. 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 Oppenheim’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 28 minutes in Oppenheim
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Oppenheim workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 663 commuters (the 3% 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.
14% of working residents work in Johnstown
Where Oppenheim clocks in
14% of workers
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.
The distance from Oppenheim to work
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.
In Oppenheim, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Oppenheim is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Oppenheim near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 685 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). 5.9% of Oppenheim households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Oppenheim’s commuters take a bus or train.
Oppenheim is 4,362nd of 6,085 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,360 | Galva IL | 2,383 | $52K | 18.8% | 3.8% | 24% | C− |
| 4,361 | Selma Township MI | 2,267 | $65K | 11.7% | 15.9% | 1% | C− |
| 4,362 | Oppenheim NY | 1,760 | $69K | 15.7% | 8.1% | 3% | C− |
| 4,363 | Grandview OK | 1,251 | $74K | 18.5% | 0.0% | <1% | C− |
| 4,364 | Lewistown IL | 1,962 | $54K | 11.5% | 12.8% | 16% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Oppenheim, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Bordering towns draw 12% of Oppenheim’s workers
The biggest share goes to Manheim (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Oppenheim workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oppenheim | – | C− | D | 28 min | $69,148 |
| Manheim | 5% | B− | B | 25 min | $69,527 |
| Salisbury | under 4% | C− | D− | 37 min | $81,528 |
| St. Johnsville | 4% | D | B+ | 22 min | $54,837 |
| Dolgeville | under 4% | C | A− | 27 min | $67,740 |
| Stratford | 3% | — | — | 39 min | — |
| Ephratah | under 4% | C | D | 32 min | $80,625 |
Same-state neighbors only. Stratford: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Oppenheim’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 Oppenheim: questions
What is the median household income in Oppenheim?
$69,148 (±$13,479) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Oppenheim?
15.7%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Oppenheim?
28 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Oppenheim work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Johnstown (14%, 16 mi), Gloversville (8%, 17 mi), Albany (5%, 53 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Oppenheim walkable?
Oppenheim is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Oppenheim without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Oppenheim, from the people who make the trip.
More of Oppenheim
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.