Photo: Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 3.0Ossining has 0.5 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Ossining has 5,419 jobs, against 10,923 working residents. For jobs and income Ossining is better than 71% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is among the most walkable U.S. towns (A+). Household incomes here are higher than in 80% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Ossining, in a few figures
What’s behind Ossining’s Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Ossining’s grade up (ahead of 93% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (6.0%, U.S. 5.2%). 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, Ossining could be anywhere from B to A.
29% of working residents work in New York City
Where Ossining clocks in
29% of workers
12% 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.
Ossining on a workday afternoon
On a workday 9,951 residents head out to work, 972 work right here, and 4,447 people come in from elsewhere.
About 22,000 people are in Ossining on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Ossining
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ossining, 2013 → 2023: 5,687 → 5,419. 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 Ossining’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Ossining takes about 36 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ossining workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 11,209 commuters (the 15% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Ossining
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.
Ossining is among the most walkable U.S. towns
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ossining is among the most walkable U.S. towns, #58 of 758 in New York. Both inputs place Ossining 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 13,147 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 51% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 12.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 95% 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). 12.5% of Ossining households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 17% of Ossining’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Ossining is 711th among 1,509 U.S. towns of 19,000 to 37,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mountain Brook AL | 21,661 | $201K | 3.2% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Lake Forest IL | 19,731 | $235K | 3.5% | 1.8% | 12% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Eastchester NY | 34,015 | $156K | 4.8% | 2.6% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 54 | Garden City NY | 23,043 | $244K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 92 | Mineola NY | 21,376 | $138K | 5.3% | 3.2% | 9% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 709 | Norcross GA | 19,086 | $75K | 15.2% | 2.2% | 6% | B+ |
| 710 | Holland MI | 35,372 | $76K | 10.3% | 2.5% | 27% | B+ |
| 711 | Ossining NY | 27,579 | $104K | 8.6% | 6.0% | 9% | B+ |
| 712 | Caseyville Township IL | 34,825 | $87K | 7.4% | 5.0% | 12% | B+ |
| 713 | Schererville IN | 29,825 | $89K | 7.7% | 5.1% | 8% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,509 | Nogales AZ | 19,495 | $43K | 28.0% | 15.7% | 37% | 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 Ossining, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Around Ossining: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Cortlandt (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ossining workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ossining | – | B+ | A+ | 36 min | $103,573 |
| Briarcliff Manor | under 2% | A | A+ | 37 min | $229,732 |
| Croton-on-Hudson | under 2% | A− | A+ | 45 min | $191,678 |
| Cortlandt | 3% | B+ | A+ | 38 min | $140,030 |
| Clarkstown | under 2% | A− | A | 32 min | $136,883 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Ossining’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 Ossining: questions
What is the median household income in Ossining?
$103,573 (±$16,885) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ossining?
8.6%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ossining?
36 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ossining work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (29%, 34 mi), Ossining (12%, 1 mi), Mount Pleasant (7%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Ossining walkable?
Ossining is among the most walkable U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 14.0 out of 20, and 19% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ossining without a car?
17% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. 51% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ossining, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ossining
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.