Oblong Friends Meetinghouse · Photo: Rolf Müller (User:Rolfmueller) · CC BY-SA 3.0Pawling’s household incomes are higher than in 88% of U.S. towns
4.0% of residents live below the poverty line, against 14.0% across New York. The two grades for Pawling are A− for jobs and income and B+ for walkability. About one in five work in Pawling; the top destination outside it is New York City (17%, 65 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Pawling, in a few figures
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Pawling
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Pawling is better than 82% of U.S. towns, #141 of 758 in New York. Household income is its strongest input ($120,592, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 53% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Pawling could be anywhere from B+ to A.
How far Pawling’s workers travel
About 28% 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.
Who leaves Pawling for work, and who comes in
On a workday 2,506 residents head out to work, 525 work right here, and 1,367 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,200 people are in Pawling on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.62 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 2024, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Pawling’s residents
Where Pawling clocks in
17% 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 Pawling: 1,892 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pawling, 2014 → 2024: 1,973 → 1,892. 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 Pawling’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Pawling: about 37 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pawling workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,160 commuters (the 16% 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.
Few in Pawling walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pawling is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns, #378 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 6.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,768 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 13% 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 0.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 45% 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). 5.8% of Pawling households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 3% of Pawling’s commuters take a bus or train.
732nd of 3,012: where Pawling ranks among U.S. towns of 5,800 to 11,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Lawrence NY | 6,847 | $170K | 3.5% | 3.9% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Irvington NY | 6,533 | $173K | 1.6% | 2.1% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 112 | East Rockaway NY | 10,096 | $125K | 2.6% | 3.2% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 730 | Gibsonville NC | 9,876 | $96K | 5.8% | 3.3% | 2% | A− |
| 731 | Maywood NJ | 10,166 | $118K | 3.9% | 8.1% | 5% | A− |
| 732 | Pawling NY | 8,316 | $121K | 4.0% | 3.7% | 17% | A− |
| 733 | Lake Lorraine FL | 6,903 | $104K | 6.6% | 2.1% | 4% | A− |
| 734 | Lauderdale-by-the-Sea FL | 6,280 | $82K | 6.7% | 3.1% | 6% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,012 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Pawling, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Next door to Pawling
The biggest share goes to Patterson (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Pawling workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pawling | – | A− | B+ | 37 min | $120,592 |
| Beekman | under 2% | B+ | B− | 38 min | $126,250 |
| Patterson | 3% | C+ | A− | 37 min | $102,149 |
| Dover | 2% | C+ | B | 34 min | $91,803 |
| East Fishkill | 2% | A− | B− | 36 min | $138,543 |
| Kent | 2% | A− | B+ | 39 min | $129,012 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Pawling’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 Pawling: questions
What is the median household income in Pawling?
$120,592 (±$16,181) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pawling?
4.0%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pawling?
37 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pawling work?
17% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (17%, 65 mi), Southeast (5%, 11 mi), Carmel (4%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Pawling walkable?
Pawling is more walkable than 69% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pawling without a car?
3% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pawling, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pawling
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.