Photo: Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 4.0Plattekill has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Employers in Plattekill report 1,000 jobs, and 4,154 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Plattekill are B+ for jobs and income and C for walkability. Measured by household income, Plattekill is ahead of 79% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Plattekill and work: the main findings
Plattekill’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Plattekill is New York City, 69 miles away as the crow flies. 14% of working residents (571) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Plattekill
64% of Plattekill residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 38% of the jobs based in Plattekill pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 95% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Plattekill is a place people come home to
There are 1,000 jobs based in Plattekill, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Plattekill has about 7,200 people in it, 31% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Many jobs in Plattekill pay little
28% of the jobs based in Plattekill pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 35% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. 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 Plattekill’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Plattekill is better than 72% of U.S. towns, #236 of 758 in New York. The poverty rate holds Plattekill’s grade up (4.3%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (5.4%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Plattekill could be anywhere from B− to A.
Short hops and long hauls from Plattekill
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.
What Plattekill’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Plattekill, 2013 → 2023: 803 → 1,000. 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 Plattekill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in Plattekill, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 3,941 residents head out to work, 213 work right here, and 787 people come in from elsewhere.
About 7,200 people are in Plattekill on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
14% of working residents work in New York City
Where Plattekill clocks in
14% of workers
6% 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.
Each way, about 32 minutes from Plattekill
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Plattekill workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,016 commuters (the 12% 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.
Driving is how Plattekill gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Plattekill is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns, #653 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,571 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). 6.6% of Plattekill households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Plattekill’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,095th of 2,878: where Plattekill ranks among U.S. towns of 7,000 to 14,000
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,093 | Turkey Creek Township IN | 8,658 | $76K | 8.0% | 1.0% | 17% | B+ |
| 1,094 | Columbia Township MI | 7,515 | $86K | 7.5% | 1.1% | 10% | B+ |
| 1,095 | Plattekill NY | 10,336 | $103K | 4.3% | 5.4% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,096 | Satellite Beach FL | 11,365 | $119K | 4.1% | 5.8% | 6% | B+ |
| 1,097 | Haledon NJ | 9,125 | $96K | 8.5% | 6.1% | 3% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Plattekill, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
How Plattekill compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Newburgh (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Plattekill workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plattekill | – | B+ | C | 32 min | $103,045 |
| Lloyd | 3% | B+ | B | 31 min | $92,220 |
| Newburgh | 5% | — | — | 37 min | — |
| Gardiner | under 4% | B+ | B | 32 min | $115,234 |
| Shawangunk | under 4% | B− | C | 35 min | $109,536 |
| Marlborough | under 4% | B+ | B | 32 min | $106,627 |
Same-state neighbors only. Newburgh: the same community as the city of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Plattekill’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 Plattekill: questions
What is the median household income in Plattekill?
$103,045 (±$27,073) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Plattekill?
4.3%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Plattekill?
32 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Plattekill work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (14%, 69 mi), Poughkeepsie (6%, 8 mi), Newburgh (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Plattekill walkable?
Plattekill is more walkable than 29% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Plattekill without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Plattekill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Plattekill
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.