Photo: Jsderwin at English Wikipedia · Public domainHouseholds in Quogue earn more than those in 68% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 29.5%, next to 14.0% for New York as a whole. Quogue grades C+ for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Home is the office for 25% of workers, where New York as a whole has 15%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Quogue
Quogue’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Quogue is New York City, 71 miles away as the crow flies. 24% of working residents (115) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Quogue is where the jobs are
Quogue has 809 jobs, 1.7 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
41% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 481 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Quogue earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Quogue is better than 42% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Quogue’s grade up ($89,896, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down. It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Quogue’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Quogue could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Miles to work from Quogue
About 41% 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.
Quogue by day and by night
On a workday 452 residents head out to work, 29 work right here, and 780 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,000 people are in Quogue on a workday afternoon, 19% more than live here.
1.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting in to Quogue: where workers come from
Where Quogue clocks in
24% of workers
15% of workers
9% 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.
Making and building: 40% of jobs based in Quogue
809 jobs are based in Quogue.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Quogue, 2013 → 2023: 521 → 809. 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 Quogue’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 19 minutes each way, quicker than most of New York
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Quogue workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 236 commuters (the 25% 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.
Most of Quogue commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Quogue is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 32.9% across New York.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 315 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). 5.1% of Quogue households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Quogue’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,619th of 5,760: where Quogue ranks among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,617 | Van Buren Township OH | 1,523 | $76K | 11.9% | 2.2% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,618 | Bracey VA | 1,242 | $65K | 3.1% | 3.6% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,619 | Quogue NY | 1,703 | $90K | 29.5% | 0.0% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,620 | Entiat WA | 1,576 | $76K | 4.9% | 7.2% | 8% | C+ |
| 2,621 | Chester Township MI | 1,354 | $74K | 5.3% | 10.0% | 3% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | 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 Quogue, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Quogue and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Quogue workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quogue | – | C+ | C+ | 19 min | $89,896 |
| East Quogue | under 3% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Quiogue | under 3% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Westhampton Beach | under 3% | B | A | 28 min | $141,250 |
Same-state neighbors only. East Quogue and Quiogue: Census-designated places inside larger towns, graded as part of them. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Quogue’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 Quogue: questions
What is the median household income in Quogue?
$89,896 (±$32,025) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Quogue?
29.5%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Quogue?
19 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 25% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Quogue work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (24%, 71 mi), Southampton (15%, 8 mi), Brookhaven (9%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Quogue walkable?
Quogue is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 9.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Quogue without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Quogue, from the people who make the trip.
More of Quogue
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.