Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church · Photo: Jaredcarter1210 · CC BY-SA 4.0Remsen has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
170 jobs are based in Remsen; 747 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Remsen C; getting around on foot earns it D. Only 3% work in Remsen; the top destination outside it is Utica (15%, 19 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Remsen at work: what stands out
How Remsen earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Remsen is better than 30% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Remsen’s grade up ($71,438, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 25% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.6%) is left out: Remsen’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, Remsen could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Who works in Remsen, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 723 residents head out to work, 24 work right here, and 146 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Remsen on a workday afternoon, 33% 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.
Where the trip to work from Remsen ends
Where Remsen clocks in
15% of workers
10% 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.
Jobs in Remsen: what the 170 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Remsen, 2013 → 2023: 147 → 170. 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 Remsen’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Remsen spends getting to work: about 32 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Remsen workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 711 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.
How far Remsen goes 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.
Driving is how Remsen gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Remsen is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 3.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 809 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). 8.4% of Remsen households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Remsen’s commuters take a bus or train.
Remsen places 3,647th of 6,085 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,645 | Greenwood Township PA | 1,411 | $76K | 11.8% | 3.7% | 7% | C |
| 3,646 | Coudersport PA | 2,281 | $52K | 13.9% | 1.6% | 32% | C |
| 3,647 | Remsen NY | 1,774 | $71K | 12.0% | 1.6% | 3% | C |
| 3,648 | Minonk IL | 1,889 | $69K | 10.3% | 6.9% | 18% | C |
| 3,649 | Lake City IA | 1,640 | $74K | 10.9% | 1.5% | 36% | 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 Remsen, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Next door is work for 12% of Remsen
The biggest share goes to Trenton (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Remsen workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Remsen | – | C | D | 32 min | $71,438 |
| Steuben | under 3% | C− | D− | 28 min | $66,181 |
| Forestport | under 3% | B− | D | 31 min | $72,813 |
| Russia | under 3% | C+ | D | 33 min | $86,116 |
| Trenton | 9% | B+ | C+ | 23 min | $88,807 |
| Boonville | 3% | C | C+ | 29 min | $68,253 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Remsen’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 Remsen: questions
What is the median household income in Remsen?
$71,438 (±$7,670) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Remsen?
12.0%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Remsen?
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 Remsen work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Utica (15%, 19 mi), New Hartford (10%, 22 mi), Trenton (9%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Remsen walkable?
Remsen is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Remsen without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Remsen, from the people who make the trip.
More of Remsen
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.