Photo: Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Rye Brook are among the highest of any U.S. town
Household incomes here are among the highest in the country. 5.6% of residents are in poverty, where New York as a whole has 14.0%. The two grades for Rye Brook are A for jobs and income and A+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Rye Brook, in brief
Home offices are common in Rye Brook
29% of Rye Brook workers work from home, against 15% across New York. Time on the road ↓
Most jobs here, and most residents’ jobs, pay over $40,000
78% of Rye Brook’s working residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, the top earnings band in the Census data, and so do 75% of the jobs based in Rye Brook. The jobs ↓
Rye Brook is where the jobs are
Rye Brook has 6,226 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Rye Brook and New York City trade workers both ways
New York City is the top workplace for Rye Brook residents (36%) and also where the most people who work in Rye Brook come from (14% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The biggest group of Rye Brook’s workers comes from New York City
858 of the people who work in Rye Brook live in New York City, 29 miles away, more than from any other town. The commute map ↓
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.
How Rye Brook earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Rye Brook is better than 85% of U.S. towns, #112 of 758 in New York. Household income holds Rye Brook’s grade up ($246,944, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (6.2%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Rye Brook could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
A commute of about 33 minutes in Rye Brook
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rye Brook workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,065 commuters (the 29% 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.
Health, schools and offices: most of the jobs in Rye Brook
6,226 jobs are based in Rye Brook.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rye Brook, 2013 → 2023: 6,189 → 6,226. 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 Rye Brook’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Rye Brook
On a workday 3,713 residents head out to work, 238 work right here, and 5,988 people come in from elsewhere.
About 12,000 people are in Rye Brook on a workday afternoon, 23% more than live here.
1.6 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.
The daily trip into Rye Brook
Where Rye Brook clocks in
36% of workers
10% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Rye Brook
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.
In Rye Brook, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Rye Brook is more walkable than 98% of U.S. towns, #79 of 758 in New York. Both inputs place Rye Brook 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 4,319 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 73% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 24% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 5.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 84% 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). 7.3% of Rye Brook households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 15% of Rye Brook’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 7,000 to 13,400, Rye Brook ranks 595th of 2,722 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 94 | East Rockaway NY | 10,096 | $125K | 2.6% | 3.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 97 | North Castle NY | 12,360 | $208K | 3.8% | 3.1% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 126 | Hastings-on-Hudson NY | 8,440 | $194K | 2.3% | 4.1% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 593 | Marvin NC | 7,040 | $250K | 7.6% | 4.0% | 2% | A |
| 594 | Nibley UT | 8,975 | $108K | 1.0% | 3.4% | 5% | A |
| 595 | Rye Brook NY | 9,955 | $247K | 5.6% | 6.2% | 6% | A |
| 596 | Hampstead NH | 9,110 | $112K | 3.8% | 4.0% | 8% | A |
| 597 | Tamalpais-Homestead Valley CA | 12,085 | $243K | 3.3% | 5.9% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 2,722 | 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 Rye Brook, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
22% of Rye Brook works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Rye (10%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Rye Brook workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rye Brook | – | A | A+ | 33 min | $246,944 |
| Rye | 10% | B+ | A+ | 28 min | $108,265 |
| Harrison | under 2% | A | A+ | 29 min | $164,250 |
| Harrison | 4% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Rye | 3% | A | A+ | 40 min | $239,815 |
| North Castle | under 2% | A+ | A | 37 min | $208,156 |
| Port Chester | under 2% | B | A+ | 27 min | $92,222 |
Same-state neighbors only. Harrison: the same community as the village of that name, graded once. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Rye Brook’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 Rye Brook: questions
What is the median household income in Rye Brook?
$246,944 (±$42,250) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rye Brook?
5.6%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rye Brook?
33 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 29% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rye Brook work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (36%, 29 mi), Rye (10%, 2 mi), Greenwich (5%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Rye Brook walkable?
Rye Brook is more walkable than 98% of U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 12.8 out of 20, and 17% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rye Brook without a car?
15% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. 24% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rye Brook, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rye Brook
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.