Jobs, pay and the trip to work in Sackets Harbor
7% of workers work from home (New York 15%). For jobs and income Sackets Harbor is better than 29% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (C+). About one in ten stay in Sackets Harbor for work; outside it, Watertown is the main destination (33%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Sackets Harbor, in a few figures
What’s behind Sackets Harbor’s Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Sackets Harbor’s grade up ($77,043, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 23% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.1%) is left out: Sackets Harbor’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, Sackets Harbor could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Where the trip to work from Sackets Harbor ends
Where Sackets Harbor clocks in
Lines 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.
Who commutes out of Sackets Harbor, and who commutes in
On a workday 451 residents head out to work, 42 work right here, and 309 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Sackets Harbor on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
0.71 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 2023, primary jobs.
Jobs in Sackets Harbor: what the 351 are
351 jobs are based in Sackets Harbor.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sackets Harbor, 2013 → 2023: 445 → 351. 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 Sackets Harbor’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 29 minutes to work from Sackets Harbor
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sackets Harbor workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 695 commuters (the 7% 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 Sackets Harbor goes to work
About 22% 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.
For most of Sackets Harbor, work means a drive
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 746 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 3.9% of Sackets Harbor households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sackets Harbor’s commuters take a bus or train.
Sackets Harbor places 3,115th of 5,400 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Saddle Rock NY | 1,008 | $176K | 0.8% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,113 | Penn Valley CA | 1,678 | $65K | 9.3% | 0.0% | 4% | C |
| 3,114 | Kaumakani HI | 1,012 | $96K | 14.9% | 2.8% | 1% | C |
| 3,115 | Sackets Harbor NY | 1,337 | $77K | 14.0% | 1.1% | 9% | C |
| 3,116 | Field Township IL | 1,489 | $70K | 10.6% | 3.0% | 1% | C |
| 3,117 | Wayne Township IN | 1,645 | $64K | 12.1% | 4.6% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Sackets Harbor, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
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 Sackets Harbor: questions
What is the median household income in Sackets Harbor?
$77,043 (±$7,719) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sackets Harbor?
14.0%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sackets Harbor?
29 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sackets Harbor work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Watertown (33%, 10 mi), Hounsfield (14%, 10 mi), Watertown (8%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sackets Harbor walkable?
Sackets Harbor is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sackets Harbor without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sackets Harbor, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sackets Harbor
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.