Salisbury Center Covered Bridge · Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Most of Salisbury commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
40 jobs are based in Salisbury; 748 of its residents have a job. Salisbury grades C− for jobs and income and D− for walkability. Only 1% work in Salisbury; the top destination outside it is Little Falls (11%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Salisbury, in a few figures
Jobs & income in Salisbury: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Salisbury is better than 19% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Salisbury’s grade up ($81,528, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 6% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.4%) is left out: Salisbury’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, Salisbury could be anywhere from D to C+.
Salisbury quiets down on a workday
On a workday 738 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 30 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Salisbury on a workday afternoon, 39% 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 Salisbury’s working residents head each day
Where Salisbury clocks in
11% of workers
10% of workers
8% 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.
In Salisbury, 38% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Salisbury, 2013 → 2023: 47 → 40. 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 Salisbury’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 37 minutes to work from Salisbury
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 11.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Salisbury workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 739 commuters (the 19% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Salisbury
About 29% 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.
Most trips from Salisbury start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Salisbury is near the bottom of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Salisbury 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 909 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). 5.6% of Salisbury households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Salisbury’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Salisbury ranks: 4,113th of 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,111 | Center Township KS | 1,778 | $56K | 8.2% | 1.0% | 52% | C− |
| 4,112 | Inverness Township MI | 2,173 | $56K | 8.7% | 3.6% | 3% | C− |
| 4,113 | Salisbury NY | 1,837 | $82K | 18.1% | 2.4% | 1% | C− |
| 4,114 | Colton NY | 1,483 | $69K | 13.3% | 0.9% | 6% | C− |
| 4,115 | Clayton Township OH | 1,566 | $45K | 10.3% | 0.0% | <1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | 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 Salisbury, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
The towns next door employ 13% of Salisbury
The biggest share goes to Manheim (10%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Salisbury workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salisbury | – | C− | D− | 37 min | $81,528 |
| Stratford | 3% | — | — | 39 min | — |
| Oppenheim | under 3% | C− | D | 28 min | $69,148 |
| Norway | under 3% | — | — | 38 min | — |
| Fairfield | under 3% | C+ | B− | 25 min | $89,875 |
| Manheim | 10% | B− | B | 25 min | $69,527 |
| Morehouse | under 3% | — | — | 33 min | — |
| Ohio | under 3% | — | — | 42 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Stratford, Norway, Morehouse and Ohio: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Salisbury’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 Salisbury: questions
What is the median household income in Salisbury?
$81,528 (±$20,688) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Salisbury?
18.1%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Salisbury?
37 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Salisbury work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Little Falls (11%, 13 mi), Manheim (10%, 11 mi), Herkimer (8%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Salisbury walkable?
Salisbury is near the bottom of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 2.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Salisbury without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Salisbury, from the people who make the trip.
More of Salisbury
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.