Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Sharon’s household incomes are lower than in 61% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 16.2%, where New York as a whole has 14.0%. Sharon grades C− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Only 7% stay in Sharon for work; outside it, Cobleskill is the main destination (17%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Sharon in brief
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Sharon
Household income holds Sharon’s grade up ($68,095, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 15% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.0%) is left out: Sharon’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, Sharon could be anywhere from D to C.
Jobs in Sharon: what the 818 are
818 jobs are based in Sharon.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sharon, 2013 → 2023: 924 → 818. 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 Sharon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Sharon by day
On a workday 544 residents head out to work, 43 work right here, and 775 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Sharon on a workday afternoon, 14% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.39 per resident).
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 people from Sharon work
Where Sharon clocks in
8% of workers
6% 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.
From Sharon, about 30 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sharon workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 671 commuters (the 9% 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 Sharon’s workers travel
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.
Sharon is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Sharon is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 3.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 735 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). 5.3% of Sharon households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sharon’s commuters take a bus or train.
4,298th of 5,760: where Sharon 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,296 | Newcastle Township IN | 1,368 | $49K | 11.7% | 5.8% | 1% | C− |
| 4,297 | Center Township KS | 1,325 | $65K | 11.3% | 0.1% | 42% | C− |
| 4,298 | Sharon NY | 1,693 | $68K | 16.2% | 4.0% | 7% | C− |
| 4,299 | Henderson Township PA | 1,889 | $59K | 13.4% | 4.5% | 4% | C− |
| 4,300 | Davisboro GA | 1,826 | $49K | 9.1% | 9.2% | 1% | 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 Sharon, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Around Sharon: the bordering towns
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Sharon workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sharon | – | C− | C+ | 30 min | $68,095 |
| Seward | under 2% | C | C+ | 37 min | $86,786 |
| Canajoharie | under 2% | B | B− | 25 min | $78,281 |
| Root | under 2% | C+ | C+ | 29 min | $75,771 |
| Carlisle | under 2% | C+ | C− | 31 min | $86,971 |
| Cherry Valley | under 2% | B− | B | 23 min | $92,639 |
| Roseboom | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Roseboom: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Sharon’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 Sharon: questions
What is the median household income in Sharon?
$68,095 (±$10,971) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sharon?
16.2%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sharon?
30 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sharon work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cobleskill (17%, 11 mi), New York City (8%, 150 mi), Schoharie (6%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sharon walkable?
Sharon is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 3.5 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sharon without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sharon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sharon
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.