Loomis Family Farm · Photo: Slanles · CC BY-SA 4.0Smithville has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Employers in Smithville report 46 jobs for 559 working residents. Jobs and income earn Smithville C−; getting around on foot earns it D. Home is the office for 4% of workers, next to 15% for New York as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Smithville, in brief
Smithville is a place people come home to
There are 46 jobs based in Smithville, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Smithville has about 720 people in it, 42% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Smithville and Greene trade workers both ways
Greene is the top workplace for Smithville residents (22%) and also where the most people who work in Smithville come from (26% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Smithville workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 15% across New York. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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; with 559 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Smithville
On income, poverty and job access, Smithville is better than 24% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Smithville’s grade up (11.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (7.8%) is left out: Smithville’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, Smithville could be anywhere from D to C+.
Who leaves Smithville for work, and who comes in
On a workday 556 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 43 people come in from elsewhere.
About 720 people are in Smithville on a workday afternoon, 42% 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.
22% of working residents work in Greene
Where Smithville clocks in
22% 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.
Getting to work from Smithville takes about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Smithville workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 724 commuters (the 4% 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.
The kinds of work in Smithville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Smithville, 2013 → 2023: 93 → 46. 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 Smithville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Smithville works
About 19% 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 Smithville, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Smithville is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.2% 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 757 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). 4.1% of Smithville households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Smithville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Smithville is 3,091st of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,089 | Tennessee Ridge TN | 1,341 | $74K | 12.2% | 4.0% | 4% | C− |
| 3,090 | Brownsboro TX | 1,322 | $62K | 15.4% | 3.2% | 11% | C− |
| 3,091 | Smithville NY | 1,229 | $70K | 11.2% | 7.8% | 1% | C− |
| 3,092 | Middlebury Township OH | 1,437 | $66K | 16.9% | 0.0% | 4% | C− |
| 3,093 | Richland Township OH | 1,217 | $50K | 5.6% | 4.5% | 3% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Smithville, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Smithville and its neighbors: 26% work next door
The biggest share goes to Greene (22%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Smithville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smithville | – | C− | D | 29 min | $70,433 |
| Greene | 22% | C+ | B− | 23 min | $73,481 |
| McDonough | under 2% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| Oxford | 4% | D | B− | 24 min | $61,168 |
| Triangle | under 2% | D | B− | 29 min | $71,875 |
| Willet | under 2% | — | — | 37 min | — |
| German | under 2% | — | — | 43 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. McDonough, Willet and German: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Smithville’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 Smithville: questions
What is the median household income in Smithville?
$70,433 (±$6,988) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Smithville?
11.2%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Smithville?
29 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Smithville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Greene (22%, 7 mi), Binghamton (9%, 23 mi), Norwich (7%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Smithville walkable?
Smithville is more walkable than 9% 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 Smithville 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 Smithville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Smithville
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.