Upperville Meeting House · Photo: Immunonuclear · Public domainSmyrna has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Smyrna has 123 jobs for 493 working residents. Jobs and income earn Smyrna D; getting around on foot earns it B−. Only 2% work in Smyrna itself; outside it, Sherburne draws the most (12%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Smyrna apart on work
Smyrna is a place people come home to
There are 123 jobs based in Smyrna, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Smyrna has about 850 people in it, 30% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Smyrna are quick
The average trip to work takes 22 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 84 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. 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 493 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Smyrna’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
The poverty rate holds Smyrna’s grade up (14.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 9% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.1%) is left out: Smyrna’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, Smyrna could be anywhere from D− to C.
Who leaves Smyrna for work, and who comes in
On a workday 485 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 115 people come in from elsewhere.
About 850 people are in Smyrna on a workday afternoon, 30% 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.
Commuting from Smyrna: about 22 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Smyrna workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 561 commuters (the 10% 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.
Out of Smyrna to work: where people go
Where Smyrna 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.
Smyrna works in goods: 84% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Smyrna, 2013 → 2023: 96 → 123. 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 Smyrna’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Smyrna works
About 17% 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 Smyrna, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Smyrna is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 9.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 4.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 620 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). 8.1% of Smyrna households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Smyrna’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,312 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,600, Smyrna comes 3,451st 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,449 | Benton TN | 1,476 | $29K | 22.7% | 10.1% | 7% | D |
| 3,450 | Au Train Township MI | 1,007 | $64K | 14.4% | 10.3% | 8% | D |
| 3,451 | Smyrna NY | 1,216 | $59K | 14.3% | 4.1% | 2% | D |
| 3,452 | Monroe Township OH | 1,045 | $58K | 15.8% | 6.6% | 2% | D |
| 3,453 | Lunenburg VT | 1,266 | $53K | 10.6% | 9.0% | 1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Smyrna, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Smyrna and its neighbors: 14% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Smyrna workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smyrna | – | D | B− | 22 min | $59,408 |
| Plymouth | under 2% | C | D | 25 min | $78,148 |
| Otselic | 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Lebanon | under 2% | D | B− | 24 min | $67,212 |
| Sherburne | 12% | C+ | B− | 22 min | $63,203 |
Same-state neighbors only. Otselic: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Sherburne. Darker towns draw more of Smyrna’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 Smyrna: questions
What is the median household income in Smyrna?
$59,408 (±$9,617) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Smyrna?
14.3%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Smyrna?
22 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Smyrna work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sherburne (12%, 7 mi), Norwich (10%, 12 mi), Hamilton (8%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Smyrna walkable?
Smyrna is more walkable than 55% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.6 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Smyrna without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Smyrna, from the people who make the trip.
More of Smyrna
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.