St. Johnsville has lower household incomes than 91% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income St. Johnsville is better than 3% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (B+). The poverty rate is 27.7%, where New York as a whole has 14.0%. About one in ten work in St. Johnsville; the top destination outside it is St. Johnsville (11%, 0 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
St. Johnsville and work: the main findings
Commutes from St. Johnsville are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 92 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Fewer jobs are based in St. Johnsville than ten years ago
Jobs counted in St. Johnsville fell from 519 in 2014 to 389 in 2024, −25%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 590 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind St. Johnsville’s Jobs & income grade
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides St. Johnsville’s grade.
Unemployment (7.0%) is left out: St. Johnsville’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, St. Johnsville could be anywhere from D− to D.
The daily trip from St. Johnsville: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of St. Johnsville workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 595 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.
Inside St. Johnsville’s 389 jobs
389 jobs are based in St. Johnsville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in St. Johnsville, 2014 → 2024: 519 → 389. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs St. Johnsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in St. Johnsville by day
On a workday 534 residents head out to work, 56 work right here, and 333 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in St. Johnsville on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.66 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 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting out of St. Johnsville: the destinations
Where St. Johnsville clocks in
6% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from St. Johnsville
About 25% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Getting around St. Johnsville: mostly by car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 11.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 6.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 657 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). 21.7% of St. Johnsville households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of St. Johnsville’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300, and where St. Johnsville sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,406 | Campbell MO | 1,489 | $50K | 30.7% | 8.4% | 13% | D− |
| 5,407 | Hatch NM | 1,584 | $43K | 19.0% | 9.9% | 19% | D− |
| 5,408 | St. Johnsville NY | 1,706 | $47K | 27.7% | 7.0% | 9% | D− |
| 5,409 | Union City OH | 1,567 | $32K | 38.3% | 13.7% | 3% | D− |
| 5,410 | Linden TX | 1,809 | $44K | 32.1% | 5.8% | 16% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 St. Johnsville, 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 2024, 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 St. Johnsville: questions
What is the median household income in St. Johnsville?
$47,109 (±$9,308) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in St. Johnsville?
27.7%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from St. Johnsville?
21 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 St. Johnsville work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Johnsville (11%, 0 mi), Johnstown (6%, 15 mi), Colonie (6%, 48 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is St. Johnsville walkable?
St. Johnsville is more walkable than 70% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 12% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around St. Johnsville without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 22% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from St. Johnsville, from the people who make the trip.
More of St. Johnsville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.