First Presbyterian Church · Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Household incomes in Starkey are lower than in 81% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Starkey is better than 12% of U.S. towns (D); for walkability it is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (B). Poverty touches 19.7% of residents, next to 14.0% for New York as a whole. About one in seven work in Starkey; the top destination outside it is Milo (16%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Starkey apart
Commutes from Starkey are quick
The average trip to work takes 26 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Starkey makes and builds things
37% of the jobs based in Starkey are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Starkey residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 25%. The jobs ↓
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.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Starkey
Unemployment holds Starkey’s grade up (4.8%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Starkey could be anywhere from D− to C.
Time on the road from Starkey: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Starkey workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,221 commuters (the 15% 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.
In Starkey, 37% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
680 jobs are based in Starkey.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Starkey, 2013 → 2023: 764 → 680. 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 Starkey’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily flow of workers through Starkey
On a workday 948 residents head out to work, 183 work right here, and 497 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,900 people are in Starkey on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.60 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 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Starkey: the destinations
Where Starkey clocks in
4% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Starkey
About 24% 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.
In Starkey, the car does most of the work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.7% 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 1,434 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). 12.2% of Starkey households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Starkey’s commuters take a bus or train.
Starkey places 4,032nd of 4,593 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 2,300 to 4,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | East Williston NY | 2,616 | $215K | 2.3% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 10 | Lloyd Harbor NY | 3,587 | $250K | 2.1% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 49 | Great Neck Estates NY | 3,139 | $238K | 5.7% | 1.7% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,030 | Myrtle Creek OR | 3,481 | $56K | 16.2% | 5.9% | 7% | D |
| 4,031 | Union Township MI | 2,969 | $64K | 15.4% | 9.9% | 6% | D |
| 4,032 | Starkey NY | 3,334 | $55K | 19.7% | 4.8% | 16% | D |
| 4,033 | Ripley Township OH | 2,476 | $64K | 25.0% | 2.8% | 2% | D |
| 4,034 | Monte Alto TX | 2,350 | $30K | 67.1% | 2.5% | 3% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,593 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Starkey, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Next door is work for 19% of Starkey
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Starkey workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starkey | – | D | B | 26 min | $55,064 |
| Milo | 16% | C+ | B+ | 16 min | $62,500 |
| Hector | under 2% | C | D | 27 min | $79,904 |
| Barrington | under 2% | B− | B | 19 min | $90,938 |
| Reading | 3% | B | D | 28 min | $86,131 |
| Lodi | under 2% | C | C+ | 26 min | $78,489 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Milo. Darker towns draw more of Starkey’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 Starkey: questions
What is the median household income in Starkey?
$55,064 (±$6,611) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Starkey?
19.7%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Starkey?
26 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 15% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Starkey work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Milo (16%, 7 mi), Geneva (4%, 24 mi), Dix (4%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Starkey walkable?
Starkey is more walkable than 57% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Starkey without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Starkey, from the people who make the trip.
More of Starkey
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.