Photo: Tyler A. McNeil · CC BY 4.0Taghkanic has higher household incomes than 64% of U.S. towns
29% of workers work from home, where New York as a whole has 15%. 5.6% of residents are in poverty; New York has 14.0%. Taghkanic grades B for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Taghkanic, in brief
Fewer jobs are based in Taghkanic than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Taghkanic fell from 840 in 2013 to 409 in 2023, −51%. 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 ↓
Home offices are common in Taghkanic
29% of Taghkanic workers work from home, against 15% across New York. Time on the road ↓
Commutes from Taghkanic are quick
The average trip to work takes 25 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 61 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 526 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Taghkanic gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Taghkanic is better than 56% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Taghkanic’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 22% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (3.7%) is left out: Taghkanic’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, Taghkanic could be anywhere from C to B+.
In Taghkanic, services account for most jobs
409 jobs are based in Taghkanic.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Taghkanic, 2013 → 2023: 840 → 409. 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 Taghkanic’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 25 minutes in Taghkanic
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Taghkanic workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 436 commuters (the 29% 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 and out of Taghkanic on a workday
On a workday 477 residents head out to work, 49 work right here, and 360 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.78 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.
13% of working residents work in Hudson
Where Taghkanic clocks in
13% of workers
11% of workers
5% 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.
Taghkanic’s commute, mile by mile
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.
In Taghkanic, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Taghkanic is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 23.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 3.6.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 611 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). 0.9% of Taghkanic households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 9% of Taghkanic’s commuters take a bus or train.
Taghkanic places 1,373rd of 4,866 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,371 | Egremont MA | 1,369 | $101K | 8.0% | 0.0% | 5% | B |
| 1,372 | Orangeville NY | 1,249 | $86K | 4.8% | 2.9% | 4% | B |
| 1,373 | Taghkanic NY | 1,257 | $86K | 5.6% | 3.7% | 9% | B |
| 1,374 | Raccoon Township IL | 1,481 | $78K | 4.3% | 1.8% | <1% | B |
| 1,375 | Moose Wilson Road WY | 1,535 | $138K | 8.7% | 2.1% | 13% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Taghkanic, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Taghkanic and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Ancram (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Taghkanic workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taghkanic | – | B | B− | 25 min | $86,250 |
| Livingston | under 2% | C− | B | 20 min | $54,024 |
| Gallatin | under 2% | B− | C+ | 30 min | $89,412 |
| Claverack | 2% | B− | B | 28 min | $74,111 |
| Copake | under 2% | C | B+ | 32 min | $113,611 |
| Ancram | 3% | B− | B | 35 min | $99,773 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Taghkanic’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 Taghkanic: questions
What is the median household income in Taghkanic?
$86,250 (±$16,089) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Taghkanic?
5.6%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Taghkanic?
25 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 29% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Taghkanic work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hudson (13%, 10 mi), New York City (11%, 102 mi), Albany (5%, 37 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Taghkanic walkable?
Taghkanic is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 3.6 out of 20, and 24% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Taghkanic without a car?
9% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Taghkanic, from the people who make the trip.
More of Taghkanic
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.