Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, The · Photo: karel.teifer · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Thurman works elsewhere
Measured by household income, Thurman is behind 76% of U.S. towns. Thurman has 62 jobs, and 470 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Thurman are D for jobs and income and D− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Thurman, in a few figures
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Thurman
On income, poverty and job access, Thurman is better than 7% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Thurman’s grade up ($58,750, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 6% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.5%) is left out: Thurman’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, Thurman could be anywhere from D− to C−.
Who works in Thurman, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 456 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 48 people come in from elsewhere.
About 680 people are in Thurman on a workday afternoon, 37% 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.
15% of working residents work in Queensbury
Where Thurman clocks in
15% of workers
10% 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.
What Thurman’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Thurman, 2013 → 2023: 39 → 62. 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 Thurman’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Thurman: about 33 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Thurman workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 316 commuters (the 19% 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.
How many miles Thurman commutes
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.
Most trips from Thurman start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Thurman is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Thurman near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 390 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). 9.3% of Thurman households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Thurman’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,296th of 3,771: where Thurman ranks among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,294 | Rock Port MO | 1,246 | $46K | 13.7% | 1.0% | 28% | D |
| 3,295 | Clintwood VA | 1,297 | $52K | 16.8% | 2.3% | 22% | D |
| 3,296 | Thurman NY | 1,090 | $59K | 19.2% | 5.5% | 3% | D |
| 3,297 | Montgomery VT | 1,225 | $53K | 15.6% | 16.1% | 4% | D |
| 3,298 | Yellville AR | 1,095 | $38K | 15.8% | 6.2% | 15% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Thurman, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
10% of Thurman works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Thurman workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thurman | – | D | D− | 33 min | $58,750 |
| Warrensburg | 10% | C | C+ | 21 min | $60,907 |
| Johnsburg | under 3% | C− | C | 26 min | $60,987 |
| Stony Creek | under 3% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| Chester | under 3% | B− | C+ | 24 min | $84,623 |
Same-state neighbors only. Stony Creek: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Warrensburg. Darker towns draw more of Thurman’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 Thurman: questions
What is the median household income in Thurman?
$58,750 (±$14,286) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Thurman?
19.2%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Thurman?
33 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 19% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Thurman work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Queensbury (15%, 18 mi), Warrensburg (10%, 10 mi), Glens Falls (9%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Thurman walkable?
Thurman is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Thurman without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Thurman, from the people who make the trip.
More of Thurman
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.