Photo: Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 3.0Tivoli has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Employers in Tivoli report 145 jobs for 446 working residents. Tivoli grades C for jobs and income and A− for walkability. Household incomes here are lower than in 84% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Tivoli, in brief
Tivoli and Red Hook trade workers both ways
Red Hook is the top workplace for Tivoli residents (35%) and also where the most people who work in Tivoli come from (27% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Tivoli are quick
The average trip to work takes 23 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 77 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
32% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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 446 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Tivoli earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Tivoli is better than 26% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Tivoli’s grade up (11.4%, U.S. 11.9%); household income pulls it down ($53,177, U.S. $80,734).
24% of Tivoli’s residents are college students, and off-campus students count in the Census poverty figures. Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (25% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 11.4%, against 30.1% for all residents. Unemployment (5.9%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Household income is not adjusted: student households count in the median.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Tivoli could be anywhere from D to B+.
35% of working residents work in Red Hook
Where Tivoli clocks in
35% of workers
13% of workers
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.
How long Tivoli spends getting to work: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tivoli workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 456 commuters (the 13% 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 Tivoli commutes
About 32% 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.
Tivoli by day and by night
On a workday 433 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 132 people come in from elsewhere.
About 720 people are in Tivoli 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.
The kinds of work in Tivoli
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tivoli, 2013 → 2023: 76 → 145. 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 Tivoli’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Tivoli
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Tivoli is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 7.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 523 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 4.4% of Tivoli households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Tivoli’s commuters take a bus or train.
Tivoli is 1,900th of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,898 | Center Hill FL | 1,081 | $68K | 11.0% | 4.7% | 2% | C |
| 1,899 | Washington Township PA | 1,236 | $64K | 10.9% | 3.3% | 1% | C |
| 1,900 | Tivoli NY | 1,019 | $53K | 30.1% | 5.9% | 3% | C |
| 1,901 | North Charleroi PA | 1,283 | $51K | 20.2% | 7.7% | 2% | C |
| 1,902 | Wysox Township IL | 1,296 | $67K | 12.1% | 4.7% | 8% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Tivoli, 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 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Students. 24% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Tivoli: questions
What is the median household income in Tivoli?
$53,177 (±$27,635) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tivoli?
30.1% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 11.4%. New York: 14.0%.
How long is the commute from Tivoli?
23 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tivoli work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Red Hook (35%, 3 mi), New York City (13%, 96 mi), Kingston (4%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tivoli walkable?
Tivoli is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.2 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tivoli without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tivoli, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tivoli
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.