Robert Ingersoll Birthplace · Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, New York, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Household incomes in Torrey are higher than in 73% of U.S. towns
11.2% of residents live below the poverty line; New York has 14.0%. Jobs and income earn Torrey C+; getting around on foot earns it B−. Only 6% work in Torrey; the top destination outside it is Milo (20%, 5 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Torrey
Torrey makes and builds things
70% of the jobs based in Torrey are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Torrey residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 26%. The jobs ↓
Torrey and Milo trade workers both ways
Milo is the top workplace for Torrey residents (20%) and also where the most people who work in Torrey come from (20% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Torrey 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 ↓
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 371 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Torrey’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Torrey is better than 42% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Torrey’s grade up ($95,500, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 17% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (6.0%) is left out: Torrey’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, Torrey could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Factories, building and farms: 70% of the jobs in Torrey
413 jobs are based in Torrey.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Torrey, 2013 → 2023: 345 → 413. 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 Torrey’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting out of Torrey: the destinations
Where Torrey clocks in
8% 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.
About 26 minutes to work from Torrey
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Torrey workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 390 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.
Who works in Torrey, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 349 residents head out to work, 22 work right here, and 391 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 (1.11 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.
Miles to work from Torrey
About 20% 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.
Torrey is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Torrey is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 9.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 3.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 461 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). 9.6% of Torrey households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Torrey’s commuters take a bus or train.
Torrey next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700: 2,030th of 4,866 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,028 | Chester Township MI | 1,354 | $74K | 5.3% | 10.0% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,029 | Cleveland Township MI | 1,135 | $82K | 7.9% | 1.7% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,030 | Torrey NY | 1,286 | $96K | 11.2% | 6.0% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,031 | Hartland Township OH | 1,035 | $73K | 9.1% | 2.9% | 0% | C+ |
| 2,032 | Sumpter WI | 1,030 | $59K | 7.1% | 0.7% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Torrey, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Torrey and its neighbors: 28% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Torrey workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torrey | – | C+ | B− | 26 min | $95,500 |
| Benton | 6% | C+ | B− | 23 min | $74,767 |
| Milo | 20% | C+ | B+ | 16 min | $62,500 |
| Romulus | under 2% | C− | D | 23 min | $69,447 |
| Ovid | under 2% | D | B− | 31 min | $63,594 |
| Lodi | 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 Torrey’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 Torrey: questions
What is the median household income in Torrey?
$95,500 (±$16,457) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Torrey?
11.2%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Torrey?
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 Torrey work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Milo (20%, 5 mi), Geneva (8%, 14 mi), Benton (6%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Torrey walkable?
Torrey is more walkable than 48% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 3.8 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Torrey without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Torrey, from the people who make the trip.
More of Torrey
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.