How Troupsburg works: jobs, income and commuting
Troupsburg grades C− for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Only 5% work in Troupsburg itself; outside it, Hornell draws the most (10%, 19 miles). Working from home is the commute for 8% of workers, next to 15% for New York as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Troupsburg: the gist
Troupsburg’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Troupsburg is better than 18% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Troupsburg’s grade up ($71,875, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (near the bottom of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.8%) is left out: Troupsburg’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, Troupsburg could be anywhere from D to C+.
Short hops and long hauls from Troupsburg
About 31% 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.
Troupsburg quiets down on a workday
On a workday 281 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 174 people come in from elsewhere.
About 910 people are in Troupsburg on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
0.64 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.
Where people from Troupsburg work
Where Troupsburg clocks in
10% 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.
Troupsburg is a services town
189 jobs are based in Troupsburg.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Troupsburg, 2013 → 2023: 101 → 189. 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 Troupsburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Troupsburg: about 33 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Troupsburg workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 366 commuters (the 8% 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.
Troupsburg is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Troupsburg is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 5.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 398 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). 11.1% of Troupsburg households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Troupsburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Troupsburg is 2,171st 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,169 | Waitsburg WA | 1,184 | $68K | 12.4% | 5.5% | 3% | C− |
| 2,170 | Salt Creek Township IN | 1,003 | $62K | 10.9% | 3.4% | <1% | C− |
| 2,171 | Troupsburg NY | 1,014 | $72K | 12.5% | 2.8% | 5% | C− |
| 2,172 | Jefferson NY | 1,336 | $67K | 11.5% | 8.5% | 6% | C− |
| 2,173 | Jackson Township OH | 1,053 | $73K | 17.9% | 0.0% | 2% | 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 Troupsburg, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Around Troupsburg: the bordering towns
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Troupsburg workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Troupsburg | – | C− | B− | 33 min | $71,875 |
| West Union | under 3% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Woodhull | under 3% | C− | C+ | 26 min | $60,106 |
| Jasper | under 3% | C | C+ | 24 min | $80,588 |
Same-state neighbors only. West Union: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Troupsburg’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 Troupsburg: questions
What is the median household income in Troupsburg?
$71,875 (±$11,002) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Troupsburg?
12.5%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Troupsburg?
33 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Troupsburg work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hornell (10%, 19 mi), Hornellsville (6%, 20 mi), Greenwood (5%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Troupsburg walkable?
Troupsburg is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Troupsburg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Troupsburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Troupsburg
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.