Photo: The original uploader was Duke53 at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 2.5Tupper Lake draws about two in five of Tupper Lake’s working residents
Household incomes here are lower than in 79% of U.S. towns. The two grades for Tupper Lake are D for jobs and income and A− for walkability. About one in four work in Tupper Lake itself; outside it, Tupper Lake draws the most (40%, 1 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Tupper Lake in brief
Commutes from Tupper Lake are quick
The average trip to work takes 14 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 146 hours a year less on the road than the typical New York worker. Time on the road ↓
Tupper Lake has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Tupper Lake went from 1,037 in 2013 to 1,591 in 2023, +53%. The jobs ↓
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; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Where Tupper Lake’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Tupper Lake is better than 14% of U.S. towns, #697 of 758 in New York. Unemployment holds Tupper Lake’s grade up (3.6%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 3% of U.S. towns).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Tupper Lake could be anywhere from D− to C+.
About 14 minutes each way, quicker than most of New York
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tupper Lake workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 984 commuters (the 10% 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.
Where people from Tupper Lake work
Where Tupper Lake clocks in
40% of workers
10% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Tupper Lake
1,591 jobs are based in Tupper Lake.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tupper Lake, 2013 → 2023: 1,037 → 1,591. 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 Tupper Lake’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Tupper Lake works
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.
How a workday changes Tupper Lake
On a workday 834 residents head out to work, 357 work right here, and 1,234 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,700 people are in Tupper Lake on a workday afternoon, 12% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.34 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.
Tupper Lake is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Tupper Lake is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns, #270 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 11.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 7.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,090 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). 8.6% of Tupper Lake households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Tupper Lake’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Tupper Lake is 3,829th among 4,453 U.S. towns of 2,300 to 4,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | East Williston NY | 2,616 | $215K | 2.3% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 10 | Lloyd Harbor NY | 3,587 | $250K | 2.1% | 0.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 47 | Great Neck Estates NY | 3,139 | $238K | 5.7% | 1.7% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,827 | Danielson CT | 4,265 | $64K | 21.1% | 17.1% | 6% | D |
| 3,828 | East Dublin GA | 2,552 | $50K | 28.7% | 4.1% | 4% | D |
| 3,829 | Tupper Lake NY | 3,288 | $57K | 22.5% | 3.6% | 30% | D |
| 3,830 | Derry PA | 2,561 | $50K | 16.6% | 10.0% | 4% | D |
| 3,831 | Bethel ME | 2,751 | $59K | 13.9% | 5.2% | 32% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,453 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Tupper Lake, 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.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Tupper Lake: questions
What is the median household income in Tupper Lake?
$56,902 (±$4,356) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tupper Lake?
22.5%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tupper Lake?
14 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tupper Lake work?
30% work in town.
Is Tupper Lake walkable?
Tupper Lake is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 11% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tupper Lake 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 Tupper Lake, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tupper Lake
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.