Narrowsburg Methodist Church · Photo: Doug Kerr from Upstate New York · CC BY-SA 2.0Tusten has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
28% of workers work from home (New York 15%). 253 jobs are based in Tusten; 520 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Tusten is better than 39% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns (B+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Tusten apart on work
A big share show a job far from home
37% 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 ↓
Home offices are common in Tusten
28% of Tusten workers work from home, against 15% across New York. Time on the road ↓
Tusten workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 39 minutes each way, against 33 across New York. Over a year that’s about 299 hours of commuting, 46 more than the state’s typical 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 520 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Tusten earns its Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Tusten’s grade up (6.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 5% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (9.8%) is left out: Tusten’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Tusten could be anywhere from D to B.
How far it is to work from Tusten
About 37% 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.
From Tusten, about 39 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tusten workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 593 commuters (the 28% 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 a workday changes Tusten
On a workday 461 residents head out to work, 59 work right here, and 194 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Tusten on a workday afternoon, 19% 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.
12% of working residents work in Thompson
Where Tusten clocks in
12% of workers
11% 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.
Jobs in Tusten: what the 253 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tusten, 2013 → 2023: 236 → 253. 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 Tusten’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute in Tusten is mostly behind the wheel
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 11.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 6.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 822 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). 1.4% of Tusten households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Tusten’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Tusten is 2,753rd of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,751 | Cut and Shoot TX | 1,141 | $72K | 20.4% | 1.9% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,752 | Carlisle NY | 1,760 | $87K | 9.6% | 5.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,753 | Tusten NY | 1,436 | $76K | 6.4% | 9.8% | 11% | C+ |
| 2,754 | Cass Township PA | 1,004 | $79K | 6.7% | 0.0% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,755 | Brush Fork WV | 1,096 | $70K | 9.2% | 0.0% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Tusten, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Tusten and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Lackawaxen Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Tusten’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 Tusten: questions
What is the median household income in Tusten?
$75,893 (±$20,871) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tusten?
6.4%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tusten?
39 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 28% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Tusten work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Thompson (12%, 17 mi), New York City (11%, 83 mi), Delaware (8%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tusten walkable?
Tusten is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.3 out of 20, and 11% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tusten without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tusten, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tusten
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.