Second Baptist Church of Wayne · Photo: PAR · CC0Tyrone has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
There are 67 jobs in Tyrone for 566 working residents. Tyrone grades D for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Only 2% work in Tyrone; the top destination outside it is Dix (10%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Tyrone at work: what stands out
Tyrone is a place people come home to
There are 67 jobs based in Tyrone, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Tyrone has about 1,100 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Tyrone are quick
The average trip to work takes 24 minutes, against 33 across New York. That’s about 69 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 566 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Tyrone
On income, poverty and job access, Tyrone is better than 12% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Tyrone’s grade up ($72,083, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 9% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (9.4%) is left out: Tyrone’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, Tyrone could be anywhere from D− to C.
Tyrone on a workday afternoon
On a workday 552 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 53 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Tyrone on a workday afternoon, 32% 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.
About 24 minutes each way for Tyrone’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Tyrone workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 562 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.
Where Tyrone goes to work
Where Tyrone clocks in
8% 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.
What Tyrone’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Tyrone, 2013 → 2023: 39 → 67. 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 Tyrone’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Tyrone’s commute, mile by mile
About 19% 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.
Few in Tyrone walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Tyrone is more walkable than 45% 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 3.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 645 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). 8.0% of Tyrone households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Tyrone’s commuters take a bus or train.
Tyrone is 4,622nd of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 5 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,620 | Ross Township IL | 1,466 | $62K | 15.3% | 5.1% | 12% | D |
| 4,621 | Sherman Township MI | 1,128 | $76K | 22.1% | 5.4% | 2% | D |
| 4,622 | Tyrone NY | 1,557 | $72K | 21.2% | 9.4% | 2% | D |
| 4,623 | Edinburg NY | 1,339 | $70K | 17.8% | 4.9% | 7% | D |
| 4,624 | Troy Township OH | 1,240 | $53K | 21.6% | 9.8% | 1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Tyrone, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Work in the towns next to Tyrone
The biggest share goes to Orange (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Tyrone workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyrone | – | D | B− | 24 min | $72,083 |
| Wayne | under 4% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Orange | 5% | D | D− | 30 min | $60,000 |
| Barrington | under 4% | B− | B | 19 min | $90,938 |
| Reading | under 4% | B | D | 28 min | $86,131 |
Same-state neighbors only. Wayne: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Tyrone’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 Tyrone: questions
What is the median household income in Tyrone?
$72,083 (±$17,346) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Tyrone?
21.2%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Tyrone?
24 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 Tyrone work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Dix (10%, 10 mi), Corning (8%, 20 mi), Bath (5%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Tyrone walkable?
Tyrone is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 3.2 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Tyrone without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Tyrone, from the people who make the trip.
More of Tyrone
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.