Photo: AITFFan1 · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Upper Brookville are among the highest of any U.S. town
Household incomes here are among the highest in the country. Below the poverty line: 0.9% of residents; New York has 14.0%. Upper Brookville grades A for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Upper Brookville apart
40% of Upper Brookville works in New York City
271 working residents, 40%, have their main job in New York City, 23 miles away. That’s 40 times as many as work in Upper Brookville itself. The commute map ↓
Upper Brookville’s workforce skews older
38% of Upper Brookville’s working residents are 55 or older. The jobs ↓
Upper Brookville 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 685 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Upper Brookville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Upper Brookville is better than 93% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Upper Brookville’s grade up ($250,000+, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (5.8%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
The Census reports Upper Brookville’s median household income as $250,000+, the top of its scale; the grade ranks it as tied with the 111 other graded places at that ceiling.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Upper Brookville could be anywhere from A to A+.
40% of working residents work in New York City
Where Upper Brookville clocks in
40% of workers
16% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Upper Brookville
330 jobs are based in Upper Brookville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Upper Brookville, 2013 → 2023: 211 → 330. 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 Upper Brookville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 39 minutes to work from Upper Brookville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Upper Brookville workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 818 commuters (the 19% 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.
Upper Brookville by day and by night
On a workday 678 residents head out to work, 7 work right here, and 323 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Upper Brookville on a workday afternoon, 20% fewer than live here.
0.48 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 in the region Upper Brookville works
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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Upper Brookville
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Upper Brookville is more walkable than 83% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 25.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 7.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,016 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 4.3 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 81% 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). 5.1% of Upper Brookville households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 24% of Upper Brookville’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Upper Brookville ranks: 243rd of 6,085 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 241 | Riverbend WA | 1,748 | $148K | 3.3% | 2.7% | <1% | A |
| 242 | Vinland WI | 1,739 | $91K | 2.5% | 1.2% | 2% | A |
| 243 | Upper Brookville NY | 1,778 | $250K | 0.9% | 5.8% | 1% | A |
| 244 | Stafford OR | 1,600 | $163K | 6.9% | 5.0% | 1% | A |
| 245 | Hidden Hills CA | 1,675 | $250K | 9.5% | 2.5% | <1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | 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 Upper Brookville, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Work in the towns next to Upper Brookville
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Upper Brookville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Brookville | – | A | A− | 39 min | $250,000+ |
| Muttontown | under 1% | A | A | 34 min | $250,000+ |
| Brookville | under 1% | A− | A | 26 min | $250,000+ |
| Matinecock | under 1% | — | — | 34 min | — |
| Old Brookville | under 1% | A+ | A− | 40 min | $250,000+ |
| Mill Neck | under 1% | A+ | B+ | 38 min | $196,359 |
| East Norwich | under 1% | — | — | 36 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Matinecock: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. East Norwich: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Upper Brookville’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.
- A ceiling on income. The Census stops at $250,000+, so the true median may be higher.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Upper Brookville: questions
What is the median household income in Upper Brookville?
$250,000+ (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Upper Brookville?
0.9%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Upper Brookville?
39 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Upper Brookville work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (40%, 23 mi), Oyster Bay (16%, 4 mi), Hempstead (11%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Upper Brookville walkable?
Upper Brookville is more walkable than 83% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.1 out of 20, and 26% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Upper Brookville without a car?
24% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Upper Brookville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Upper Brookville
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.