Photo: Андрей Тесленко · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Valatie works elsewhere
Household incomes here are higher than in 77% of U.S. towns. 427 jobs are based in Valatie, and 812 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Valatie are A− for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Valatie in brief
Valatie and Kinderhook trade workers both ways
Kinderhook is the top workplace for Valatie residents (15%) and also where the most people who work in Valatie come from (28% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Valatie 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 ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Valatie
65% of Valatie residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 44% of the jobs based in Valatie pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 97% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
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 812 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Jobs & income in Valatie: the grade in detail
The poverty rate holds Valatie’s grade up (4.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 41% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (6.5%) is left out: Valatie’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, Valatie could be anywhere from B to A.
15% of working residents work in Kinderhook
Where Valatie clocks in
15% of workers
14% of workers
7% 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.
From Valatie, about 24 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Valatie workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 751 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.
Valatie is a services town
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Valatie, 2013 → 2023: 309 → 427. 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 Valatie’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily flow of workers through Valatie
On a workday 785 residents head out to work, 27 work right here, and 400 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Valatie on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Valatie
About 23% 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.
Getting around Valatie: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Valatie is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 32.9% across New York.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 832 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). 7.9% of Valatie households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Valatie’s commuters take a bus or train.
Valatie is 798th of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 796 | Avon-by-the-Sea NJ | 1,952 | $123K | 3.4% | 8.7% | 6% | A− |
| 797 | Elmer NJ | 1,376 | $95K | 9.8% | 2.9% | 4% | A− |
| 798 | Valatie NY | 1,705 | $100K | 4.1% | 6.5% | 3% | A− |
| 799 | Hammond Township IN | 1,645 | $84K | 4.4% | 1.1% | 1% | A− |
| 800 | Franklin Township IN | 1,297 | $105K | 6.5% | 0.5% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | 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 Valatie, 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 Valatie: questions
What is the median household income in Valatie?
$100,461 (±$19,687) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Valatie?
4.1%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Valatie?
24 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 Valatie work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kinderhook (15%, 0 mi), Albany (14%, 18 mi), New York City (7%, 122 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Valatie walkable?
Valatie is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.5 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Valatie without a car?
2% 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 Valatie, from the people who make the trip.
More of Valatie
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.