With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Varick works elsewhere
Varick has 174 jobs; 486 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Varick C; getting around on foot earns it B−. Only 2% work in Varick itself; outside it, Geneva draws the most (8%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Varick, in a few figures
How Varick earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Varick is better than 26% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Varick’s grade up ($80,250, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (17.6%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (6.1%) is left out: Varick’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, Varick could be anywhere from D to B.
Getting to work from Varick takes about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Varick workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 616 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.
Who leaves Varick for work, and who comes in
On a workday 477 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 165 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Varick 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.
Commuting out of Varick: the destinations
Where Varick clocks in
8% of workers
7% 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.
Goods jobs make up 37% of work in Varick
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Varick, 2013 → 2023: 170 → 174. 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 Varick’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Varick
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.
The commute in Varick is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Varick is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 4.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 706 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). 1.2% of Varick households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Varick’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Varick ranks: 3,920th of 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,918 | West Liberty OH | 1,756 | $52K | 11.2% | 2.1% | 5% | C |
| 3,919 | Jackson Center OH | 1,446 | $65K | 13.7% | 5.2% | 11% | C |
| 3,920 | Varick NY | 1,635 | $80K | 17.6% | 6.1% | 2% | C |
| 3,921 | Clifton Township PA | 1,522 | $57K | 13.2% | 8.0% | 1% | C |
| 3,922 | Mount Ayr IA | 1,637 | $74K | 10.9% | 4.0% | 27% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | 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 Varick, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
14% of Varick works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Romulus (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Varick workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Varick | – | C | B− | 23 min | $80,250 |
| Geneva | 3% | B− | D | 18 min | $82,589 |
| Romulus | 6% | C− | D | 23 min | $69,447 |
| Fayette | 5% | B | B− | 21 min | $77,875 |
| Ledyard | under 4% | C | B+ | 20 min | $86,731 |
| Benton | under 4% | C+ | B− | 23 min | $74,767 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Varick’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 Varick: questions
What is the median household income in Varick?
$80,250 (±$8,016) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Varick?
17.6%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Varick?
23 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 Varick work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Geneva (8%, 9 mi), Seneca Falls (7%, 9 mi), Waterloo (7%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Varick walkable?
Varick is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.5 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Varick without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Varick, from the people who make the trip.
More of Varick
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.