Photo: Daniel Case · CC BY-SA 3.0Wallkill has 1.7 jobs for every working resident: 19,813 people commute in to work
Jobs & income B−: better than 53% of U.S. towns on income, poverty, unemployment and job access · #393 of 758 in New York.
Walkability A−: more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns · #311 of 758 in New York.
Household incomes here are higher than in 74% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 31 minutes each way (New York 33, U.S. 26). About one in five work in Wallkill; the top destination outside it is New York City (16%, 62 miles).
Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 0.1 transit trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 79.0 in New York City (EPA, 2020 schedules).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Wallkill
Wallkill’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Wallkill is New York City, 62 miles away as the crow flies. 16% of working residents (2,103) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Wallkill is where the jobs are
Wallkill has 22,648 jobs, 1.7 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
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.
What’s behind Wallkill’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Wallkill is better than 53% of U.S. towns, #393 of 758 in New York. Household income holds Wallkill’s grade up ($96,076, U.S. $80,734); unemployment pulls it down (6.1%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Wallkill could be anywhere from C+ to B+.
Half of Wallkill commutes less than 17 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 28% 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.
Wallkill fills up on a workday
On a workday 10,247 residents head out to work, 2,835 work right here, and 19,813 people come in from elsewhere.
About 41,000 people are in Wallkill on a workday afternoon, 30% more than live here.
1.7 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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 Wallkill’s workers come from
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Wallkill clocks in
16% of workers
6% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
What the 22,648 jobs in Wallkill are
22,648 jobs are based in Wallkill. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Wallkill’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wallkill, 2013 → 2023: 19,644 → 22,648. 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.
About 31 minutes each way, about the NY average
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wallkill workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 14,230 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.
Wallkill is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wallkill is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns, #311 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 7.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 15,892 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 11% 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 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 42% 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). 9.0% of Wallkill households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Wallkill’s commuters take a bus or train.
Wallkill is 881st of 1,334 U.S. towns of 22,000 to 42,000 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Wallkill, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| 3 | Southlake TX | 31,175 | $250K | 1.5% | 2.7% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Eastchester NY | 34,015 | $156K | 4.8% | 2.6% | 10% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 51 | Garden City NY | 23,043 | $244K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 10% | A+ |
| 52 | Clifton Park NY | 37,775 | $133K | 2.3% | 2.0% | 13% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 879 | Martinez GA | 33,750 | $82K | 10.0% | 6.1% | 10% | B− |
| 880 | Patterson CA | 26,587 | $94K | 9.0% | 5.7% | 16% | B− |
| 881 | Wallkill NY | 31,414 | $96K | 11.0% | 6.1% | 22% | B− |
| 882 | Nicholasville KY | 33,857 | $69K | 13.1% | 3.6% | 20% | B− |
| 883 | Springfield Township OH | 35,887 | $74K | 11.8% | 5.5% | 3% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,334 | Barstow CA | 24,804 | $53K | 23.1% | 11.9% | 17% | 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.
Wallkill and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Middletown (6%). Darker towns draw more of Wallkill’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Wallkill workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wallkill | – | B− | A− | 31 min | $96,076 |
| Mamakating | under 2% | C+ | C | 34 min | $90,631 |
| Middletown | 6% | C+ | A | 36 min | $79,346 |
| Hamptonburgh | under 2% | A− | B | 38 min | $122,250 |
| Bloomingburg | under 2% | — | — | 33 min | — |
| Mount Hope | under 2% | A− | C− | 40 min | $91,475 |
| Crawford | under 2% | B | B− | 31 min | $134,955 |
| Wawayanda | under 2% | B+ | C | 34 min | $143,017 |
| Montgomery | 3% | B | A− | 34 min | $92,939 |
Same-state neighbors only. Bloomingburg: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
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 Wallkill: questions
What is the median household income in Wallkill?
$96,076 (±$3,794) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wallkill?
11.0%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wallkill?
31 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 Wallkill work?
22% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (16%, 62 mi), Goshen (6%, 8 mi), Middletown (6%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wallkill walkable?
Wallkill is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.5 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wallkill without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wallkill, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wallkill
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.