Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Wawarsing’s household incomes are lower than in 67% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 22.0% of residents, next to 14.0% for New York as a whole. The two grades for Wawarsing are C− for jobs and income and A− for walkability. About one in five work in Wawarsing; the top destination outside it is New York City (14%, 79 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Wawarsing apart on work
Wawarsing’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Wawarsing is New York City, 79 miles away as the crow flies. 14% of working residents (591) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
A big share show a job far from home
32% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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.
How Wawarsing earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Wawarsing is better than 18% of U.S. towns, #658 of 758 in New York. Unemployment holds Wawarsing’s grade up (5.3%, U.S. 5.2%); the poverty rate pulls it down.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Wawarsing could be anywhere from D to C+.
The distance from Wawarsing to work
About 32% 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.
Wawarsing by day and by night
On a workday 3,508 residents head out to work, 778 work right here, and 2,509 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.77 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Wawarsing’s residents
Where Wawarsing clocks in
14% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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.
Jobs in Wawarsing: what the 3,287 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wawarsing, 2013 → 2023: 2,923 → 3,287. 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 Wawarsing’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 30 minutes to work from Wawarsing
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wawarsing workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,974 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Wawarsing
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Wawarsing is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns, #280 of 758 in New York. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 7.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,427 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 54% 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 under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 12.2% of Wawarsing households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Wawarsing’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 2,354 U.S. towns of 9,000 to 17,000, Wawarsing comes 2,092nd on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 62 | Floral Park NY | 16,105 | $150K | 3.0% | 3.1% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 87 | East Rockaway NY | 10,096 | $125K | 2.6% | 3.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 90 | North Castle NY | 12,360 | $208K | 3.8% | 3.1% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,090 | Farmersville CA | 10,326 | $61K | 22.9% | 8.0% | 7% | C− |
| 2,091 | Mountain Home ID | 16,779 | $63K | 11.4% | 6.1% | 29% | C− |
| 2,092 | Wawarsing NY | 12,448 | $64K | 22.0% | 5.3% | 18% | C− |
| 2,093 | Brookhaven MS | 11,646 | $37K | 28.6% | 3.4% | 43% | C− |
| 2,094 | Johnson City NY | 14,580 | $56K | 19.6% | 11.4% | 15% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,354 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Wawarsing, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
Wawarsing and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Rochester (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Wawarsing workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wawarsing | – | C− | A− | 30 min | $64,321 |
| Shawangunk | under 2% | B− | C | 35 min | $109,536 |
| Ellenville | under 2% | D | A+ | 21 min | $42,969 |
| Rochester | 3% | C+ | B | 36 min | $86,691 |
| Fallsburg | 3% | D | B− | 22 min | $62,452 |
| Neversink | under 2% | B− | C+ | 32 min | $80,682 |
| Gardiner | under 2% | B+ | B | 32 min | $115,234 |
| Walker Valley | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Mamakating | under 2% | C+ | C | 34 min | $90,631 |
| Denning | under 2% | — | — | 36 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Walker Valley: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Denning: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Wawarsing’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 Wawarsing: questions
What is the median household income in Wawarsing?
$64,321 (±$5,434) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wawarsing?
22.0%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wawarsing?
30 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 Wawarsing work?
18% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (14%, 79 mi), Wallkill (5%, 18 mi), Kingston (4%, 25 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wawarsing walkable?
Wawarsing is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.7 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wawarsing without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wawarsing, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wawarsing
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.