Photo: User:Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Willsboro commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Willsboro grades C− for jobs and income and C for walkability. There are 372 jobs in Willsboro for 746 working residents. About one in five work in Willsboro; the top destination outside it is Elizabethtown (12%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Willsboro, in a few figures
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Willsboro
On income, poverty and job access, Willsboro is better than 20% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Willsboro’s grade up ($69,766, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 6% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.0%) is left out: Willsboro’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, Willsboro could be anywhere from D− to B−.
Time on the road from Willsboro: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Willsboro workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 790 commuters (the 12% 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.
The daily flow of workers through Willsboro
On a workday 581 residents head out to work, 165 work right here, and 207 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Willsboro on a workday afternoon, 20% 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 2024, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Willsboro’s residents
Where Willsboro clocks in
12% of workers
9% 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 31% of work in Willsboro
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Willsboro, 2014 → 2024: 440 → 372. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Willsboro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Willsboro
About 25% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Willsboro is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Willsboro is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Willsboro near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 898 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). 6.2% of Willsboro households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Willsboro’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Willsboro is 4,044th of 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Atlantic Beach NY | 1,723 | $166K | 1.8% | 3.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,042 | Raymond MS | 1,384 | $40K | 20.6% | 4.0% | 6% | C− |
| 4,043 | Hume NY | 2,036 | $69K | 11.2% | 12.0% | 6% | C− |
| 4,044 | Willsboro NY | 1,831 | $70K | 12.1% | 2.0% | 22% | C− |
| 4,045 | Sanford NY | 2,162 | $77K | 16.4% | 1.5% | 11% | C− |
| 4,046 | Bridgewater Township OH | 1,404 | $77K | 23.3% | 4.7% | 2% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Willsboro, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
How Willsboro compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Willsboro workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Willsboro | – | C− | C | 24 min | $69,766 |
| Chesterfield | under 2% | D | C− | 21 min | $65,278 |
| Essex | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Lewis | under 2% | B− | D− | 25 min | $82,083 |
Same-state neighbors only. Essex: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Willsboro’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 2024, 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 Willsboro: questions
What is the median household income in Willsboro?
$69,766 (±$25,620) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Willsboro?
12.1%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Willsboro?
24 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Willsboro work?
22% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Elizabethtown (12%, 18 mi), Plattsburgh (9%, 21 mi), Plattsburgh (7%, 22 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Willsboro walkable?
Willsboro is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.6 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Willsboro without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Willsboro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Willsboro
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.