Photo: Adam Moss · CC BY-SA 2.0Woodbourne draws 517 commuters a day, with 3.6 jobs for every working resident
Hardly any work in Woodbourne itself; outside it, New York City draws the most (17%, 83 miles). There are 518 jobs in Woodbourne, against 145 working residents. 0% of workers work from home, where New York as a whole has 15%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Woodbourne nearly doubles on a workday
On a workday 144 residents head out to work and 1 work right here.
About 810 people are in Woodbourne on a workday afternoon, 85% more 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.
Who travels to work in Woodbourne, and from where
Where Woodbourne clocks in
17% of workers
17% of workers
17% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Woodbourne
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Woodbourne, 2014 → 2024: 119 → 518. 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 Woodbourne’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Woodbourne spends getting to work: about 42 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Woodbourne workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 109 commuters (the 0% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Woodbourne
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
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 Woodbourne: questions
What is the poverty rate in Woodbourne?
38.7%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Woodbourne?
42 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 0% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Woodbourne work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (17%, 83 mi), Thompson (17%, 9 mi), Fallsburg (17%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Woodbourne without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Woodbourne, from the people who make the trip.
More of Woodbourne
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.