Gallupville House · Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, Upstate New York, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Wright has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Home is the office for 6% of workers; New York has 15%. 88 jobs are based in Wright, and 492 of its residents work somewhere. Wright grades B− for jobs and income and C− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Wright stands out on work
The figures behind Wright’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Wright is better than 52% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Wright’s grade up (7.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 22% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (2.6%) is left out: Wright’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Wright could be anywhere from C to B+.
The daily commute in and out of Wright
On a workday 483 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 79 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Wright on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
12% of working residents work in Middleburgh
Where Wright clocks in
9% 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 67% of work in Wright
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wright, 2013 → 2023: 43 → 88. 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 Wright’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 33 minutes from Wright
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wright workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 843 commuters (the 6% 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 commute from Wright, by distance
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Driving is how Wright gets around
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 32.9% across New York, on an EPA index of 2.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 896 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). 1.0% of Wright households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Wright’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Wright is 1,997th of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,995 | Diamond Ridge AK | 1,329 | $88K | 3.9% | 2.3% | — | B− |
| 1,996 | Sims Township IN | 1,668 | $75K | 7.0% | 1.9% | 2% | B− |
| 1,997 | Wright NY | 1,519 | $86K | 7.0% | 2.6% | 2% | B− |
| 1,998 | Worth Township PA | 1,357 | $69K | 7.1% | 10.2% | 2% | B− |
| 1,999 | Morenci AZ | 1,673 | $70K | 3.5% | 4.0% | 64% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | 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 Wright, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
23% of Wright works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Middleburgh (12%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Wright workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wright | – | B− | C− | 33 min | $86,250 |
| Schoharie | 9% | C | D | 33 min | $63,657 |
| Knox | under 2% | B | D− | 33 min | $124,083 |
| Middleburgh | 12% | C− | C+ | 28 min | $53,374 |
| Duanesburg | 2% | B | C+ | 30 min | $95,378 |
| Berne | under 2% | B | D− | 33 min | $105,219 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Wright’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 Wright: questions
What is the median household income in Wright?
$86,250 (±$12,697) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wright?
7.0%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wright?
33 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wright work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Middleburgh (12%, 6 mi), Cobleskill (10%, 12 mi), Schoharie (9%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Wright walkable?
Wright is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 2.5 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wright 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 Wright, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wright
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.