Work and commuting in Wurtsboro
For jobs and income Wurtsboro is better than 48% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (B+). Only 1% work in Wurtsboro itself; outside it, New York City draws the most (13%, 69 miles). The trip to work takes 29 minutes on average; New York averages 33, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Wurtsboro
How Wurtsboro earns its Jobs & income grade
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Wurtsboro’s grade.
Unemployment (3.5%) is left out: Wurtsboro’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, Wurtsboro could be anywhere from C− to A−.
How far Wurtsboro’s workers travel
About 24% 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.
Who works in Wurtsboro, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 443 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 306 people come in from elsewhere.
About 940 people are in Wurtsboro on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.69 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where Wurtsboro goes to work
Where Wurtsboro clocks in
13% of workers
11% of workers
8% 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.
Inside Wurtsboro’s 311 jobs
311 jobs are based in Wurtsboro.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Wurtsboro, 2014 → 2024: 244 → 311. 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 Wurtsboro’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 29 minutes each way, quicker than most of New York
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Wurtsboro workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 491 commuters (the 14% 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.
Most trips from Wurtsboro start in a car
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 32.9% across New York.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 569 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 75% 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). 6.3% of Wurtsboro households have no vehicle (New York 29.2%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Wurtsboro’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, Wurtsboro ranks 1,307th of 3,771 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 4 | Saddle Rock NY | 1,008 | $176K | 0.8% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,305 | Elmdale Township MN | 1,003 | $81K | 6.3% | 1.8% | <1% | B− |
| 1,306 | Logan Elm Village OH | 1,214 | $85K | 12.3% | 1.4% | <1% | B− |
| 1,307 | Wurtsboro NY | 1,081 | $79K | 10.8% | 3.5% | 1% | B− |
| 1,308 | Bruceville-Eddy TX | 1,483 | $76K | 12.6% | 2.4% | 3% | B− |
| 1,309 | Seneca Township MI | 1,116 | $63K | 2.0% | 2.4% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Wurtsboro, the top three, the last and three more from New York.
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 Wurtsboro: questions
What is the median household income in Wurtsboro?
$79,000 (±$24,921) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $85,974 across New York and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Wurtsboro?
10.8%, against 14.0% across New York and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Wurtsboro?
29 minutes each way on average, against 33 across New York and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Wurtsboro work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New York City (13%, 69 mi), Wallkill (11%, 7 mi), Thompson (8%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Wurtsboro walkable?
Wurtsboro is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 10.9 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Wurtsboro without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Wurtsboro, from the people who make the trip.
More of Wurtsboro
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.