Work & commute · Cohoes

Work & commute in Cohoes, NY

Most working residents leave Cohoes for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are Albany (22%), Colonie (18%) and Troy (5%). Half commute less than 9 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

531 of 7,680 working residents

Typical commute

9 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

25 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

12%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 7,149 Cohoes residents head out of town to work, 531 work right here, and 2,529 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cohoes.

7,149live here, work elsewhere

531live and work here

2,529work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cohoes goes to work

Albany8.7 mi away

22%1,726

Colonie4.6 mi away

18%1,402

Cohoes (in town)right here

7%531

Troy3 mi away

5%400

New York146.3 mi away

5%385

East Greenbush11.6 mi away

3%221

Clifton Park8.3 mi away

2%190

Guilderland13.7 mi away

2%169

Halfmoon6.2 mi away

2%168

Schenectady11.3 mi away

2%167

Everywhere elseother towns and states

30%2,321

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Cohoes commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

64%

15%

18%

64%Under 10 mi

15%10–24 mi

3%25–50 mi

18%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cohoes is a commuter town

0.40jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.40 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Cohoes are

3,060 jobs are based in Cohoes. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cohoes’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Cohoes

3,060 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)23%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)62%

$1,250 a month or less18%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month58%

Jobs Cohoes residents hold

7,680 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month24%

Over $3,333 a month64%

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Jobs based in Cohoes, 2013 → 2023: 3,067 → 3,060. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.