Work & commute · East Fishkill

Work & commute in East Fishkill, NY

Most working residents leave East Fishkill for work: only 10% work in town. The top destinations are New York (15%), Poughkeepsie (7%) and Wappinger (7%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

10%

1,173 of 12,208 working residents

Typical commute

18 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

36 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

17%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 11,035 East Fishkill residents head out of town to work, 1,173 work right here, and 7,046 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in East Fishkill.

11,035live here, work elsewhere

1,173live and work here

7,046work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where East Fishkill goes to work

New York62.3 mi away

15%1,803

East Fishkill (in town)right here

10%1,173

Poughkeepsie10.2 mi away

7%848

Wappinger6.1 mi away

7%800

Fishkill8 mi away

4%536

Poughkeepsie11.9 mi away

4%451

Carmel12.1 mi away

3%313

Yorktown19.9 mi away

2%299

LaGrange8.9 mi away

2%294

Southeast13.9 mi away

2%253

Everywhere elseother towns and states

45%5,438

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

How far

How far East Fishkill commutes

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

31%

27%

15%

27%

31%Under 10 mi

27%10–24 mi

15%25–50 mi

27%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

East Fishkill is a commuter town

0.67jobs per working resident

A commuter town

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

The jobs

What the jobs in East Fishkill are

8,219 jobs are based in East Fishkill. Here is what they are, next to the jobs East Fishkill’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in East Fishkill

8,219 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)31%

Trade, transport & utilities10%

Services (health, schools, offices…)59%

$1,250 a month or less13%

$1,251–$3,333 a month20%

Over $3,333 a month67%

Jobs East Fishkill residents hold

12,208 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 month21%

Over $3,333 a month66%

−12%

Jobs based in East Fishkill, 2013 → 2023: 9,339 → 8,219. 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.