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Work & commute in Pine Bush · Balanced

95% of Pine Bush’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Pine Bush for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are New York (16%), Montgomery (9%) and Wallkill (8%). Half commute less than 18 miles.

Work in town
5%
32 of 653 working residents
Typical commute
18 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
28 min
Less than NY (33 min)
Work from home
6%
Less than NY (15%)
Jobs based here
567
Balanced

What kind of work town is Pine Bush?

Read from the numbers below. The page puts what stands out first.

★ What stands out · Time on the road

About 28 minutes each way, quicker than most of New York

From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.

A year of commuting
211 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Pine Bush28 min
New York33 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
6%

of Pine Bush workers work from home, vs 15% across New York. Their commute is the hallway.

About 1 in 10
Day and night

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 621 residents head out to work, 32 work right here, and 535 people come in from elsewhere.

621live here, work elsewhere
32live and work here
535work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night1,900
Workday1,800
1,900live here− 620head out to work+ 540come in to work= 1,800on a workday

About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.87jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

About as many jobs as working residents (0.87 per resident).

Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.

The commute map

16% of working residents work in New York

A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.

Newburgh: 15 residents work here (2%)Middletown: 17 residents work here (3%)New York: 107 residents work here (16%)New WindsorShawangunk: 32 residents work here (5%)Crawford: 49 residents work here (8%)Goshen: 27 residents work here (4%)Newburgh: 17 residents work here (3%)Wallkill: 54 residents work here (8%)Montgomery: 59 residents work here (9%)MamakatingThompson: 20 residents work here (3%)Pine BushNew YorkMontgomeryWallkillCrawfordShawangunkGoshenPine Bush
1
New York68 mi away
16%107
2
Montgomery6.6 mi away
9%59
3
Wallkill9.9 mi away
8%54
4
Crawford2.8 mi away
8%49
5
Shawangunk2.2 mi away
5%32
6
Goshen16 mi away
4%27
7
Thompson19.8 mi away
3%20
8
Middletown13.1 mi away
3%17
9
Newburgh12.9 mi away
3%17
10
Newburgh16.1 mi away
2%15
Everywhere elseother towns and states
39%256
The top trips

Where Pine Bush clocks in

Lines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.

How far

Half of Pine Bush commutes less than 18 miles

Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

10 mi25 mi50 mi80 miNew York: 16% · 68 miMontgomery: 9% · 6.6 miWallkill: 8% · 9.9 miCrawford: 8% · 2.8 miShawangunk: 5% · 2.2 miGoshen: 4% · 16 miThompson: 3% · 19.8 miMiddletown: 3% · 13.1 miNewburgh: 3% · 12.9 miNewburgh: 2% · 16.1 miNew York 16%Montgomery 9%Wallkill 8%Shawangunk 5%Pine Bush
Pine BushTop destinations (size = commuters)
24%Under 10 mi159 residents
35%10–24 mi231 residents
12%25–50 mi76 residents
29%Over 50 mi187 residents

About 29% 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.

The jobs

What the 567 jobs in Pine Bush are

567 jobs are based in Pine Bush. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Pine Bush’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Pine BushJobs Pine Bush residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms8%12%
Trade, transport & utilities34%17%
Services: health, schools, offices57%71%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less28%14%
$1,251–$3,333 a month45%22%
Over $3,333 a month28%64%

Who does it

29 or younger26%22%
30 to 5439%51%
55 and older35%26%
−29%

Jobs based in Pine Bush, 2013 → 2023: 801 → 567. 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.

Next door

13% of Pine Bush works in a bordering town

The biggest share goes to Crawford (8%). Darker towns draw more of Pine Bush’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

10%+5–9%2–4%1%Under 1%

Average commute minutes, one way

Pine Bush28 min
Crawford31 min
Shawangunk35 min
How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Every worker, home to work. The 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 says. A 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 surveys. Flows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: the Census American Community Survey.
  • Straight lines. Distances are as the crow flies between home and work. Roads, rivers and traffic make the real trip longer.
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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.

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