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Work & commute in Port Ewen · A commuter town

96% of Port Ewen’s working residents leave town for work

Most working residents leave Port Ewen for work: only 4% work in town. The top destinations are Kingston (20%), New York (15%) and Ulster (6%). Half commute less than 15 miles.

Work in town
4%
55 of 1,426 working residents
Typical commute
15 mi
half travel less, straight-line
Time each way
24 min
Less than NY (33 min)
Work from home
10%
Less than NY (15%)
Jobs based here
368
A commuter town

What kind of work town is Port Ewen?

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

★ What stands out · The commute map

20% of working residents work in Kingston

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

Poughkeepsie: 30 residents work here (2%)Kingston: 290 residents work here (20%)Albany: 29 residents work here (2%)New York: 214 residents work here (15%)HempsteadSaugerties: 35 residents work here (2%)Ulster: 88 residents work here (6%)New Paltz: 46 residents work here (3%)RosendaleEsopus: 73 residents work here (5%)MarbletownHurleyRhinebeck: 34 residents work here (2%)Poughkeepsie: 53 residents work here (4%)Port EwenKingstonNew YorkUlsterEsopusPoughkeepsieNew PaltzPort Ewen
1
Kingston2.1 mi away
20%290
2
New York85.8 mi away
15%214
3
Ulster4.8 mi away
6%88
4
Esopus4.9 mi away
5%73
5
Poughkeepsie16.7 mi away
4%53
6
New Paltz11.3 mi away
3%46
7
Saugerties13 mi away
2%35
8
Rhinebeck4.2 mi away
2%34
9
Poughkeepsie14.8 mi away
2%30
10
Albany53.4 mi away
2%29
Everywhere elseother towns and states
37%534
The top trips

Where Port Ewen clocks in

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

Time on the road

About 24 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
180 hours

Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.

Average commute minutes, one way

Port Ewen24 min
New York33 min
U.S.26 min
Working from home
10%

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

About 1 in 10
Next door

27% of Port Ewen works in a bordering town

The biggest share goes to Kingston (20%). Darker towns draw more of Port Ewen’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.

Day and night

Port Ewen quiets down on a workday

On a workday 1,371 residents head out to work, 55 work right here, and 313 people come in from elsewhere.

1,371live here, work elsewhere
55live and work here
313work here, live elsewhere
Night and day
At night3,400
Workday2,400
3,400live here− 1,400head out to work+ 310come in to work= 2,400on a workday

About 2,400 people are in Port Ewen on a workday afternoon, 31% fewer than live here.

Job hub or commuter town?
0.26jobs per workerCommuter townJob hub

0.26 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 2023, primary jobs.

How far

Half of Port Ewen commutes less than 15 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 miKingston: 20% · 2.1 miNew York: 15% · 85.8 miUlster: 6% · 4.8 miEsopus: 5% · 4.9 miPoughkeepsie: 4% · 16.7 miNew Paltz: 3% · 11.3 miSaugerties: 2% · 13 miRhinebeck: 2% · 4.2 miPoughkeepsie: 2% · 14.8 miAlbany: 2% · 53.4 miKingston 20%New York 15%Ulster 6%Esopus 5%Poughkeepsie 4%Port Ewen
Port EwenTop destinations (size = commuters)
39%Under 10 mi554 residents
19%10–24 mi269 residents
11%25–50 mi150 residents
32%Over 50 mi452 residents

About 32% 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 368 jobs in Port Ewen are

368 jobs are based in Port Ewen. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Port Ewen’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Port EwenJobs Port Ewen residents hold

What kind of work

Goods: factories, building, farms5%10%
Trade, transport & utilities21%21%
Services: health, schools, offices74%69%

What it pays

$1,250 a month or less19%13%
$1,251–$3,333 a month29%24%
Over $3,333 a month52%63%

Who does it

29 or younger21%20%
30 to 5445%50%
55 and older35%30%
−10%

Jobs based in Port Ewen, 2013 → 2023: 407 → 368. 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.

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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