Work & commute · Sleepy Hollow

Work & commute in Sleepy Hollow, NY

Most working residents leave Sleepy Hollow for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are New York (28%), Mount Pleasant (14%) and Greenburgh (13%). Half commute less than 13 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

288 of 3,977 working residents

Typical commute

13 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

30 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

21%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,689 Sleepy Hollow residents head out of town to work, 288 work right here, and 2,805 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Sleepy Hollow.

3,689live here, work elsewhere

288live and work here

2,805work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Sleepy Hollow goes to work

New York30.3 mi away

28%1,099

Mount Pleasant3 mi away

14%538

Greenburgh4.9 mi away

13%529

White Plains8 mi away

4%172

Ossining4.2 mi away

4%153

Yonkers10.5 mi away

3%121

Ramapo12.6 mi away

2%82

Stamford, CT16.9 mi away

2%63

Clarkstown5.6 mi away

1%52

Harrison9.4 mi away

1%44

Everywhere elseother towns and states

28%1,124

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

How far

How far Sleepy Hollow commutes

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

44%

33%

18%

44%Under 10 mi

33%10–24 mi

18%25–50 mi

5%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Sleepy Hollow is balanced between jobs and homes

0.78jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.78 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Sleepy Hollow are

3,093 jobs are based in Sleepy Hollow. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Sleepy Hollow’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Sleepy Hollow

3,093 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)5%

Trade, transport & utilities3%

Services (health, schools, offices…)92%

$1,250 a month or less7%

$1,251–$3,333 a month15%

Over $3,333 a month78%

Jobs Sleepy Hollow residents hold

3,977 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities17%

Services (health, schools, offices…)73%

$1,250 a month or less10%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month67%

+9%

Jobs based in Sleepy Hollow, 2013 → 2023: 2,846 → 3,093. 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.