Work & commute · Wappingers Falls

Work & commute in Wappingers Falls, NY

Most working residents leave Wappingers Falls for work: only 7% work in town. The top destinations are New York (16%), Poughkeepsie (11%) and Wappinger (11%). Half commute less than 16 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

181 of 2,614 working residents

Typical commute

16 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

10%

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 2,433 Wappingers Falls residents head out of town to work, 181 work right here, and 3,301 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Wappingers Falls.

2,433live here, work elsewhere

181live and work here

3,301work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Wappingers Falls goes to work

New York64.6 mi away

16%411

Poughkeepsie4.8 mi away

11%298

Wappinger1.5 mi away

11%292

Fishkill5.7 mi away

6%156

Poughkeepsie6.7 mi away

5%121

East Fishkill7.6 mi away

3%88

Newburgh7.8 mi away

2%62

Beacon7 mi away

2%54

LaGrange8.7 mi away

2%47

Hyde Park14.9 mi away

1%36

Everywhere elseother towns and states

40%1,049

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

How far

How far Wappingers Falls commutes

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

44%

15%

14%

27%

44%Under 10 mi

15%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

27%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Wappingers Falls is balanced between jobs and homes

1.33jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (1.33 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Wappingers Falls are

3,482 jobs are based in Wappingers Falls. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Wappingers Falls’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Wappingers Falls

3,482 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)2%

Trade, transport & utilities15%

Services (health, schools, offices…)83%

$1,250 a month or less16%

$1,251–$3,333 a month25%

Over $3,333 a month59%

Jobs Wappingers Falls residents hold

2,614 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)10%

Trade, transport & utilities21%

Services (health, schools, offices…)69%

$1,250 a month or less14%

$1,251–$3,333 a month23%

Over $3,333 a month63%

+30%

Jobs based in Wappingers Falls, 2013 → 2023: 2,678 → 3,482. 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.