Many Dutchess County residents are working harder in order to keep up with the cost of living. A majority of households in the county hold at least two jobs. This includes households where one adult holds more than one job as well as those households where at least two adult earners work. This pattern is consistent throughout the Mid-Hudson region, it is not unique to Dutchess County.
Dutchess County workers work an average of 42.3 hours each week. 70% of employed Dutchess County residents work forty hours or more each week including 33% of workers who work fifty hours a week or more. On average, workers in Dutchess County clock a comparable amount of hours as the typical Mid-Hudson Valley worker. Those employed in the region put in a weekly average of 43.1 hours and 74% clock forty or more hours weekly.
Dutchess County residents who are employed travel an average of 26.3 minutes to get to work each day. This compares with the regional average of 28.0 minutes.
Three in four employed Dutchess County residents have a work commute of a half hour or less. 35% of workers in the county travel less than fifteen minutes and 40% spend between fifteen and thirty minutes one way to get to work daily. About one in five workers experience travel times between thirty-one minutes and an hour, and 6% commute over an hour away from their homes to their jobs.
Most employed Dutchess County residents travel to work in a car alone. 82% of workers in the county drive to work by car by themselves as do 82% of those employed across the region.
42% of Dutchess County working residents say it would not be difficult to find similar work within the same distance from their home as their current position if they were to lose their job. 58% say it would be difficult including more than a quarter who say it would be very difficult to do so.
