Many Orange County residents are working harder in order to keep up with the cost of living. A majority of households, 57%, maintain at least two jobs. This includes households where two adults work as well as those households where one adult has at least two jobs. This pattern is not limited to Orange County and is found throughout the Mid-Hudson region.
Overall, workers in Orange County put in a comparable amount of hours as the average Mid-Hudson Valley worker. On average, Orange County workers clock 42.5 hours each week compared with 43.1 for the average worker in the region. 74% of employed Orange County residents work forty hours or more each week as does the same proportion of workers across the region.
Employed Orange County residents do not work as close to home as employed residents in most of the other counties of the region. Workers in Orange County have the second longest travel time of people who work in the Mid-Hudson Valley. On average, people who work in Orange County travel nearly 31 minutes one way to their job compared with the regional average of 28 minutes.
While one-third of employed Orange County residents commute less than fifteen minutes, about three in ten travel over a half hour away one way from their homes to their jobs.
Most employed Orange County residents travel to work in a car alone, as do most workers in the Mid-Hudson Valley.
Nearly six in ten Orange County residents who are employed believe it would be difficult to find a comparable position with a similar commute if they lost their current job. This includes three in ten working residents who say it would be very difficult to do so.
