Annville Institute · Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Annville are lower than in 80% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 2% of workers; Kentucky has 10%. The poverty rate is 7.3%, next to 16.1% for Kentucky as a whole. Jobs and income earn Annville C; getting around on foot earns it B−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Annville apart on work
Where Annville’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Annville is better than 26% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Annville’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 15% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.9%) is left out: Annville’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Annville could be anywhere from D to C+.
How long Annville spends getting to work: about 42 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 13.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Annville workers work from home, vs 10% across Kentucky. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 341 commuters (the 2% who work from home are left out). Across Kentucky: 85% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
In and out of Annville on a workday
On a workday 309 residents head out to work, 33 work right here, and 370 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.18 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
8% of working residents work in London
Where Annville clocks in
8% of workers
4% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
What work there is in Annville: 403 jobs
403 jobs are based in Annville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Annville, 2014 → 2024: 153 → 403. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Annville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Annville
About 26% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Annville is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Annville is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 3.1% across Kentucky, on an EPA index of 4.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 347 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Annville households have no vehicle (Kentucky 6.8%, U.S. 8.4%). 6% of Annville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400, Annville ranks 1,880th of 3,133 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 46 | Coldstream KY | 1,325 | $109K | 2.8% | 0.8% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | Heritage Creek KY | 1,244 | $100K | 2.4% | 1.6% | <1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 78 | Verona KY | 1,394 | $145K | 3.2% | 2.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,878 | Lemon Township PA | 1,120 | $81K | 13.3% | 0.6% | 2% | C |
| 1,879 | Bratton Township PA | 1,181 | $63K | 8.5% | 0.6% | 3% | C |
| 1,880 | Annville KY | 1,063 | $56K | 7.3% | 0.9% | 10% | C |
| 1,881 | Bassett VA | 1,031 | $46K | 9.4% | 2.4% | 3% | C |
| 1,882 | Mason Township IL | 1,243 | $78K | 15.6% | 3.4% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Annville, the top three, the last and three more from Kentucky.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Annville: questions
What is the median household income in Annville?
$56,250 (±$8,773) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $63,726 across Kentucky and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Annville?
7.3%, against 16.1% across Kentucky and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Annville?
42 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Kentucky and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Annville work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are London (8%, 16 mi), Lexington (7%, 56 mi), McKee (4%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Annville walkable?
Annville is more walkable than 49% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Annville without a car?
6% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Annville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Annville
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.