Old Brown's Mill School · Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD · CC BY-SA 3.0Antrim Township has lower unemployment (2.5%) than 77% of U.S. towns
Measured by household income, Antrim Township is ahead of 72% of U.S. towns. Jobs and income earn Antrim Township A−; getting around on foot earns it D. About one in ten stay in Antrim Township for work; outside it, Chambersburg is the main destination (9%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Antrim Township apart on work
Stores, warehouses and trucking
50% of the jobs in Antrim Township are in trade, transport and utilities, against 25% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Antrim Township makes and builds things
36% of the jobs based in Antrim Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Antrim Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 21%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
How Antrim Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Antrim Township is better than 75% of U.S. towns, #380 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. The poverty rate holds Antrim Township’s grade up (4.0%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 30% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Antrim Township could be anywhere from B to A.
Goods jobs make up 36% of work in Antrim Township
5,508 jobs are based in Antrim Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Antrim Township, 2013 → 2023: 5,262 → 5,508. 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 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Antrim Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Antrim Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 6,282 residents head out to work, 748 work right here, and 4,760 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 (0.78 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The places Antrim Township commutes to
Where Antrim Township clocks in
9% of workers
8% 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.
About 23 minutes each way, quicker than most of Pennsylvania
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Antrim Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 7,038 commuters (the 10% who work from home are left out). Across Pennsylvania: 81% drive alone, 4% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Short hops and long hauls from Antrim Township
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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Antrim Township, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Antrim Township is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns, #944 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Both inputs place Antrim Township near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 7,831 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). 3.3% of Antrim Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Antrim Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Antrim Township is 740th of 1,888 U.S. towns of 12,000 to 22,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plain Township OH | 13,257 | $219K | 2.1% | 0.8% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 3 | Trophy Club TX | 13,695 | $201K | 2.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Lower Moreland Township PA | 14,116 | $154K | 2.6% | 2.0% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | West Whiteland Township PA | 20,826 | $133K | 3.0% | 1.7% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Skippack Township PA | 14,502 | $148K | 2.5% | 2.4% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 738 | Lincolnwood IL | 13,039 | $110K | 6.3% | 7.8% | 6% | A− |
| 739 | Bellingham MA | 18,032 | $125K | 5.7% | 7.4% | 9% | A− |
| 740 | Antrim Township PA | 16,481 | $94K | 4.0% | 2.5% | 11% | A− |
| 741 | Greene Township PA | 18,721 | $88K | 6.2% | 2.2% | 8% | A− |
| 742 | Vineyard UT | 16,092 | $103K | 10.1% | 2.5% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 1,888 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Antrim Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Around Antrim Township: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Guilford Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Antrim Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antrim Township | – | A− | D | 23 min | $94,205 |
| Montgomery Township | under 2% | B− | B− | 37 min | $98,640 |
| Washington Township | 2% | B | C | 27 min | $78,477 |
| St. Thomas Township | under 2% | C+ | C | 25 min | $73,642 |
| Peters Township | under 2% | B− | C+ | 30 min | $76,829 |
| Quincy Township | under 2% | C | B | 17 min | $63,357 |
| Guilford Township | 4% | B | B− | 23 min | $78,389 |
| Marion | under 2% | — | — | 19 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Marion: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Antrim Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, 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 Antrim Township: questions
What is the median household income in Antrim Township?
$94,205 (±$6,791) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Antrim Township?
4.0%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Antrim Township?
23 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Antrim Township work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Chambersburg (9%, 7 mi), Greencastle (8%, 3 mi), Hagerstown (8%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Antrim Township walkable?
Antrim Township is more walkable than 15% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Antrim Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Antrim Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Antrim Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, 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.