Photo: Nicholas A. Tonelli from Northeast Pennsylvania, USA · CC BY 2.0Where Asylum Township earns its living
Only 2% stay in Asylum Township for work; outside it, Wysox Township is the main destination (15%, 8 miles). Jobs and income earn Asylum Township C+; getting around on foot earns it D−. Working from home is the commute for 1% of workers; Pennsylvania has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Asylum Township apart on work
Fewer jobs are based in Asylum Township than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Asylum Township fell from 670 in 2013 to 302 in 2023, −55%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
52% of the jobs in Asylum Township are in trade, transport and utilities, against 21% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Few Asylum Township workers work from home
Only 1% of workers work from home, against 16% across Pennsylvania. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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; with 403 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Asylum Township’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Asylum Township is better than 37% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Asylum Township’s grade up (7.7%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 12% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.4%) is left out: Asylum Township’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, Asylum Township could be anywhere from C− to B.
Asylum Township makes things: 33% of its jobs are in goods
302 jobs are based in Asylum Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Asylum Township, 2013 → 2023: 670 → 302. 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 Asylum Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 24 minutes in Asylum Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Asylum Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 447 commuters (the 1% 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.
How many people are in Asylum Township by day
On a workday 393 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 292 people come in from elsewhere.
About 900 people are in Asylum Township on a workday afternoon, 10% fewer than live here.
0.75 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Asylum Township’s working residents head each day
Where Asylum Township clocks in
9% 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.
How many miles Asylum Township commutes
About 22% 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.
For most of Asylum Township, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Asylum Township is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Asylum 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 450 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.0% of Asylum Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Asylum Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Asylum Township is 1,486th among 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 7 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
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| 11 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
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| 22 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
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| 1,484 | Ward Township IN | 1,033 | $73K | 9.6% | 2.9% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,485 | Coitsville Township OH | 1,234 | $59K | 13.9% | 9.7% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,486 | Asylum Township PA | 1,000 | $73K | 7.7% | 0.4% | 2% | C+ |
| 1,487 | Orange VT | 1,071 | $71K | 7.6% | 4.7% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,488 | Innovation VA | 1,034 | $32K | 11.9% | 14.2% | 3% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Asylum Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
21% of Asylum Township works in a town next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Asylum Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asylum Township | – | C+ | D− | 24 min | $73,382 |
| Standing Stone Township | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Wysox Township | 15% | D | B | 19 min | $60,357 |
| Wyalusing Township | 6% | C+ | A | 25 min | $90,197 |
| Terry Township | under 2% | — | — | 39 min | — |
| Albany Township | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Standing Stone Township, Terry Township and Albany Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Wysox Township. Darker towns draw more of Asylum 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 Asylum Township: questions
What is the median household income in Asylum Township?
$73,382 (±$15,801) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Asylum Township?
7.7%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Asylum Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Asylum Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wysox Township (15%, 8 mi), Towanda (11%, 6 mi), North Towanda Township (9%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Asylum Township walkable?
Asylum Township is more walkable than 3% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Asylum Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Asylum Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Asylum 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.