Photo: Ruhrfisch · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Avis commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
4% of workers work from home (Pennsylvania 16%). Employers in Avis report 259 jobs for 561 working residents. For jobs and income Avis is better than 36% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (A−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Avis apart on work
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Avis
The poverty rate holds Avis’ grade up (9.2%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($60,625, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (7.0%) is left out: Avis’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, Avis could be anywhere from C− to B.
Each way, about 24 minutes from Avis
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Avis workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 585 commuters (the 4% 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 Avis by day
On a workday 549 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 247 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Avis on a workday afternoon, 21% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
14% of working residents work in Williamsport
Where Avis clocks in
14% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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.
The kinds of work in Avis
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Avis, 2013 → 2023: 340 → 259. 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 Avis’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far Avis goes to work
About 23% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Avis
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.6% across Pennsylvania.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 612 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). 10.0% of Avis households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Avis’ commuters take a bus or train.
3,159th of 6,308: where Avis ranks among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,157 | Leavittsburg OH | 1,283 | $54K | 13.2% | 1.5% | 2% | C+ |
| 3,158 | Wanamingo MN | 1,111 | $72K | 13.4% | 2.0% | 5% | C+ |
| 3,159 | Avis PA | 1,461 | $61K | 9.2% | 7.0% | 2% | C+ |
| 3,160 | Savannah NY | 1,607 | $63K | 6.1% | 6.6% | 4% | C+ |
| 3,161 | North Collins NY | 1,252 | $67K | 13.8% | 7.6% | 9% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | 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 Avis, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
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 Avis: questions
What is the median household income in Avis?
$60,625 (±$10,528) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Avis?
9.2%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Avis?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Avis work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Williamsport (14%, 15 mi), Lock Haven (7%, 8 mi), Jersey Shore (6%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Avis walkable?
Avis is more walkable than 76% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 10.6 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Avis without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Avis, from the people who make the trip.
More of Avis
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.