Photo: Nicholas · CC BY 2.0At 5.0%, unemployment in Bald Eagle Township is higher than in 61% of U.S. towns
Home is the office for 7% of workers, where Pennsylvania as a whole has 16%. The two grades for Bald Eagle Township are C for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Only 6% stay in Bald Eagle Township for work; outside it, Lock Haven is the main destination (12%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Bald Eagle Township and work: the main findings
Bald Eagle Township is where the jobs are
Bald Eagle Township has 1,291 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
53% of the jobs in Bald Eagle Township are in trade, transport and utilities, against 19% of the jobs its residents hold. 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; with 834 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Bald Eagle Township’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Bald Eagle Township is better than 27% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Bald Eagle Township’s grade up ($75,685, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (21.0%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Bald Eagle Township could be anywhere from D to B+.
Who leaves Bald Eagle Township for work, and who comes in
On a workday 785 residents head out to work, 49 work right here, and 1,242 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,500 people are in Bald Eagle Township on a workday afternoon, 22% more than live here.
1.5 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than 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.
Inside Bald Eagle Township’s 1,291 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bald Eagle Township, 2013 → 2023: 1,188 → 1,291. 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 Bald Eagle Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who travels to work in Bald Eagle Township, and from where
Where Bald Eagle Township clocks in
12% of workers
5% 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.
Time on the road from Bald Eagle Township: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bald Eagle Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 917 commuters (the 7% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Bald Eagle Township
About 27% 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.
Getting around Bald Eagle Township: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bald Eagle Township is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 986 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). 1.2% of Bald Eagle Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Bald Eagle Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
3,837th of 5,793: where Bald Eagle Township ranks among U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 31 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 57 | West Conshohocken PA | 1,498 | $139K | 5.0% | 1.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,835 | Wheeling Township OH | 1,541 | $54K | 8.1% | 5.6% | 2% | C |
| 3,836 | Bradford Township PA | 2,796 | $56K | 12.8% | 4.3% | 7% | C |
| 3,837 | Bald Eagle Township PA | 2,047 | $76K | 21.0% | 5.0% | 6% | C |
| 3,838 | Patrick Springs VA | 2,223 | $63K | 9.3% | 3.7% | 6% | C |
| 3,839 | Pagosa Springs CO | 1,838 | $51K | 18.2% | 0.0% | 49% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,793 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Bald Eagle Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Work in the towns next to Bald Eagle Township
The biggest share goes to Lamar Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bald Eagle Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Eagle Township | – | C | B− | 24 min | $75,685 |
| Mill Hall | under 3% | C− | A− | 29 min | $54,333 |
| Lamar Township | 3% | B | C | 23 min | $92,188 |
| Colebrook Township | under 3% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Castanea Township | 3% | C | D− | 21 min | $59,545 |
| Beech Creek Township | under 3% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Grugan Township | under 3% | — | — | 14 min | — |
| Allison Township | under 3% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Woodward Township | under 3% | B | C+ | 27 min | $86,083 |
Same-state neighbors only. Colebrook Township, Beech Creek Township, Grugan Township and Allison Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bald Eagle 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 Bald Eagle Township: questions
What is the median household income in Bald Eagle Township?
$75,685 (±$21,528) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bald Eagle Township?
21.0%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bald Eagle Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bald Eagle Township work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lock Haven (12%, 6 mi), College Township (5%, 27 mi), Williamsport (4%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bald Eagle Township walkable?
Bald Eagle Township is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bald Eagle Township without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bald Eagle Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bald Eagle 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.