Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Bigler Township commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
178 jobs are based in Bigler Township, against 501 working residents. Bigler Township grades C− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. Only 4% stay in Bigler Township for work; outside it, Lawrence Township is the main destination (12%, 18 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Bigler Township’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Bigler Township is better than 25% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Bigler Township’s grade up (9.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 18% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.2%) is left out: Bigler Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Bigler Township could be anywhere from D to B−.
Bigler Township on a workday afternoon
On a workday 480 residents head out to work, 21 work right here, and 157 people come in from elsewhere.
About 890 people are in Bigler Township on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
The towns that employ Bigler Township’s residents
Where Bigler Township clocks in
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.
Services make up most of the work in Bigler Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bigler Township, 2013 → 2023: 205 → 178. 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 Bigler Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Bigler Township: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bigler Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 457 commuters (the 9% 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 Bigler Township
About 17% 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.
Few in Bigler Township walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bigler Township is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 5.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 502 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). 7.1% of Bigler Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bigler Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,692nd of 4,312: where Bigler Township ranks among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,690 | Clear Lake WI | 1,100 | $74K | 17.3% | 5.3% | 11% | C− |
| 2,691 | New Haven Township MI | 1,049 | $70K | 10.5% | 3.2% | 4% | C− |
| 2,692 | Bigler Township PA | 1,211 | $61K | 9.4% | 5.2% | 4% | C− |
| 2,693 | Somers MT | 1,280 | $57K | 8.0% | 4.7% | 3% | C− |
| 2,694 | Stanleytown VA | 1,386 | $40K | 9.7% | 4.8% | 2% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Bigler Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
The towns around Bigler Township
The biggest share goes to Woodward Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bigler Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bigler Township | – | C− | C+ | 29 min | $60,625 |
| Knox Township | under 3% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Beccaria Township | under 3% | C− | D | 37 min | $59,896 |
| Woodward Township | 3% | C− | C | 31 min | $61,953 |
| Gulich Township | under 3% | C+ | C− | 33 min | $82,457 |
| Glen Hope | under 3% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Ramey | under 3% | — | — | 39 min | — |
| Jordan Township | 3% | — | — | 30 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Knox Township, Glen Hope, Ramey and Jordan Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Bigler 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 Bigler Township: questions
What is the median household income in Bigler Township?
$60,625 (±$10,605) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bigler Township?
9.4%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bigler Township?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bigler Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lawrence Township (12%, 18 mi), Curwensville (5%, 11 mi), Clearfield (4%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bigler Township walkable?
Bigler Township is more walkable than 37% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bigler Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bigler Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bigler 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.