Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0Biglerville has 0.6 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs & income C−: better than 19% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability B−: more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns.
Household incomes here are lower than in 85% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 23 minutes each way (Pennsylvania 26, U.S. 26). Only 3% work in Biglerville; the top destination outside it is Gettysburg (8%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Biglerville
Biglerville makes and builds things
68% of the jobs based in Biglerville are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Biglerville residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 30%. The jobs ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Biglerville than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Biglerville fell from 677 in 2013 to 362 in 2023, −47%. 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 ↓
The jobs in Biglerville pay better than its residents’ jobs
74% of the jobs based in Biglerville pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 55% of the jobs Biglerville residents hold. 95% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Biglerville. 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 631 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Biglerville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Biglerville is better than 19% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Biglerville’s grade up (ahead of 55% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (21.8%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (10.2%) is left out: Biglerville’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, Biglerville could be anywhere from D to C+.
Biglerville makes things: 68% of its jobs are in goods
362 jobs are based in Biglerville. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Biglerville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Biglerville, 2013 → 2023: 677 → 362. 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.
Biglerville quiets down on a workday
On a workday 614 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 345 people come in from elsewhere.
About 970 people are in Biglerville on a workday afternoon, 22% fewer than live here.
0.57 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.
8% of working residents work in Gettysburg
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Biglerville clocks in
8% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
About 23 minutes each way, quicker than most of Pennsylvania
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Biglerville workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 492 commuters (the 6% who work from home are left out). Across Pennsylvania: 81% drive alone, 4% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Half of Biglerville commutes less than 15 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 18% 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.
Most trips from Biglerville start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Biglerville is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 5.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 525 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 0.0 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). 4.8% of Biglerville households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Biglerville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Biglerville is 3,417th of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Biglerville, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,415 | Glendale MS | 1,257 | $57K | 30.1% | 2.9% | 1% | C− |
| 3,416 | Champlain NY | 1,122 | $65K | 12.5% | 3.8% | 7% | C− |
| 3,417 | Biglerville PA | 1,240 | $52K | 21.8% | 10.2% | 3% | C− |
| 3,418 | Falls Creek PA | 1,002 | $51K | 15.6% | 5.3% | 4% | C− |
| 3,419 | Elk Township MI | 1,498 | $62K | 11.2% | 7.1% | 3% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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.
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 Biglerville: questions
What is the median household income in Biglerville?
$52,407 (±$9,672) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Biglerville?
21.8%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Biglerville?
23 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Biglerville work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Gettysburg (8%, 7 mi), Straban Township (6%, 5 mi), Butler Township (5%, 1 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Biglerville walkable?
Biglerville is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Biglerville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Biglerville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Biglerville
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.