Photo: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Bloomfield Township commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Hardly any stay in Bloomfield Township for work; outside it, South Woodbury Township is the main destination (11%, 6 miles). 51 jobs are based in Bloomfield Township; 458 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Bloomfield Township B; getting around on foot earns it C.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Bloomfield Township, in a few figures
What’s behind Bloomfield Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Bloomfield Township is better than 63% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Bloomfield Township’s grade up (6.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 34% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (0.4%) is left out: Bloomfield 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, Bloomfield Township could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Who leaves Bloomfield Township for work, and who comes in
On a workday 457 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 50 people come in from elsewhere.
About 630 people are in Bloomfield Township on a workday afternoon, 39% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where Bloomfield Township’s working residents head each day
Where Bloomfield Township clocks in
11% of workers
9% 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.
Bloomfield Township works in goods: 45% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bloomfield Township, 2014 → 2024: 88 → 51. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Bloomfield Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Bloomfield Township’s commute takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bloomfield Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 430 commuters (the 10% 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.
Bloomfield Township’s commute, mile by mile
About 21% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most trips from Bloomfield Township start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Bloomfield Township is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Bloomfield 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 478 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). 7.7% of Bloomfield Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Bloomfield Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Bloomfield Township next to U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400: 650th of 3,133 on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 648 | Deerwood Township MN | 1,392 | $95K | 3.1% | 2.4% | 2% | B |
| 649 | St. Anne IL | 1,122 | $83K | 5.3% | 7.3% | 9% | B |
| 650 | Bloomfield Township PA | 1,040 | $91K | 6.1% | 0.4% | <1% | B |
| 651 | Plymouth WI | 1,175 | $86K | 7.8% | 2.1% | 1% | B |
| 652 | Harriston VA | 1,212 | $93K | 8.3% | 0.0% | <1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Bloomfield Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Bordering towns draw 14% of Bloomfield Township’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Bloomfield Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloomfield Township | – | B | C | 26 min | $90,500 |
| Greenfield Township | 3% | C+ | B− | 24 min | $60,590 |
| Kimmel Township | under 3% | C | D− | 29 min | $62,000 |
| Taylor Township | under 3% | B+ | C+ | 19 min | $78,950 |
| Woodbury Township | under 3% | B− | B+ | 21 min | $63,966 |
| South Woodbury Township | 11% | B− | B | 28 min | $74,722 |
| King Township | under 3% | B− | D | 25 min | $73,942 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to South Woodbury Township. Darker towns draw more of Bloomfield 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 2024, 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 Bloomfield Township: questions
What is the median household income in Bloomfield Township?
$90,500 (±$18,961) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bloomfield Township?
6.1%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bloomfield Township?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bloomfield Township work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are South Woodbury Township (11%, 6 mi), Bedford Township (9%, 14 mi), Altoona (4%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Bloomfield Township walkable?
Bloomfield Township is more walkable than 31% 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 Bloomfield Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Bloomfield Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bloomfield Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.