Photo: Smallbones · Public domainMaking a living in Bloomfield
Only 4% stay in Bloomfield for work; outside it, Harrisburg is the main destination (8%, 19 miles). For jobs and income Bloomfield is better than 49% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 93% of U.S. towns (A). Working from home is the commute for 7% of workers, against 16% across Pennsylvania.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What’s behind Bloomfield’s Jobs & income grade
All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Bloomfield’s grade.
Unemployment (2.9%) is left out: Bloomfield’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, Bloomfield could be anywhere from C to B+.
How a workday changes Bloomfield
On a workday 514 residents head out to work, 23 work right here, and 579 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.12 per resident).
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 places Bloomfield commutes to
Where Bloomfield clocks in
8% of workers
5% 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.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
602 jobs are based in Bloomfield.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Bloomfield, 2013 → 2023: 663 → 602. 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 Bloomfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Bloomfield: about 28 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Bloomfield workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 432 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.
Half of Bloomfield commutes less than 19 miles
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.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Bloomfield is easy on foot, hard by bus
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 464 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). 0.8% of Bloomfield households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 7% of Bloomfield’s commuters take a bus or train.
Bloomfield next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700: 1,693rd of 4,866 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% | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,691 | Lyles TN | 1,385 | $68K | 8.7% | 0.0% | 0% | B− |
| 1,692 | Gridley IL | 1,428 | $67K | 5.7% | 2.6% | 2% | B− |
| 1,693 | Bloomfield PA | 1,248 | $74K | 9.5% | 2.9% | 4% | B− |
| 1,694 | Lincoln Township KS | 1,582 | $66K | 4.5% | 1.3% | 15% | B− |
| 1,695 | Milford Township OH | 1,102 | $106K | 14.5% | 0.0% | 1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Bloomfield, 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 Bloomfield: questions
What is the median household income in Bloomfield?
$73,542 (±$11,142) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Bloomfield?
9.5%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Bloomfield?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Bloomfield work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Harrisburg (8%, 19 mi), Hampden Township (5%, 16 mi), East Pennsboro Township (4%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Bloomfield walkable?
Bloomfield is more walkable than 93% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 10.3 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Bloomfield without a car?
7% 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 Bloomfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Bloomfield
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.