Photo: User:Dincher · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Blossburg have lower incomes than those in 60% of U.S. towns
5% of workers work from home, where Pennsylvania as a whole has 16%. The poverty rate is 13.2%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania. Blossburg grades C− for jobs and income and B− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Blossburg and work: the main findings
Inside Blossburg’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Blossburg is better than 20% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Blossburg’s grade up ($68,791, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 11% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.1%) is left out: Blossburg’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, Blossburg could be anywhere from D to C.
52% of the jobs in Blossburg make or build things
858 jobs are based in Blossburg.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Blossburg, 2014 → 2024: 855 → 858. 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 Blossburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Blossburg by day
On a workday 570 residents head out to work, 45 work right here, and 813 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Blossburg on a workday afternoon, 16% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.40 per resident).
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 the trip to work from Blossburg ends
Where Blossburg clocks in
16% of workers
10% 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.
About 22 minutes to work from Blossburg
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Blossburg workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 811 commuters (the 5% 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.
The distance from Blossburg to work
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most of Blossburg commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Blossburg is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Blossburg 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 852 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). 7.9% of Blossburg households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Blossburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000, Blossburg ranks 4,408th of 6,308 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,406 | Dover VT | 1,827 | $52K | 7.3% | 2.8% | 32% | C− |
| 4,407 | Winnebago MN | 1,383 | $60K | 11.1% | 7.3% | 16% | C− |
| 4,408 | Blossburg PA | 1,496 | $69K | 13.2% | 5.1% | 7% | C− |
| 4,409 | New Lyme Township OH | 1,026 | $55K | 13.2% | 7.2% | <1% | C− |
| 4,410 | Concord VT | 1,159 | $73K | 13.2% | 1.7% | 5% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | 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 Blossburg, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Next door to Blossburg
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Blossburg workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blossburg | – | C− | B− | 22 min | $68,791 |
| Hamilton Township | under 2% | — | — | 34 min | — |
| Bloss Township | under 2% | — | — | 19 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Hamilton Township and Bloss Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Blossburg’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 Blossburg: questions
What is the median household income in Blossburg?
$68,791 (±$2,909) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Blossburg?
13.2%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Blossburg?
22 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Blossburg work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wellsboro (16%, 13 mi), Charleston Township (10%, 9 mi), Mansfield (6%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Blossburg walkable?
Blossburg is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.6 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Blossburg without a car?
1% 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 Blossburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Blossburg
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.