Curtin Village · Photo: Pubdog · Public domainAt 1.9%, unemployment in Boggs Township is lower than in 86% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Boggs Township are B− for jobs and income and C for walkability. About one in seven work in Boggs Township; the top destination outside it is College Township (16%, 13 miles). 9% of workers work from home, next to 16% for Pennsylvania as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Boggs Township in brief
Boggs Township trades workers with the towns around it
Boggs Township has about as many jobs (1,243) as working residents (1,200), but they are mostly different people: 1,047 residents leave for work each day while 1,090 people come in. Only 12% of the jobs in Boggs Township are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Boggs Township has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Boggs Township went from 829 in 2014 to 1,243 in 2024, +50%. The jobs ↓
Boggs Township makes and builds things
38% of the jobs based in Boggs Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Boggs Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 17%. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
The figures behind Boggs Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Boggs Township is better than 51% of U.S. towns, #685 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Unemployment holds Boggs Township’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 35% of U.S. towns).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Boggs Township could be anywhere from C to B+.
The workday shuffle in and out of Boggs Township
On a workday 1,047 residents head out to work, 153 work right here, and 1,090 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 (1.04 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.
In Boggs Township, 38% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
1,243 jobs are based in Boggs Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Boggs Township, 2014 → 2024: 829 → 1,243. 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 Boggs Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where Boggs Township’s working residents head each day
Where Boggs Township clocks in
16% of workers
8% 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 23 minutes each way for Boggs Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Boggs Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,250 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.
How far Boggs Township’s workers travel
About 19% 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.
Getting around Boggs Township: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Boggs Township is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns, #788 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Both inputs place Boggs 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 1,377 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 under 0.1 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). 3.2% of Boggs Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Boggs Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Boggs Township next to U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,600: 2,181st of 4,797 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
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| 28 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 60 | Churchill PA | 3,014 | $107K | 1.9% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 74 | Thornbury Township PA | 3,165 | $172K | 2.4% | 2.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,179 | Crawford Township OH | 1,971 | $80K | 5.8% | 0.4% | 4% | B− |
| 2,180 | Milford Township PA | 1,962 | $66K | 6.9% | 2.3% | 5% | B− |
| 2,181 | Boggs Township PA | 2,686 | $68K | 11.3% | 1.9% | 13% | B− |
| 2,182 | Homewood SC | 2,708 | $65K | 21.4% | 0.0% | 3% | B− |
| 2,183 | Alderton WA | 2,706 | $97K | 11.1% | 11.8% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,797 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 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 Boggs Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Next door to Boggs Township
The biggest share goes to Spring Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Boggs Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boggs Township | – | B− | C | 23 min | $67,500 |
| Curtin Township | under 2% | — | — | 34 min | — |
| Spring Township | 4% | B | B+ | 20 min | $77,266 |
| Marion Township | under 2% | C+ | C | 28 min | $67,405 |
| Snow Shoe Township | under 2% | C | C | 36 min | $66,161 |
| Howard Township | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Union Township | under 2% | B | D− | 27 min | $88,500 |
Same-state neighbors only. Curtin Township and Howard Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Boggs 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 Boggs Township: questions
What is the median household income in Boggs Township?
$67,500 (±$5,733) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Boggs Township?
11.3%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Boggs Township?
23 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Boggs Township work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are College Township (16%, 13 mi), State College (8%, 15 mi), Bellefonte (7%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Boggs Township walkable?
Boggs Township is more walkable than 33% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Boggs Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Boggs Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Boggs 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.