Photo: Clint · CC BY-SA 2.0Brady Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
For jobs and income Brady Township is better than 51% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (D). There are 29 jobs in Brady Township, against 558 working residents. Hardly any work in Brady Township itself; outside it, Pittsburgh draws the most (13%, 38 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Brady Township and work: the main findings
Brady Township is a place people come home to
There are 29 jobs based in Brady Township, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Brady Township has about 660 people in it, 45% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Brady Township’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Brady Township is Pittsburgh, 38 miles away as the crow flies. 13% of working residents (72) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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 558 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Brady Township’s Jobs & income grade comes from
The poverty rate holds Brady Township’s grade up (8.6%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 40% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (4.1%) is left out: Brady Township’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, Brady Township could be anywhere from C to B+.
Who leaves Brady Township for work, and who comes in
On a workday 555 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 26 people come in from elsewhere.
About 660 people are in Brady Township on a workday afternoon, 45% 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 2023, primary jobs.
Where in the region Brady Township works
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.
Where people from Brady Township work
Where Brady Township clocks in
13% of workers
6% 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.
Jobs in Brady Township: what the 29 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brady Township, 2013 → 2023: 46 → 29. 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 Brady Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Brady Township, about 25 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brady Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 466 commuters (the 13% 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.
For most of Brady Township, work means a drive
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 4.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 537 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). 6.7% of Brady Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Brady Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Brady Township ranks: 1,397th of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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+ |
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| 8 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
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| 13 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
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| 27 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
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| 1,395 | Somerset Township OH | 1,217 | $77K | 1.9% | 17.3% | 1% | B− |
| 1,396 | Stevensville MI | 1,154 | $64K | 7.5% | 3.2% | 2% | B− |
| 1,397 | Brady Township PA | 1,184 | $79K | 8.6% | 4.1% | 1% | B− |
| 1,398 | Greenfield Township IN | 1,363 | $65K | 3.9% | 0.0% | 1% | B− |
| 1,399 | Irondale Township MN | 1,272 | $87K | 6.2% | 12.5% | <1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Brady Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Around Brady Township: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to Slippery Rock Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Brady Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brady Township | – | B− | D | 25 min | $78,977 |
| Franklin Township | under 2% | B | C | 24 min | $77,593 |
| West Liberty | under 2% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| Slippery Rock Township | 4% | D | B+ | 25 min | $56,556 |
| Worth Township | under 2% | B− | C− | 32 min | $68,611 |
| Clay Township | under 2% | B | C+ | 30 min | $83,661 |
Same-state neighbors only. West Liberty: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Brady 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 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 Brady Township: questions
What is the median household income in Brady Township?
$78,977 (±$12,348) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Brady Township?
8.6%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brady Township?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brady Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pittsburgh (13%, 38 mi), Slippery Rock (6%, 6 mi), Butler Township (5%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Brady Township walkable?
Brady Township is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Brady Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Brady Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brady Township
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.