Photo: Nyttend · Public domainBroad Top Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
48 jobs are based in Broad Top Township for 571 working residents. Jobs and income earn Broad Top Township C−; getting around on foot earns it D. For 3% of workers, the job is at home, against 16% across Pennsylvania.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Broad Top Township, in brief
Broad Top Township is a place people come home to
There are 48 jobs based in Broad Top Township, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Broad Top Township has about 930 people in it, 36% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Broad Top Township workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 34 minutes each way, against 26 across Pennsylvania. Over a year that’s about 261 hours of commuting, 61 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Broad Top Township workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 16% across Pennsylvania. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
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 571 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Broad Top Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Broad Top Township is better than 20% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Broad Top Township’s grade up (9.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 5% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (6.9%) is left out: Broad Top 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, Broad Top Township could be anywhere from D to B−.
Broad Top Township quiets down on a workday
On a workday 566 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 43 people come in from elsewhere.
About 930 people are in Broad Top Township on a workday afternoon, 36% 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.
Getting to work from Broad Top Township takes about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Broad Top Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 578 commuters (the 3% 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.
11% of working residents work in East Providence Township
Where Broad Top Township clocks in
11% of workers
9% of workers
6% 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.
The kinds of work in Broad Top Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Broad Top Township, 2013 → 2023: 150 → 48. 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 Broad Top Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Broad Top Township to work
About 20% 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.
In Broad Top Township, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Broad Top Township is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns. 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 2.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 596 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). 5.1% of Broad Top Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Broad Top Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000, Broad Top Township ranks 4,347th 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% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,345 | Albion PA | 1,479 | $56K | 13.1% | 5.4% | 9% | C− |
| 4,346 | Hillsboro WI | 1,401 | $60K | 12.0% | 7.4% | 20% | C− |
| 4,347 | Broad Top Township PA | 1,454 | $62K | 9.2% | 6.9% | 1% | C− |
| 4,348 | Pahala HI | 1,768 | $72K | 11.3% | 12.7% | 0% | C− |
| 4,349 | Enchanted Hills IN | 1,039 | $65K | 24.6% | 0.0% | <1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | 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 Broad Top Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Bordering towns draw 17% of Broad Top Township’s workers
The biggest share goes to East Providence Township (11%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Broad Top Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broad Top Township | – | C− | D | 34 min | $61,964 |
| Hopewell Township | under 2% | D | C− | 35 min | $64,199 |
| East Providence Township | 11% | D− | D | 36 min | $52,554 |
| Liberty Township | under 2% | C | C | 34 min | $65,234 |
| Hopewell | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Wells Township | under 2% | — | — | 42 min | — |
| Carbon Township | under 2% | — | — | 37 min | — |
| West Providence Township | 6% | B | C+ | 23 min | $79,844 |
| Hopewell Township | under 2% | — | — | 42 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Hopewell, Wells Township, Carbon Township and Hopewell Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Broad Top 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 Broad Top Township: questions
What is the median household income in Broad Top Township?
$61,964 (±$17,010) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Broad Top Township?
9.2%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Broad Top Township?
34 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Broad Top Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are East Providence Township (11%, 10 mi), Bedford Township (9%, 17 mi), West Providence Township (6%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Broad Top Township walkable?
Broad Top Township is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 2.9 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Broad Top Township without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Broad Top Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Broad Top 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.