Brush Valley Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Jobs and income earn Brush Valley Township B−; getting around on foot earns it B−. Brush Valley Township has 50 jobs, and 642 of its residents work somewhere. Working from home is the commute for 8% of workers, where Pennsylvania as a whole has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Brush Valley Township apart
Brush Valley Township is a place people come home to
There are 50 jobs based in Brush Valley Township, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Brush Valley Township has about 1,100 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of Brush Valley Township works one town over
25% of working residents work in a town that borders Brush Valley Township: White Township (12%), Burrell Township (6%) and East Wheatfield Township (5%). Next door ↓
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 642 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The four measures behind Brush Valley Township’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Brush Valley Township is better than 51% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Brush Valley Township’s grade up (6.5%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 30% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (4.9%) is left out: Brush Valley 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, Brush Valley Township could be anywhere from C to B+.
The daily commute in and out of Brush Valley Township
On a workday 634 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 42 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Brush Valley Township on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
12% of working residents work in White Township
Where Brush Valley Township clocks in
7% 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.
Goods, not services: 50% of the jobs in Brush Valley Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Brush Valley Township, 2013 → 2023: 97 → 50. 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 Brush Valley Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Brush Valley Township takes about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Brush Valley Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 696 commuters (the 8% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Brush Valley Township
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.
Getting around Brush Valley Township: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Brush Valley Township is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 9.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 3.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 754 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 Brush Valley Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Brush Valley Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,099th of 5,760: where Brush Valley Township ranks among U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 37 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,097 | Irondale Township MN | 1,272 | $87K | 6.2% | 12.5% | <1% | B− |
| 2,098 | Hartford Township OH | 1,819 | $96K | 17.5% | 0.6% | 2% | B− |
| 2,099 | Brush Valley Township PA | 1,672 | $77K | 6.5% | 4.9% | 1% | B− |
| 2,100 | Roaring Spring PA | 2,280 | $63K | 13.4% | 1.7% | 9% | B− |
| 2,101 | New Fairview TX | 1,666 | $92K | 28.9% | 1.1% | 2% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Brush Valley Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
The towns next door employ 25% of Brush Valley Township
The biggest share goes to White Township (12%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Brush Valley Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brush Valley Township | – | B− | B− | 28 min | $76,509 |
| Cherryhill Township | under 2% | C+ | C+ | 25 min | $66,746 |
| West Wheatfield Township | 2% | C+ | C | 35 min | $72,500 |
| East Wheatfield Township | 5% | C | D | 32 min | $51,164 |
| White Township | 12% | C+ | B | 24 min | $66,186 |
| Center Township | under 2% | C | B | 22 min | $70,236 |
| Buffington Township | under 2% | C | D− | 22 min | $65,662 |
| Burrell Township | 6% | B− | C− | 20 min | $50,948 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Brush Valley 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 Brush Valley Township: questions
What is the median household income in Brush Valley Township?
$76,509 (±$10,497) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Brush Valley Township?
6.5%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Brush Valley Township?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Brush Valley Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are White Township (12%, 8 mi), Indiana (7%, 8 mi), Burrell Township (6%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Brush Valley Township walkable?
Brush Valley Township is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 3.1 out of 20, and 10% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Brush Valley 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 Brush Valley Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Brush Valley 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.