Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0A job hub: Castanea Township has 2.4 jobs per working resident, and 1,114 people come in to work
Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers, next to 16% for Pennsylvania as a whole. There are 1,137 jobs in Castanea Township, and 473 of its residents work somewhere. Castanea Township grades C for jobs and income and D− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Castanea Township
Castanea Township makes and builds things
84% of the jobs based in Castanea Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Castanea Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 30%. The jobs ↓
Castanea Township is where the jobs are
Castanea Township has 1,137 jobs, 2.4 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 1,800 people are in town, 61% more than the 1,100 who live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of Castanea Township works one town over
31% of working residents work in a town that borders Castanea Township: Lock Haven (15%), Wayne Township (5%) and Bald Eagle Township (4%). 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 473 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Castanea Township’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty and job access, Castanea Township is better than 31% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Castanea Township’s grade up (10.9%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($59,545, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (2.8%) is left out: Castanea 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, Castanea Township could be anywhere from D to B.
Making and building: 84% of jobs based in Castanea Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Castanea Township, 2013 → 2023: 862 → 1,137. 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 Castanea Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In and out of Castanea Township on a workday
On a workday 450 residents head out to work and 23 work right here.
About 1,800 people are in Castanea Township on a workday afternoon, 61% more 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.
Commuting in to Castanea Township: where workers come from
Where Castanea Township clocks in
15% 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 21 minutes each way, quicker than most of Pennsylvania
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Castanea Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 618 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 Castanea Township to work
About 23% 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.
Driving is how Castanea Township gets around
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 650 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). 0.6% of Castanea Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Castanea Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, Castanea Township comes 2,064th 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 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,062 | Waltz Township IN | 1,198 | $85K | 16.9% | 0.0% | 1% | C |
| 2,063 | Jefferson Township OH | 1,393 | $93K | 13.8% | 3.6% | 1% | C |
| 2,064 | Castanea Township PA | 1,093 | $60K | 10.9% | 2.8% | 5% | C |
| 2,065 | Meridian TX | 1,403 | $66K | 7.7% | 0.8% | 12% | C |
| 2,066 | Napoli NY | 1,201 | $92K | 16.5% | 5.1% | <1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Castanea Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Next door is work for 31% of Castanea Township
The biggest share goes to Lock Haven (15%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Castanea Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castanea Township | – | C | D− | 21 min | $59,545 |
| Lock Haven | 15% | D | A | 18 min | $46,102 |
| Woodward Township | under 3% | B | C+ | 27 min | $86,083 |
| Bald Eagle Township | 4% | C | B− | 24 min | $75,685 |
| Dunnstown | under 3% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Flemington | 4% | C− | B | 16 min | $53,824 |
| Lamar Township | 3% | B | C | 23 min | $92,188 |
| Dunnstable Township | under 3% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Wayne Township | 5% | C+ | B− | 22 min | $72,396 |
Same-state neighbors only. Dunnstown: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Dunnstable Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Castanea 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 Castanea Township: questions
What is the median household income in Castanea Township?
$59,545 (±$13,406) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Castanea Township?
10.9%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Castanea Township?
21 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Castanea Township work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lock Haven (15%, 2 mi), Williamsport (8%, 22 mi), Wayne Township (5%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Castanea Township walkable?
Castanea Township is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 4.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Castanea Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Castanea Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Castanea 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.