Photo: Jakec · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Catawissa commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
Measured by household income, Catawissa is behind 85% of U.S. towns. Catawissa has 115 jobs; 683 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Catawissa is better than 21% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns (A−).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Catawissa, in brief
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Catawissa
Job access by car holds Catawissa’s grade up (ahead of 50% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($51,992, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (6.2%) is left out: Catawissa’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, Catawissa could be anywhere from D to C+.
Catawissa quiets down on a workday
On a workday 673 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 105 people come in from elsewhere.
About 970 people are in Catawissa on a workday afternoon, 37% 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 2024, primary jobs.
14% of working residents work in Bloomsburg
Where Catawissa clocks in
14% of workers
13% 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.
Jobs in Catawissa: what the 115 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Catawissa, 2014 → 2024: 143 → 115. 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 Catawissa’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Catawissa, about 24 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Catawissa workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 773 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.
How many miles Catawissa commutes
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Catawissa, walking beats the bus
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 3.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.6% across Pennsylvania.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 817 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). 12.3% of Catawissa households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Catawissa’s commuters take a bus or train.
Catawissa is 3,989th of 5,794 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 31 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 41 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,987 | Whidbey Island Station WA | 2,027 | $46K | 7.4% | 6.9% | 2% | C− |
| 3,988 | Hanley Hills MO | 1,963 | $53K | 33.9% | 10.8% | <1% | C− |
| 3,989 | Catawissa PA | 1,539 | $52K | 16.4% | 6.2% | 1% | C− |
| 3,990 | Cape Charles VA | 1,314 | $74K | 13.2% | 2.9% | 16% | C− |
| 3,991 | Oak Grove Township IN | 1,597 | $55K | 12.0% | 4.6% | 2% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,794 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Catawissa, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Work in the towns next to Catawissa
The biggest share goes to Montour Township (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Catawissa workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catawissa | – | C− | A− | 24 min | $51,992 |
| Montour Township | 2% | B− | B | 20 min | $68,203 |
| Catawissa Township | under 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Catawissa Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Catawissa’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 Catawissa: questions
What is the median household income in Catawissa?
$51,992 (±$6,964) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Catawissa?
16.4%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Catawissa?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Catawissa work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bloomsburg (14%, 3 mi), Mahoning Township (13%, 7 mi), Hemlock Township (6%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Catawissa walkable?
Catawissa is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 11.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Catawissa without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Catawissa, from the people who make the trip.
More of Catawissa
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.