Photo: Alan Kotok on Flickr · CC BY 2.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Chapman Township works elsewhere
Only 3% stay in Chapman Township for work; outside it, Penn Township is the main destination (7%, 9 miles). Employers in Chapman Township report 127 jobs for 559 working residents. Chapman Township grades C+ for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Chapman Township, in brief
What’s behind Chapman Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Chapman Township is better than 36% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Chapman Township’s grade up ($81,016, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 23% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.4%) is left out: Chapman 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, Chapman Township could be anywhere from C− to B.
In and out of Chapman Township on a workday
On a workday 541 residents head out to work, 18 work right here, and 109 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Chapman Township on a workday afternoon, 27% 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.
The places Chapman Township commutes to
Where Chapman 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.
What Chapman Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Chapman Township, 2014 → 2024: 99 → 127. 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 Chapman Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Chapman Township takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Chapman Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 653 commuters (the 17% 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.
Where in the region Chapman Township works
About 17% 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.
Few in Chapman Township walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Chapman Township is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 24.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 784 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). 30.4% of Chapman Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Chapman Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,100, Chapman Township ranks 3,003rd of 5,794 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,001 | Valley Brook Township KS | 1,503 | $77K | 12.6% | 0.0% | 9% | C+ |
| 3,002 | Junius NY | 1,364 | $77K | 13.0% | 2.3% | 2% | C+ |
| 3,003 | Chapman Township PA | 1,575 | $81K | 11.9% | 1.4% | 3% | C+ |
| 3,004 | Little Black WI | 1,145 | $69K | 8.1% | 0.4% | 3% | C+ |
| 3,005 | Akron IN | 1,102 | $59K | 7.3% | 8.5% | 6% | 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 Chapman Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Work next door: 10% of Chapman Township’s workers
The biggest share goes to Union Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Chapman Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chapman Township | – | C+ | B | 24 min | $81,016 |
| Union Township | 4% | C | B | 28 min | $76,339 |
| Perry Township | 3% | B+ | B | 23 min | $65,236 |
| Lower Mahanoy Township | under 3% | C+ | C+ | 30 min | $69,904 |
| Susquehanna Township | under 3% | B− | B− | 37 min | $70,833 |
| Port Trevorton | under 3% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Washington Township | 3% | C+ | B− | 25 min | $74,519 |
Same-state neighbors only. Port Trevorton: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Chapman 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 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 Chapman Township: questions
What is the median household income in Chapman Township?
$81,016 (±$14,443) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Chapman Township?
11.9%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Chapman Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Chapman Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Penn Township (7%, 9 mi), Selinsgrove (6%, 9 mi), Union Township (4%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Chapman Township walkable?
Chapman Township is more walkable than 61% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 24% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Chapman Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 30% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Chapman Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Chapman Township
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.