Photo: White Feather Safari Inspecting Life · CC BY 2.0Most of Cherryhill Township commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Cherryhill Township grades C+ for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. 422 jobs are based in Cherryhill Township, and 998 of its residents work somewhere. 7% of workers work from home (Pennsylvania 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Cherryhill Township
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Cherryhill Township is better than 40% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Cherryhill Township’s grade up (3.8%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 25% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Cherryhill Township could be anywhere from C− to B+.
Who leaves Cherryhill Township for work, and who comes in
On a workday 942 residents head out to work, 56 work right here, and 366 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Cherryhill Township on a workday afternoon, 24% 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.
21% of working residents work in White Township
Where Cherryhill Township clocks in
12% of workers
5% 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 Cherryhill Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cherryhill Township, 2013 → 2023: 376 → 422. 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 Cherryhill Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 25 minutes to work from Cherryhill Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cherryhill Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,056 commuters (the 7% 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 far Cherryhill Township goes 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.
Driving is how Cherryhill Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cherryhill Township is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,134 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). 4.2% of Cherryhill Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cherryhill Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,700 to 3,300, Cherryhill Township ranks 2,877th of 5,207 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 64 | Churchill PA | 3,014 | $107K | 1.9% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 75 | Thornbury Township PA | 3,165 | $172K | 2.4% | 2.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,875 | Burgess Township IL | 2,140 | $65K | 11.6% | 3.1% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,876 | Marion Township OH | 2,453 | $91K | 9.9% | 6.7% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,877 | Cherryhill Township PA | 2,421 | $67K | 9.3% | 3.8% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,878 | Arlington VT | 2,404 | $102K | 7.5% | 6.9% | 16% | C+ |
| 2,879 | Fort Branch IN | 2,936 | $59K | 17.2% | 2.5% | 5% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,207 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Cherryhill Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Bordering towns draw 23% of Cherryhill Township’s workers
The biggest share goes to White Township (21%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Cherryhill Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cherryhill Township | – | C+ | C+ | 25 min | $66,746 |
| Brush Valley Township | under 2% | B− | B− | 28 min | $76,509 |
| Rayne Township | 2% | D | C | 29 min | $60,582 |
| Green Township | under 2% | C | D− | 37 min | $60,274 |
| Pine Township | under 2% | C+ | D | 29 min | $69,375 |
| White Township | 21% | C+ | B | 24 min | $66,186 |
| Dixonville | under 2% | — | — | 48 min | — |
| Heilwood | under 2% | — | — | 33 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Dixonville and Heilwood: Census-designated places inside larger towns, graded as part of them. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Cherryhill 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 Cherryhill Township: questions
What is the median household income in Cherryhill Township?
$66,746 (±$4,941) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cherryhill Township?
9.3%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cherryhill Township?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cherryhill Township work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are White Township (21%, 6 mi), Indiana (12%, 8 mi), Clymer (5%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cherryhill Township walkable?
Cherryhill Township is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cherryhill Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cherryhill Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cherryhill 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.