Photo: Ruhrfisch · CC BY-SA 3.0Cleveland Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Cleveland Township has 112 jobs for 479 working residents. The two grades for Cleveland Township are C for jobs and income and C− for walkability. At home: 4% of workers have no commute at all (Pennsylvania 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Cleveland Township stands out on work
Cleveland Township is a place people come home to
There are 112 jobs based in Cleveland Township, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Cleveland Township has about 790 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Cleveland Township workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 16% across Pennsylvania. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 479 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Where Cleveland Township’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Cleveland Township is better than 28% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Cleveland Township’s grade up ($71,923, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 24% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (9.5%) is left out: Cleveland 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, Cleveland Township could be anywhere from D to B.
How a workday changes Cleveland Township
On a workday 471 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 104 people come in from elsewhere.
About 790 people are in Cleveland Township on a workday afternoon, 32% 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.
Commuting from Cleveland Township: about 29 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cleveland Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 474 commuters (the 4% 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.
10% of working residents work in Mahoning Township
Where Cleveland Township clocks in
10% of workers
6% of workers
4% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 40% of the jobs in Cleveland Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cleveland Township, 2014 → 2024: 109 → 112. 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 Cleveland Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Cleveland Township, by distance
About 21% 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.
Cleveland Township is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cleveland Township is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 4.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 494 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). 2.0% of Cleveland Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Cleveland Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Cleveland Township is 2,500th of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 8 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,498 | Green Township IN | 1,002 | $87K | 20.4% | 2.8% | 1% | C |
| 2,499 | Gibson Township MI | 1,107 | $62K | 6.6% | 3.3% | 1% | C |
| 2,500 | Cleveland Township PA | 1,154 | $72K | 12.7% | 9.5% | 2% | C |
| 2,501 | Glover VT | 1,076 | $74K | 9.3% | 3.1% | 7% | C |
| 2,502 | Henderson LA | 1,594 | $49K | 12.9% | 1.1% | 17% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Cleveland Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Cleveland Township and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Mount Carmel Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Cleveland Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Township | – | C | C− | 29 min | $71,923 |
| Ralpho Township | 2% | A | C+ | 29 min | $120,386 |
| Mount Carmel Township | 3% | C | B− | 29 min | $71,339 |
| Coal Township | under 2% | C− | B+ | 27 min | $51,010 |
| Franklin Township | 3% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Locust Township | under 2% | B | D− | 26 min | $72,292 |
| Conyngham Township | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Franklin Township and Conyngham Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Cleveland 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 Cleveland Township: questions
What is the median household income in Cleveland Township?
$71,923 (±$10,968) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cleveland Township?
12.7%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cleveland Township?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cleveland Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mahoning Township (10%, 10 mi), Bloomsburg (6%, 9 mi), South Centre Township (4%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Cleveland Township walkable?
Cleveland Township is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cleveland Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cleveland Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cleveland 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.