Photo: Nicholas · CC BY 2.0Clifford Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
255 jobs are based in Clifford Township for 906 working residents. For jobs and income Clifford Township is better than 50% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (D). Only 4% work in Clifford Township itself; outside it, Scranton draws the most (9%, 19 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Clifford Township in brief
What’s behind Clifford Township’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Clifford Township’s grade up (7.7%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 24% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (8.0%) is left out: Clifford 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, Clifford Township could be anywhere from C to B+.
Clifford Township quiets down on a workday
On a workday 871 residents head out to work, 35 work right here, and 220 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Clifford Township on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
Where people from Clifford Township work
Where Clifford Township clocks in
9% 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: 53% of the jobs in Clifford Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Clifford Township, 2013 → 2023: 202 → 255. 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 Clifford Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Clifford Township, about 27 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Clifford Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 779 commuters (the 14% 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 Clifford Township works
About 26% 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.
In Clifford Township, most people drive to work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 909 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 Clifford Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Clifford Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Clifford Township ranks: 2,152nd of 5,148 U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,800
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 26 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 87 | Lowhill Township PA | 2,331 | $144K | 2.7% | 1.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,150 | Brant NY | 1,925 | $90K | 16.4% | 3.8% | 8% | B− |
| 2,151 | Plymouth Township OH | 1,865 | $70K | 13.3% | 2.0% | <1% | B− |
| 2,152 | Clifford Township PA | 2,092 | $85K | 7.7% | 8.0% | 4% | B− |
| 2,153 | Princeton WI | 1,552 | $84K | 7.1% | 1.9% | 3% | B− |
| 2,154 | Port Dickinson NY | 1,654 | $69K | 11.7% | 4.2% | 6% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,148 | 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 Clifford Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
The towns around Clifford Township
The biggest share goes to Lenox Township (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Clifford Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clifford Township | – | B− | D | 27 min | $84,559 |
| Greenfield Township | under 2% | A− | C+ | 25 min | $106,607 |
| Lenox Township | 5% | B− | C+ | 26 min | $75,833 |
| Forest City | under 2% | C− | A | 23 min | $57,404 |
| Fell Township | under 2% | C+ | C | 25 min | $60,875 |
| Union Dale | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Herrick Township | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Gibson Township | under 2% | B− | C | 30 min | $86,600 |
| Clinton Township | under 2% | C | C− | 26 min | $67,708 |
Same-state neighbors only. Union Dale and Herrick Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Clifford 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 Clifford Township: questions
What is the median household income in Clifford Township?
$84,559 (±$17,461) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Clifford Township?
7.7%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Clifford Township?
27 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Clifford Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Scranton (9%, 19 mi), Lenox Township (5%, 8 mi), Carbondale (4%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Clifford Township walkable?
Clifford Township is more walkable than 8% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Clifford 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 Clifford Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Clifford 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.