Photo: Nyttend · Public domainHousehold incomes in Clymer trail those of 93% of U.S. towns
Working from home is the commute for 1% of workers, next to 16% for Pennsylvania as a whole. Below the poverty line: 18.3% of residents, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania. Clymer grades D for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Clymer
Few Clymer workers work from home
Only 1% of workers work from home, against 16% across Pennsylvania. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Clymer than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Clymer fell from 378 in 2013 to 267 in 2023, −29%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Clymer are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 26 across Pennsylvania. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Pennsylvania worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 564 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Clymer
On income, poverty and job access, Clymer is better than 9% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Clymer’s grade up (ahead of 31% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($44,044, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (12.1%) is left out: Clymer’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, Clymer could be anywhere from D to C−.
A commute of about 21 minutes in Clymer
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Clymer workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 427 commuters (the 1% 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.
What Clymer’s employers do
267 jobs are based in Clymer.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Clymer, 2013 → 2023: 378 → 267. 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 Clymer’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Clymer by day and by night
On a workday 552 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 255 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Clymer on a workday afternoon, 23% fewer than live here.
0.47 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
22% of working residents work in White Township
Where Clymer clocks in
10% of workers
8% 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.
How many miles Clymer commutes
About 24% 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 Clymer, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Clymer is more walkable than 83% of U.S. towns. 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 433 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). 11.9% of Clymer households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Clymer’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Clymer is 4,520th among 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,518 | Summerhill Township PA | 1,203 | $59K | 18.0% | 3.5% | 5% | D |
| 4,519 | Clayton NY | 1,656 | $61K | 19.5% | 2.9% | 25% | D |
| 4,520 | Clymer PA | 1,304 | $44K | 18.3% | 12.1% | 2% | D |
| 4,521 | Elkland PA | 1,772 | $55K | 15.7% | 6.5% | 14% | D |
| 4,522 | Oliver Township MI | 1,372 | $56K | 15.6% | 5.7% | 5% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Clymer, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
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 Clymer: questions
What is the median household income in Clymer?
$44,044 (±$5,526) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Clymer?
18.3%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Clymer?
21 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 1% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Clymer work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are White Township (22%, 6 mi), Indiana (10%, 8 mi), Cherryhill Township (8%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Clymer walkable?
Clymer is more walkable than 83% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 12.7 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Clymer 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 Clymer, from the people who make the trip.
More of Clymer
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.