Photo: Dough4872 · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Coatesville works elsewhere
Coatesville has 986 jobs, against 5,322 working residents. The two grades for Coatesville are C+ for jobs and income and A for walkability. Measured by household income, Coatesville is behind 75% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Coatesville, in a few figures
Jobs & income in Coatesville: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Coatesville is better than 36% of U.S. towns, #814 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Job access by car holds Coatesville’s grade up (ahead of 77% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (18.1%, U.S. 12.5%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Coatesville could be anywhere from C− to B.
6% of working residents work in Caln Township
Where Coatesville clocks in
6% 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.
How many people are in Coatesville by day
On a workday 5,168 residents head out to work, 154 work right here, and 832 people come in from elsewhere.
About 8,900 people are in Coatesville on a workday afternoon, 33% 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 kinds of work in Coatesville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Coatesville, 2014 → 2024: 768 → 986. 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 Coatesville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 25 minutes in Coatesville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Coatesville workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 5,745 commuters (the 9% 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.
Coatesville’s commute, mile by mile
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.
Coatesville is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Coatesville is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns, #255 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Both inputs place Coatesville near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 6,296 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 11.2% of Coatesville households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of Coatesville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Coatesville places 1,840th of 2,526 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 9,000 to 18,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 10% | A+ |
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| 20 | Lower Moreland Township PA | 14,116 | $154K | 2.6% | 2.0% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Bethel Township PA | 9,774 | $177K | 1.8% | 2.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 41 | Skippack Township PA | 14,502 | $148K | 2.5% | 2.4% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,838 | Sikeston MO | 15,983 | $59K | 14.2% | 3.5% | 43% | C+ |
| 1,839 | Wapakoneta OH | 9,711 | $66K | 11.8% | 5.3% | 21% | C+ |
| 1,840 | Coatesville PA | 13,283 | $59K | 18.1% | 4.8% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,841 | Greenville Township OH | 17,035 | $52K | 12.0% | 3.6% | 38% | C+ |
| 1,842 | Madison Heights VA | 10,266 | $60K | 10.5% | 5.2% | 7% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,526 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 28% | 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 Coatesville, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
How Coatesville compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Caln Township (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Coatesville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coatesville | – | C+ | A | 25 min | $59,256 |
| Valley Township | 2% | B | B− | 36 min | $88,895 |
| Hayti | under 3% | — | — | 36 min | — |
| Caln Township | 6% | A | B+ | 26 min | $100,164 |
| South Coatesville | under 3% | C | D | 22 min | $76,005 |
Same-state neighbors only. Hayti: 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 Coatesville’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 Coatesville: questions
What is the median household income in Coatesville?
$59,256 (±$2,296) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Coatesville?
18.1%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Coatesville?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Coatesville work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Caln Township (6%, 3 mi), Philadelphia (6%, 36 mi), West Whiteland Township (4%, 11 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Coatesville walkable?
Coatesville is more walkable than 86% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 9.1 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Coatesville without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Coatesville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Coatesville
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.