Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Conyngham commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 4% of workers, where Pennsylvania as a whole has 16%. 338 jobs are based in Conyngham; 689 of its residents have a job. Conyngham grades B 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
Conyngham at work: what stands out
The better-paid jobs are outside Conyngham
63% of Conyngham residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 36% of the jobs based in Conyngham pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 98% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Conyngham are quick
The average trip to work takes 16 minutes, against 26 across Pennsylvania. That’s about 77 hours a year less on the road than the typical Pennsylvania worker. Time on the road ↓
Few Conyngham 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 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 689 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Conyngham
On income, poverty and job access, Conyngham is better than 62% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Conyngham’s grade up (5.8%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($69,737, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (1.9%) is left out: Conyngham’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, Conyngham could be anywhere from C to A.
The kinds of work in Conyngham
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Conyngham, 2013 → 2023: 241 → 338. 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 Conyngham’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Conyngham: about 16 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Conyngham workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 786 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.
The daily flow of workers through Conyngham
On a workday 674 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 323 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Conyngham on a workday afternoon, 19% 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.
15% of working residents work in Hazle Township
Where Conyngham clocks in
7% 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 commute from Conyngham, by distance
About 17% 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.
Conyngham is easy on foot, hard by bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Conyngham is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 7.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 817 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). 3.9% of Conyngham households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Conyngham’s commuters take a bus or train.
Conyngham is 1,543rd of 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500 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 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 36 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,541 | Lake of the Woods IL | 2,091 | $62K | 4.7% | 6.2% | <1% | B |
| 1,542 | Mars Hill NC | 2,280 | $81K | 3.3% | 4.5% | 5% | B |
| 1,543 | Conyngham PA | 1,837 | $70K | 5.8% | 1.9% | 2% | B |
| 1,544 | Greene Township IL | 1,401 | $78K | 6.0% | 7.6% | 4% | B |
| 1,545 | Elkhart Township IN | 2,040 | $79K | 5.7% | 6.0% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Conyngham, 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 Conyngham: questions
What is the median household income in Conyngham?
$69,737 (±$27,220) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Conyngham?
5.8%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Conyngham?
16 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Conyngham work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hazle Township (15%, 3 mi), West Hazleton (8%, 2 mi), Hazleton (7%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Conyngham walkable?
Conyngham is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.9 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Conyngham 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 Conyngham, from the people who make the trip.
More of Conyngham
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.