Photo: Plazak · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Cornplanter Township commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers, where Pennsylvania as a whole has 16%. 372 jobs are based in Cornplanter Township, against 841 working residents. The two grades for Cornplanter Township are C for jobs and income and C+ for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Cornplanter Township in brief
What’s behind Cornplanter Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Cornplanter Township is better than 32% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Cornplanter Township’s grade up (2.9%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Cornplanter Township could be anywhere from D to B−.
Cornplanter Township by day and by night
On a workday 816 residents head out to work, 25 work right here, and 347 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Cornplanter Township on a workday afternoon, 21% 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 Oil City
Where Cornplanter Township clocks in
15% 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.
Jobs in Cornplanter Township: what the 372 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cornplanter Township, 2013 → 2023: 363 → 372. 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 Cornplanter Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Cornplanter Township: about 22 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cornplanter Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 995 commuters (the 5% 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.
How far Cornplanter Township’s workers travel
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.
Few in Cornplanter Township walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cornplanter Township is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 4.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,050 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). 4.5% of Cornplanter Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Cornplanter Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Cornplanter Township ranks: 3,156th of 5,102 U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,000
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 25 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 67 | South Coventry Township PA | 2,822 | $158K | 0.9% | 2.2% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,154 | Burlington Township IN | 1,690 | $87K | 14.7% | 1.5% | 3% | C |
| 3,155 | Adams Township MI | 2,330 | $58K | 7.4% | 4.7% | 3% | C |
| 3,156 | Cornplanter Township PA | 2,258 | $69K | 16.6% | 2.9% | 3% | C |
| 3,157 | Forest Heights TX | 1,795 | $81K | 24.0% | 3.2% | 3% | C |
| 3,158 | South Roxana IL | 1,849 | $60K | 22.3% | 5.7% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,102 | 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 Cornplanter Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Bordering towns draw 38% of Cornplanter Township’s workers
The biggest share goes to Oil City (15%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Cornplanter Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornplanter Township | – | C | C+ | 22 min | $68,929 |
| President Township | under 2% | — | — | 33 min | — |
| Oil City | 15% | C− | A− | 18 min | $51,316 |
| Cherrytree Township | under 2% | D | C+ | 25 min | $56,971 |
| Cranberry Township | 15% | C− | C− | 26 min | $60,977 |
| Oakland Township | under 2% | C+ | D | 23 min | $77,500 |
| Sugarcreek | 8% | C− | B− | 19 min | $63,987 |
| Oil Creek Township | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Allegheny Township | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. President Township, Oil Creek Township and Allegheny Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Cornplanter 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 Cornplanter Township: questions
What is the median household income in Cornplanter Township?
$68,929 (±$10,675) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cornplanter Township?
16.6%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cornplanter Township?
22 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cornplanter Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oil City (15%, 6 mi), Cranberry Township (15%, 10 mi), Sugarcreek (8%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cornplanter Township walkable?
Cornplanter Township is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cornplanter Township without a car?
1% 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 Cornplanter Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cornplanter 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.