Photo: David Brossard · CC BY-SA 2.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Croyle Township works elsewhere
Only 5% work in Croyle Township; the top destination outside it is Richland Township (12%, 7 miles). 489 jobs are based in Croyle Township; 1,016 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Croyle Township are B− 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
Work in Croyle Township, in a few figures
Why Croyle Township gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Croyle Township is better than 53% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Croyle Township’s grade up (2.7%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($59,514, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Croyle Township could be anywhere from C to A−.
The kinds of work in Croyle Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Croyle Township, 2013 → 2023: 370 → 489. 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 Croyle Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily commute in and out of Croyle Township
On a workday 966 residents head out to work, 50 work right here, and 439 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Croyle Township on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
The places Croyle Township commutes to
Where Croyle Township clocks in
12% of workers
10% of workers
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.
The daily trip from Croyle Township: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Croyle Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 981 commuters (the 10% 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 Croyle Township’s workers travel
About 21% 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.
Driving is how Croyle Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Croyle Township is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 4.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,087 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). 5.1% of Croyle Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Croyle Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Croyle Township next to U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,100: 2,135th of 5,328 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 27 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 63 | Churchill PA | 3,014 | $107K | 1.9% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,133 | Lindley NY | 1,756 | $87K | 6.8% | 5.8% | 2% | B− |
| 2,134 | McKean Township OH | 1,661 | $100K | 19.9% | 9.0% | 2% | B− |
| 2,135 | Croyle Township PA | 2,275 | $60K | 6.8% | 2.7% | 5% | B− |
| 2,136 | Three Rivers CA | 2,282 | $86K | 5.7% | 3.2% | 9% | B− |
| 2,137 | Kealakekua HI | 1,919 | $103K | 7.2% | 1.0% | 17% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,328 | 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 Croyle Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
11% of Croyle Township works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Adams Township (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Croyle Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Croyle Township | – | B− | C− | 23 min | $59,514 |
| Adams Township | 9% | B | D | 27 min | $69,639 |
| Ehrenfeld | under 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Sidman | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| St. Michael | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Summerhill | 2% | — | — | 20 min | — |
| South Fork | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Summerhill Township | under 2% | C | D | 24 min | $57,813 |
| East Taylor Township | under 2% | C | D | 24 min | $70,313 |
| Jackson Township | under 2% | B | C+ | 31 min | $81,414 |
| Beaverdale | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Ehrenfeld, Summerhill and South Fork: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Sidman, St. Michael and Beaverdale: Census-designated places inside larger towns, graded as part of them. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Croyle 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 Croyle Township: questions
What is the median household income in Croyle Township?
$59,514 (±$14,114) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Croyle Township?
6.8%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Croyle Township?
23 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Croyle Township work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Richland Township (12%, 7 mi), Johnstown (10%, 9 mi), Adams Township (9%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Croyle Township walkable?
Croyle Township is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Croyle Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Croyle Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Croyle 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.