Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Cussewago Township works elsewhere
Home is the office for 8% of workers, next to 16% for Pennsylvania as a whole. 97 jobs are based in Cussewago Township for 631 working residents. Jobs and income earn Cussewago Township C+; getting around on foot earns it C.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Cussewago Township: the gist
Cussewago Township is a place people come home to
There are 97 jobs based in Cussewago Township, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Cussewago Township has about 910 people in it, 37% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Cussewago Township’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Cussewago Township is Erie, 23 miles away as the crow flies. 12% of working residents (77) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
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 631 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Cussewago Township
On income, poverty and job access, Cussewago Township is better than 44% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Cussewago Township’s grade up (8.6%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 30% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (4.7%) is left out: Cussewago Township’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, Cussewago Township could be anywhere from C to B.
Cussewago Township on a workday afternoon
On a workday 616 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 82 people come in from elsewhere.
About 910 people are in Cussewago Township on a workday afternoon, 37% 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.
Where in the region Cussewago Township works
About 18% 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.
12% of working residents work in Erie
Where Cussewago Township clocks in
12% 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.
In Cussewago Township, 51% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Cussewago Township, 2013 → 2023: 87 → 97. 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 Cussewago Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Cussewago Township: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Cussewago Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 672 commuters (the 8% 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.
In Cussewago Township, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Cussewago Township is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 730 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). 1.8% of Cussewago Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Cussewago Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Cussewago Township next to U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900: 2,410th of 5,877 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,408 | Nescopeck PA | 1,511 | $63K | 9.1% | 4.3% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,409 | Banks Township MI | 1,666 | $71K | 4.4% | 4.6% | 11% | C+ |
| 2,410 | Cussewago Township PA | 1,440 | $75K | 8.6% | 4.7% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,411 | Graysville AL | 1,855 | $70K | 10.6% | 7.1% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,412 | Gilman IL | 1,681 | $71K | 6.1% | 6.8% | 18% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Cussewago Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Next door to Cussewago Township
The biggest share goes to Hayfield Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Cussewago Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cussewago Township | – | C+ | C | 28 min | $75,139 |
| Venango Township | under 4% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Spring Township | under 4% | C | B+ | 32 min | $61,950 |
| Hayfield Township | 4% | B+ | D | 19 min | $72,238 |
| Elk Creek Township | under 4% | B+ | D | 28 min | $86,250 |
Same-state neighbors only. Venango Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Cussewago 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 Cussewago Township: questions
What is the median household income in Cussewago Township?
$75,139 (±$6,037) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Cussewago Township?
8.6%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Cussewago Township?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Cussewago Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Erie (12%, 23 mi), Meadville (8%, 11 mi), Millcreek Township (5%, 20 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Cussewago Township walkable?
Cussewago Township is more walkable than 34% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Cussewago Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Cussewago Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Cussewago 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.