Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Dallastown has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Transit is limited for a town this walkable: about 1.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident at the evening peak, against 37.7 in Philadelphia. Employers in Dallastown report 544 jobs; 2,111 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Dallastown is better than 48% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 94% of U.S. towns (A).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Dallastown, in brief
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Dallastown
Job access by car holds Dallastown’s grade up (ahead of 70% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (6.0%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Dallastown could be anywhere from C− to A.
Dallastown on a workday afternoon
On a workday 2,074 residents head out to work, 37 work right here, and 507 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,600 people are in Dallastown 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.
10% of working residents work in York Township
Where Dallastown clocks in
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 kinds of work in Dallastown
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dallastown, 2013 → 2023: 638 → 544. 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 Dallastown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 23 minutes each way, quicker than most of Pennsylvania
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dallastown workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,855 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 it is to work from Dallastown
About 15% 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.
In Dallastown, walking beats the bus
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 5.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.6% across Pennsylvania.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,069 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 46% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 58% 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). 0.0% of Dallastown households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Dallastown’s commuters take a bus or train.
Dallastown is 2,267th of 4,195 U.S. towns of 2,900 to 5,700 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | Wallace Township PA | 3,759 | $183K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Edgmont Township PA | 4,706 | $137K | 2.4% | 1.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 71 | Pocopson Township PA | 4,480 | $230K | 1.3% | 2.2% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,265 | Silver Hill MD | 5,193 | $61K | 15.8% | 4.6% | <1% | B− |
| 2,266 | Whitehall MI | 3,205 | $61K | 16.3% | 0.2% | 18% | B− |
| 2,267 | Dallastown PA | 4,198 | $64K | 7.3% | 6.0% | 2% | B− |
| 2,268 | Sterling CT | 3,736 | $103K | 8.3% | 6.9% | 6% | B− |
| 2,269 | French Lick Township IN | 4,746 | $61K | 7.8% | 1.9% | 35% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,195 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Dallastown, 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 Dallastown: questions
What is the median household income in Dallastown?
$63,517 (±$3,395) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dallastown?
7.3%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dallastown?
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 Dallastown work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are York Township (10%, 2 mi), York (9%, 7 mi), Springettsbury Township (8%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Dallastown walkable?
Dallastown is more walkable than 94% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 14.7 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dallastown without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 46% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dallastown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dallastown
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.