Photo: Doug Kerr (Dougtone) · CC BY-SA 2.0Damascus Township has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Working from home is the commute for 8% of workers, where Pennsylvania as a whole has 16%. 265 jobs are based in Damascus Township, against 1,645 working residents. Damascus Township grades 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
What stands out about work in Damascus Township
Damascus Township workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 39 minutes each way, against 26 across Pennsylvania. Over a year that’s about 299 hours of commuting, 100 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Damascus Township is a place people come home to
There are 265 jobs based in Damascus Township, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Damascus Township has about 2,300 people in it, 37% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
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.
How Damascus Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Damascus Township is better than 39% of U.S. towns, #789 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Unemployment holds Damascus Township’s grade up (3.6%, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 4% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Damascus Township could be anywhere from D to B+.
Damascus Township’s commute takes about 39 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Damascus Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,366 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.
Damascus Township quiets down on a workday
On a workday 1,539 residents head out to work, 106 work right here, and 159 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,300 people are in Damascus 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.
12% of working residents work in Honesdale
Where Damascus Township clocks in
12% of workers
4% 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.
Damascus Township makes things: 46% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Damascus Township, 2013 → 2023: 269 → 265. 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 Damascus Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Half of Damascus Township commutes less than 22 miles
About 29% 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.
Damascus Township is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Damascus Township is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns, #900 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 4.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,481 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% 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). 4.6% of Damascus Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Damascus Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 2,600 to 5,000, Damascus Township ranks 2,707th of 4,318 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
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| 22 | Wallace Township PA | 3,759 | $183K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 3% | A+ |
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| 27 | Edgmont Township PA | 4,706 | $137K | 2.4% | 1.1% | 3% | A+ |
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| 65 | Pocopson Township PA | 4,480 | $230K | 1.3% | 2.2% | 3% | A+ |
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| 2,705 | Tomahawk WI | 3,387 | $60K | 12.5% | 1.5% | 26% | C+ |
| 2,706 | Chesaning Township MI | 4,654 | $62K | 11.3% | 3.5% | 25% | C+ |
| 2,707 | Damascus Township PA | 3,699 | $75K | 8.9% | 3.6% | 6% | C+ |
| 2,708 | Lake Montezuma AZ | 4,929 | $64K | 9.7% | 2.4% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,709 | Yountville CA | 3,198 | $80K | 14.7% | 5.6% | 10% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,318 | 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 Damascus Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
The towns around Damascus Township
The biggest share goes to Delaware (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Damascus Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Damascus Township | – | C+ | C− | 39 min | $75,357 |
| Oregon Township | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Lebanon Township | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Berlin Township | 2% | C− | B− | 25 min | $68,494 |
| Manchester Township | under 2% | — | — | 29 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Oregon Township, Lebanon Township and Manchester Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Damascus 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 Damascus Township: questions
What is the median household income in Damascus Township?
$75,357 (±$19,431) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Damascus Township?
8.9%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Damascus Township?
39 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Damascus Township work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Honesdale (12%, 11 mi), Delaware (6%, 8 mi), Texas Township (4%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Damascus Township walkable?
Damascus Township is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.4 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Damascus Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Damascus Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Damascus 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.