Beaver, Thomas, Free Library and Danville YMCA · Photo: Smallbones · CC0Danville’s household incomes are lower than in 75% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 14.0% of residents, where Pennsylvania as a whole has 11.7%. Danville grades C+ for jobs and income and A+ for walkability. About one in ten work in Danville itself; outside it, Mahoning Township draws the most (31%, 1 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Danville: the figures worth knowing
Commutes from Danville are quick
The average trip to work takes 12 minutes, against 26 across Pennsylvania. That’s about 107 hours a year less on the road than the typical Pennsylvania worker. Time on the road ↓
31% of Danville works in Mahoning Township
621 working residents, 31%, have their main job in Mahoning Township, 0.6 miles away. That’s 3 times as many as work in Danville itself. The commute map ↓
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.
Why Danville gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Danville is better than 40% of U.S. towns, #774 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Job access by car holds Danville’s grade up (ahead of 59% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($59,219, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Danville could be anywhere from C− to B+.
About 12 minutes to work from Danville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 3.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Danville workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,641 commuters (the 13% 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.
Where Danville goes to work
Where Danville clocks in
31% 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.
A workday in Danville: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 1,820 residents head out to work, 198 work right here, and 2,302 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,600 people are in Danville on a workday afternoon, 12% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.24 per resident).
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 2,500 jobs based in Danville
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Danville, 2013 → 2023: 2,145 → 2,500. 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 Danville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Danville’s commute, mile by mile
About 20% 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.
Danville is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Danville is more walkable than 96% of U.S. towns, #90 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Both inputs place Danville near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,897 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). 15.3% of Danville households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Danville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Danville places 2,471st of 4,023 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 2,900 to 5,500
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 23 | Wallace Township PA | 3,759 | $183K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Edgmont Township PA | 4,706 | $137K | 2.4% | 1.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Pocopson Township PA | 4,480 | $230K | 1.3% | 2.2% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,469 | Schuyler NY | 3,263 | $65K | 7.8% | 6.2% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,470 | Clay Center KS | 4,061 | $63K | 13.1% | 1.1% | 47% | C+ |
| 2,471 | Danville PA | 4,101 | $59K | 14.0% | 3.7% | 10% | C+ |
| 2,472 | Oregon Township IN | 3,282 | $71K | 10.4% | 4.7% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,473 | Hastings Township MI | 3,091 | $79K | 10.1% | 5.6% | 5% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,023 | 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 Danville, 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 Danville: questions
What is the median household income in Danville?
$59,219 (±$7,855) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Danville?
14.0%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Danville?
12 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Danville work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mahoning Township (31%, 1 mi), Bloomsburg (4%, 9 mi), Valley Township (2%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Danville walkable?
Danville is more walkable than 96% of U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 10.7 out of 20, and 21% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Danville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 15% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Danville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Danville
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.