Photo: jpmueller99 from Shenandoah Valley of VA, USA · CC BY 2.0Delaware Township at work: jobs, income and the commute
The trip to work takes 28 minutes on average, where Pennsylvania has 26 and the U.S. 26. Delaware Township grades C− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. About one in ten stay in Delaware Township for work; outside it, Walker Township is the main destination (11%, 5 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Delaware Township apart on work
The four measures behind Delaware Township’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Delaware Township is better than 21% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Delaware Township’s grade up ($80,833, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (20.3%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (2.1%) is left out: Delaware Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Delaware Township could be anywhere from D to B.
In Delaware Township, 91% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
928 jobs are based in Delaware Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Delaware Township, 2013 → 2023: 937 → 928. 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 Delaware Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Delaware Township by day and by night
On a workday 625 residents head out to work, 57 work right here, and 871 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Delaware Township on a workday afternoon, 15% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.36 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.
Out of Delaware Township to work: where people go
Where Delaware Township clocks in
11% of workers
7% of workers
6% 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.
About 28 minutes each way for Delaware Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Delaware Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 626 commuters (the 14% 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.
The distance from Delaware Township to work
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.
Most of Delaware Township commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Delaware Township is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 3.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 725 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). 4.8% of Delaware Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Delaware Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Delaware Township is 4,236th of 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,234 | Stockton Springs ME | 1,593 | $75K | 14.5% | 5.2% | 1% | C− |
| 4,235 | Maryland NY | 1,743 | $63K | 10.5% | 6.8% | 7% | C− |
| 4,236 | Delaware Township PA | 1,622 | $81K | 20.3% | 2.1% | 8% | C− |
| 4,237 | Fall Branch TN | 1,160 | $50K | 19.3% | 0.0% | 1% | C− |
| 4,238 | Belleville KS | 1,986 | $56K | 8.0% | 3.4% | 49% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Delaware Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Next door is work for 15% of Delaware Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Delaware Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delaware Township | – | C− | C− | 28 min | $80,833 |
| Tuscarora Township | under 2% | C+ | D− | 29 min | $84,323 |
| Greenwood Township | under 2% | B+ | C− | 34 min | $90,250 |
| Fayette Township | 4% | B | B− | 28 min | $75,250 |
| Walker Township | 11% | B− | B | 25 min | $72,813 |
| Greenwood Township | under 2% | — | — | 44 min | — |
| Monroe Township | under 2% | C | C | 33 min | $67,000 |
Same-state neighbors only. Greenwood Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Walker Township. Darker towns draw more of Delaware 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 Delaware Township: questions
What is the median household income in Delaware Township?
$80,833 (±$16,334) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Delaware Township?
20.3%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Delaware Township?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Delaware Township work?
8% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Walker Township (11%, 5 mi), Fermanagh Township (7%, 9 mi), Harrisburg (6%, 28 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Delaware Township walkable?
Delaware Township is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 3.5 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Delaware Township without a car?
0% 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 Delaware Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Delaware 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.