Photo: Jared Kofsky/PlaceNJ.com · CC BY-SA 4.0A job hub: Dickson City has 2.3 jobs per working resident, and 5,853 people come in to work
Employers in Dickson City report 6,093 jobs, and 2,705 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Dickson City C; getting around on foot earns it B+. Working from home is the commute for 7% of workers, where Pennsylvania as a whole has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Dickson City, in a few figures
Dickson City is where the jobs are
Dickson City has 6,093 jobs, 2.3 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 9,400 people are in town, 57% more than the 6,000 who live here. Day and night ↓
Dickson City draws workers from far and wide
The 6,093 jobs in Dickson City are filled from a wide area. The ten biggest home towns of its workers supply 28%; the other 68% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Dickson City and Scranton trade workers both ways
Scranton is the top workplace for Dickson City residents (22%) and also where the most people who work in Dickson City come from (13% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Dickson City
61% of Dickson City residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 37% of the jobs based in Dickson City pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 91% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
48% of the jobs in Dickson City are in trade, transport and utilities, against 24% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
How Dickson City earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Dickson City is better than 31% of U.S. towns, #866 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Job access by car holds Dickson City’s grade up (ahead of 73% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (7.7%, U.S. 5.2%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Dickson City could be anywhere from C− to B.
Dickson City on a workday afternoon
On a workday 2,465 residents head out to work and 240 work right here.
About 9,400 people are in Dickson City on a workday afternoon, 57% more than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Where Dickson City’s workforce comes from
Where Dickson City clocks in
22% of workers
3% 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 Dickson City
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dickson City, 2014 → 2024: 6,632 → 6,093. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Dickson City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 25 minutes to work from Dickson City
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dickson City workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,514 commuters (the 7% 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.
Dickson City’s commute, mile by mile
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
The commute in Dickson City is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Dickson City is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns, #400 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.3% 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 2,705 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). 13.9% of Dickson City households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Dickson City’s commuters take a bus or train.
2,496th of 3,394: where Dickson City ranks among U.S. towns of 4,200 to 8,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
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| 25 | West Vincent Township PA | 6,885 | $203K | 1.4% | 0.8% | 5% | A+ |
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| 30 | Edgmont Township PA | 4,706 | $137K | 2.4% | 1.1% | 4% | A+ |
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| 63 | Pocopson Township PA | 4,480 | $230K | 1.3% | 2.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,494 | Creedmoor NC | 5,046 | $83K | 18.2% | 8.2% | 2% | C |
| 2,495 | Slaughterville OK | 4,332 | $73K | 13.7% | 6.3% | 2% | C |
| 2,496 | Dickson City PA | 5,976 | $60K | 13.1% | 7.7% | 9% | C |
| 2,497 | Yoakum TX | 5,900 | $47K | 17.7% | 0.0% | 26% | C |
| 2,498 | Tippecanoe Township IN | 6,630 | $72K | 9.4% | 9.1% | 9% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,394 | Medina TX | 4,226 | $22K | 53.8% | 10.1% | 3% | 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 Dickson City, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Dickson City and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Olyphant (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Dickson City workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dickson City | – | C | B+ | 25 min | $59,963 |
| Throop | under 2% | C+ | C | 16 min | $57,462 |
| Olyphant | 2% | B− | B+ | 19 min | $66,423 |
| Blakely | 2% | C+ | B+ | 18 min | $55,855 |
| Scott Township | under 2% | B+ | B | 21 min | $93,384 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Dickson City’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 2024, 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 Dickson City: questions
What is the median household income in Dickson City?
$59,963 (±$7,615) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dickson City?
13.1%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dickson City?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dickson City work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Scranton (22%, 5 mi), Dunmore (6%, 4 mi), Jessup (3%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Dickson City walkable?
Dickson City is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 9.4 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dickson City without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dickson City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dickson City
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.