Household incomes in Dimock Township are higher than in 66% of U.S. towns
Dimock Township grades B− for jobs and income and C− for walkability. Poverty touches 8.2% of residents, next to 11.7% for Pennsylvania as a whole. Only 3% work in Dimock Township; the top destination outside it is Bridgewater Township (7%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Dimock Township and work: the main findings
Inside Dimock Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Dimock Township is better than 46% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Dimock Township’s grade up ($87,946, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 16% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (7.9%) is left out: Dimock Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Dimock Township could be anywhere from C to B.
73% of the jobs in Dimock Township pay over $3,333 a month
312 jobs are based in Dimock Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Dimock Township, 2013 → 2023: 105 → 312. 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 Dimock Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How a workday changes Dimock Township
On a workday 487 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 298 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Dimock Township on a workday afternoon, 15% fewer than live here.
0.62 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 towns that employ Dimock Township’s residents
Where Dimock Township clocks in
7% of workers
5% 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.
From Dimock Township, about 30 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Dimock Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 490 commuters (the 9% 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 commute from Dimock Township, by distance
About 27% 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 Dimock Township, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Dimock Township is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns. 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 4.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 541 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). 5.9% of Dimock Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Dimock Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Dimock Township next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700: 1,856th of 4,866 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 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 9 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,854 | Ancram NY | 1,413 | $100K | 9.3% | 3.5% | 11% | B− |
| 1,855 | Jackson Township OH | 1,147 | $81K | 13.3% | 10.0% | 1% | B− |
| 1,856 | Dimock Township PA | 1,224 | $88K | 8.2% | 7.9% | 3% | B− |
| 1,857 | Remington IN | 1,392 | $76K | 8.9% | 1.6% | 9% | B− |
| 1,858 | Loran Township IL | 1,313 | $73K | 5.1% | 0.8% | 8% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Dimock Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
The towns next door employ 10% of Dimock Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Dimock Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dimock Township | – | B− | C− | 30 min | $87,946 |
| Bridgewater Township | 7% | B− | C+ | 24 min | $65,625 |
| Springville Township | 3% | B− | B− | 24 min | $76,750 |
| Brooklyn Township | under 3% | — | — | 29 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Brooklyn Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Bridgewater Township. Darker towns draw more of Dimock 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 Dimock Township: questions
What is the median household income in Dimock Township?
$87,946 (±$7,829) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Dimock Township?
8.2%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Dimock Township?
30 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Dimock Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bridgewater Township (7%, 7 mi), Scranton (5%, 26 mi), Mehoopany Township (5%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Dimock Township walkable?
Dimock Township is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Dimock Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Dimock Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Dimock 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.