Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0A job hub: DuBois has 2.5 jobs per working resident, and 6,787 people come in to work
At home: 7% of workers have no commute at all (Pennsylvania 16%). 7,834 jobs are based in DuBois, and 3,158 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn DuBois C+; getting around on foot earns it A.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in DuBois: the figures worth knowing
DuBois is where the jobs are
DuBois has 7,834 jobs, 2.5 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 12,000 people are in town, 64% more than the 7,300 who live here. Day and night ↓
DuBois and Sandy Township trade workers both ways
Sandy Township is the top workplace for DuBois residents (16%) and also where the most people who work in DuBois come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from DuBois are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 26 across Pennsylvania. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Pennsylvania worker. Time on the road ↓
DuBois draws workers from far and wide
The 7,834 jobs in DuBois are filled from a wide area. DuBois’ own residents hold 13% and the ten next-biggest home towns 32%; the other 55% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
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.
Where DuBois’ Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, DuBois is better than 40% of U.S. towns, #777 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Unemployment holds DuBois’ grade up (3.4%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($62,697, U.S. $80,734).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, DuBois could be anywhere from C− to B.
A workday in DuBois: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 2,111 residents head out to work and 1,047 work right here.
About 12,000 people are in DuBois on a workday afternoon, 64% 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 the people who work in DuBois live
Where DuBois clocks in
2% 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 DuBois, about 19 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of DuBois workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,601 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.
The kinds of work in DuBois
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in DuBois, 2014 → 2024: 7,932 → 7,834. 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 DuBois’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles DuBois commutes
About 23% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: DuBois
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, DuBois is more walkable than 93% of U.S. towns, #146 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Both inputs place DuBois 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 3,882 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). 10.6% of DuBois households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of DuBois’ commuters take a bus or train.
DuBois is 2,096th of 3,122 U.S. towns of 5,100 to 9,800 on jobs and income
| # | 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 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | West Vincent Township PA | 6,885 | $203K | 1.4% | 0.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 56 | Bethel Township PA | 9,774 | $177K | 1.8% | 2.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 66 | Upper Nazareth Township PA | 8,521 | $122K | 1.2% | 0.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,094 | Medina NY | 5,855 | $59K | 12.3% | 3.3% | 24% | C+ |
| 2,095 | Millersville PA | 9,280 | $68K | 23.1% | 5.0% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,096 | DuBois PA | 7,254 | $63K | 14.0% | 3.4% | 33% | C+ |
| 2,097 | Belle Fourche SD | 5,791 | $65K | 10.6% | 2.6% | 31% | C+ |
| 2,098 | Oceano CA | 7,128 | $72K | 17.2% | 4.1% | 6% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,122 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 DuBois, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Next door to DuBois
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | DuBois workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DuBois | – | C+ | A | 19 min | $62,697 |
| Oklahoma | under 2% | — | — | 13 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Oklahoma: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of DuBois’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 DuBois: questions
What is the median household income in DuBois?
$62,697 (±$5,509) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in DuBois?
14.0%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from DuBois?
19 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in DuBois work?
33% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Sandy Township (16%, 2 mi), Brookville (2%, 17 mi), Lawrence Township (2%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is DuBois walkable?
DuBois is more walkable than 93% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 10.6 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around DuBois without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from DuBois, from the people who make the trip.
More of DuBois
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.