Photo: {{{1}}} · CC BY 2.0East St. Clair Township’s household incomes are lower than in 95% of U.S. towns
17.6% of residents live below the poverty line, where Pennsylvania as a whole has 11.7%. East St. Clair Township grades C− for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. About one in ten work in East St. Clair Township itself; outside it, Bedford Township draws the most (17%, 6 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set East St. Clair Township apart
Income, poverty and work: East St. Clair Township’s grade explained
Unemployment holds East St. Clair Township’s grade up (4.1%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($41,993, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, East St. Clair Township could be anywhere from D− to B−.
In and out of East St. Clair Township on a workday
On a workday 1,115 residents head out to work, 109 work right here, and 499 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,300 people are in East St. Clair Township on a workday afternoon, 21% fewer than live here.
0.50 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 2024, primary jobs.
The places East St. Clair Township commutes to
Where East St. Clair Township clocks in
17% of workers
5% 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.
East St. Clair Township works in goods: 33% of its jobs
608 jobs are based in East St. Clair Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in East St. Clair Township, 2014 → 2024: 508 → 608. 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 East St. Clair Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 24 minutes each way for East St. Clair Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of East St. Clair Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,272 commuters (the 10% 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.
How far East St. Clair Township goes to work
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.
For most of East St. Clair Township, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, East St. Clair Township is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns, #655 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 5.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,414 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). 3.7% of East St. Clair Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 4% of East St. Clair Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
East St. Clair Township next to U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,900: 3,972nd of 4,882 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
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| 21 | Wallace Township PA | 3,759 | $183K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 71 | Churchill PA | 3,014 | $107K | 1.9% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
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| 3,970 | Silver Creek NY | 2,575 | $64K | 21.5% | 6.7% | 13% | C− |
| 3,971 | Chincoteague VA | 3,309 | $63K | 10.2% | 6.5% | 27% | C− |
| 3,972 | East St. Clair Township PA | 2,922 | $42K | 17.6% | 4.1% | 9% | C− |
| 3,973 | Nambe NM | 2,035 | $59K | 15.2% | 9.3% | 7% | C− |
| 3,974 | Eutaw AL | 2,640 | $27K | 40.1% | 2.2% | 24% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,882 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 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 East St. Clair Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Bordering towns draw 25% of East St. Clair Township’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | East St. Clair Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East St. Clair Township | – | C− | C+ | 24 min | $41,993 |
| West St. Clair Township | 4% | C− | C− | 26 min | $53,370 |
| Bedford Township | 17% | C+ | C | 20 min | $61,136 |
| King Township | 2% | B− | D | 25 min | $73,942 |
| South Woodbury Township | under 2% | B− | B | 28 min | $74,722 |
| Napier Township | 2% | C+ | C | 29 min | $61,656 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Bedford Township. Darker towns draw more of East St. Clair 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 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 East St. Clair Township: questions
What is the median household income in East St. Clair Township?
$41,993 (±$23,441) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in East St. Clair Township?
17.6%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from East St. Clair Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in East St. Clair Township work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bedford Township (17%, 6 mi), Bedford (5%, 8 mi), West St. Clair Township (4%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is East St. Clair Township walkable?
East St. Clair Township is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around East St. Clair Township without a car?
4% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from East St. Clair Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of East St. Clair Township
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.