Photo: Jakec · CC BY-SA 4.0Eaton Township has 1.3 jobs for every working resident: 728 people commute in to work
Jobs & income C+: better than 42% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability D: more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns.
Household incomes here are lower than in 59% of U.S. towns. Working residents average 25 minutes each way (Pennsylvania 26, U.S. 26). Only 4% work in Eaton Township; the top destination outside it is Tunkhannock Township (13%, 5 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Eaton Township
What’s behind Eaton Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Eaton Township is better than 42% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Eaton Township’s grade up (7.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 28% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.8%) is left out: Eaton 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, Eaton Township could be anywhere from C− to B.
What the 750 jobs in Eaton Township are
750 jobs are based in Eaton Township. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Eaton Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Eaton Township, 2013 → 2023: 188 → 750. 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.
Eaton Township fills up on a workday
On a workday 575 residents head out to work, 22 work right here, and 728 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Eaton Township on a workday afternoon, 11% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.26 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.
13% of working residents work in Tunkhannock Township
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Eaton Township clocks in
13% of workers
7% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
About 25 minutes each way, about the PA average
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Eaton Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 567 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.
Half of Eaton Township commutes less than 16 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 21% 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.
Most trips from Eaton Township start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Eaton Township is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.0% 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 632 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). 5.2% of Eaton Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Eaton Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Eaton Township is 2,501st of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Eaton Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
| # | 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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| 12 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
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| 34 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
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| 2,499 | Rome Township MI | 1,780 | $84K | 11.4% | 9.9% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,500 | Monroe Township OH | 1,892 | $83K | 12.3% | 3.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,501 | Eaton Township PA | 1,426 | $70K | 7.4% | 1.8% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,502 | Craftsbury VT | 1,291 | $84K | 6.6% | 0.0% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,503 | Montello WI | 1,174 | $88K | 10.0% | 4.8% | <1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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.
20% of Eaton Township works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Tunkhannock Township (13%). Darker towns draw more of Eaton Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Eaton Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eaton Township | – | C+ | D | 25 min | $69,531 |
| Monroe Township | under 2% | C− | C+ | 30 min | $59,286 |
| Tunkhannock Township | 13% | B− | C+ | 27 min | $83,459 |
| Washington Township | under 2% | B− | D | 21 min | $99,861 |
| Falls Township | under 2% | C+ | C | 26 min | $74,191 |
| Northmoreland Township | under 2% | C+ | C+ | 27 min | $82,344 |
| Tunkhannock | 7% | D | A | 19 min | $57,546 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
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 Eaton Township: questions
What is the median household income in Eaton Township?
$69,531 (±$11,019) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Eaton Township?
7.4%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Eaton Township?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Eaton Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tunkhannock Township (13%, 5 mi), Tunkhannock (7%, 4 mi), Mehoopany Township (6%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Eaton Township walkable?
Eaton Township is more walkable than 12% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Eaton 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 Eaton Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Eaton 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.