Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Edwardsville have lower incomes than those in 93% of U.S. towns
At home: 6% of workers have no commute at all (Pennsylvania 16%). The poverty rate is 26.1%, where Pennsylvania as a whole has 11.7%. Jobs and income earn Edwardsville D; getting around on foot earns it C+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Edwardsville, in a few figures
Commutes from Edwardsville 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 ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
45% of the jobs in Edwardsville are in trade, transport and utilities, against 28% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Edwardsville than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Edwardsville fell from 1,365 in 2014 to 1,016 in 2024, −26%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. 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.
What’s behind Edwardsville’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Edwardsville is better than 12% of U.S. towns, #1,006 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Job access by car holds Edwardsville’s grade up (ahead of 71% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (12.5%, U.S. 5.2%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Edwardsville could be anywhere from D to C+.
About 19 minutes to work from Edwardsville
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Edwardsville workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,984 commuters (the 6% 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.
Jobs in Edwardsville: what the 1,016 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Edwardsville, 2014 → 2024: 1,365 → 1,016. 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 Edwardsville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Edwardsville by day and by night
On a workday 1,794 residents head out to work, 28 work right here, and 988 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,100 people are in Edwardsville on a workday afternoon, 16% fewer than live here.
0.56 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.
12% of working residents work in Wilkes-Barre
Where Edwardsville clocks in
12% of workers
7% 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 commute from Edwardsville, by distance
About 22% 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.
In Edwardsville, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Edwardsville is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns, #679 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 2,105 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). 12.6% of Edwardsville households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Edwardsville’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Edwardsville compares with U.S. towns of 3,400 to 6,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Wallace Township PA | 3,759 | $183K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Edgmont Township PA | 4,706 | $137K | 2.4% | 1.1% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 74 | Pocopson Township PA | 4,480 | $230K | 1.3% | 2.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,519 | Hanover IN | 3,866 | $54K | 13.1% | 9.0% | 14% | D |
| 3,520 | Greenville KY | 4,350 | $46K | 21.3% | 5.3% | 15% | D |
| 3,521 | Edwardsville PA | 4,927 | $45K | 26.1% | 12.5% | 2% | D |
| 3,522 | Madisonville TN | 5,428 | $40K | 18.1% | 6.8% | 13% | D |
| 3,523 | Pauls Valley OK | 6,157 | $50K | 24.4% | 5.2% | 34% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,907 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Edwardsville, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Edwardsville and its neighbors: 19% work next door
The biggest share goes to Wilkes-Barre (12%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Edwardsville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edwardsville | – | D | C+ | 19 min | $44,866 |
| Larksville | under 2% | C | C+ | 21 min | $56,942 |
| Kingston | 7% | C | A | 22 min | $55,347 |
| Wilkes-Barre | 12% | C− | A | 21 min | $48,515 |
| Pringle | under 2% | — | — | 18 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Pringle: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Edwardsville’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 Edwardsville: questions
What is the median household income in Edwardsville?
$44,866 (±$24,518) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Edwardsville?
26.1%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Edwardsville?
19 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Edwardsville work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wilkes-Barre (12%, 2 mi), Hanover Township (9%, 4 mi), Kingston (7%, 1 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Edwardsville walkable?
Edwardsville is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 9.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Edwardsville without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Edwardsville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Edwardsville
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.