Photo: User:Ruhrfisch · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Eldred Township commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Measured by household income, Eldred Township is ahead of 76% of U.S. towns. Eldred Township has 102 jobs for 910 working residents. For jobs and income Eldred Township is better than 75% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (C+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Eldred Township in brief
Eldred Township’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
The poverty rate holds Eldred Township’s grade up (4.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 41% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.3%) is left out: Eldred 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, Eldred Township could be anywhere from B− to A.
Who works in Eldred Township, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 897 residents head out to work, 13 work right here, and 89 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Eldred Township on a workday afternoon, 41% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
20% of working residents work in Williamsport
Where Eldred Township clocks in
20% of workers
9% of workers
6% 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.
Jobs in Eldred Township: what the 102 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Eldred Township, 2013 → 2023: 91 → 102. 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 Eldred Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Eldred Township: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Eldred Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 872 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 distance from Eldred Township to work
About 29% 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 Eldred Township, the car does most of the work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 5.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 962 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). 1.6% of Eldred Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Eldred Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Eldred Township is 961st of 5,509 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 31 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 57 | West Conshohocken PA | 1,498 | $139K | 5.0% | 1.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 959 | Maineville OH | 1,518 | $93K | 9.5% | 2.5% | 0% | B+ |
| 960 | Ten Mile Township KS | 1,611 | $122K | 12.5% | 2.4% | 1% | B+ |
| 961 | Eldred Township PA | 1,968 | $99K | 4.9% | 1.3% | 1% | B+ |
| 962 | Gibbsboro NJ | 2,257 | $100K | 4.7% | 7.9% | 5% | B+ |
| 963 | Noble Township IN | 1,591 | $96K | 4.1% | 0.0% | 1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Eldred Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Work next door: 11% of Eldred Township’s workers
The biggest share goes to Loyalsock Township (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Eldred Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eldred Township | – | B+ | C+ | 29 min | $99,464 |
| Upper Fairfield Township | 2% | B | D | 20 min | $79,423 |
| Plunketts Creek Township | under 2% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Hepburn Township | under 2% | A− | C | 20 min | $81,488 |
| Loyalsock Township | 9% | C | B+ | 15 min | $59,491 |
| Gamble Township | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Plunketts Creek Township and Gamble Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Eldred 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 Eldred Township: questions
What is the median household income in Eldred Township?
$99,464 (±$22,261) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Eldred Township?
4.9%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Eldred Township?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Eldred Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Williamsport (20%, 7 mi), Loyalsock Township (9%, 4 mi), Montoursville (6%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Eldred Township walkable?
Eldred Township is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Eldred Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Eldred Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Eldred 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.