Photo: Nyttend · Public domainEllport has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
There are 158 jobs in Ellport, against 511 working residents. Ellport grades B+ for jobs and income and B for walkability. Only 3% work in Ellport itself; outside it, Ellwood City draws the most (10%, 1 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Ellport
On income, poverty and job access, Ellport is better than 68% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Ellport’s grade up (5.7%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($74,625, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (4.2%) is left out: Ellport’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Ellport could be anywhere from C+ to A.
The workday shuffle in and out of Ellport
On a workday 495 residents head out to work, 16 work right here, and 142 people come in from elsewhere.
About 730 people are in Ellport on a workday afternoon, 33% 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 2024, primary jobs.
Where people from Ellport work
Where Ellport clocks in
10% of workers
6% 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.
What Ellport’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ellport, 2014 → 2024: 161 → 158. 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 Ellport’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 26 minutes from Ellport
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ellport workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 436 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 commute from Ellport, by distance
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.
Ellport is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Ellport is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.9% 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 477 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). 1.3% of Ellport households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Ellport’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ellport next to U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500: 683rd of 3,771 on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 681 | Ravenna MI | 1,409 | $78K | 6.3% | 3.4% | 5% | B+ |
| 682 | Liberty Center OH | 1,094 | $78K | 5.7% | 2.5% | 3% | B+ |
| 683 | Ellport PA | 1,081 | $75K | 5.7% | 4.2% | 3% | B+ |
| 684 | Bally PA | 1,243 | $76K | 8.6% | 1.2% | 4% | B+ |
| 685 | Center Township IN | 1,453 | $87K | 4.4% | 1.2% | <1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Ellport, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Next door to Ellport
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Ellport workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ellport | – | B+ | B | 26 min | $74,625 |
| Wayne Township | under 3% | B− | C | 27 min | $74,375 |
| Perry Township | under 3% | B+ | C | 23 min | $86,576 |
| Frisco | under 3% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Wurtemburg | under 3% | — | — | 22 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Frisco and Wurtemburg: Census-designated places inside larger towns, graded as part of them. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Ellport’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 Ellport: questions
What is the median household income in Ellport?
$74,625 (±$22,982) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ellport?
5.7%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ellport?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ellport work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Ellwood City (10%, 1 mi), Cranberry Township (6%, 13 mi), Zelienople (4%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Ellport walkable?
Ellport is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 9.7 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Ellport without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Ellport, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ellport
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.