Photo: The original uploader was Willjay at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.6 jobs for every working resident, most of Elverson works elsewhere
For jobs and income Elverson is better than 65% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 87% of U.S. towns (A). Elverson has 338 jobs; 598 of its residents have a job. Only 2% stay in Elverson for work; outside it, West Nantmeal Township is the main destination (6%, 2 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Elverson at work: what stands out
What’s behind Elverson’s Jobs & income grade
Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 74% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (9.4%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
Unemployment (2.1%) is left out: Elverson’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, Elverson could be anywhere from B− to A−.
Making and building: 54% of jobs based in Elverson
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Elverson, 2013 → 2023: 348 → 338. 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 Elverson’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Elverson
On a workday 587 residents head out to work, 11 work right here, and 327 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Elverson on a workday afternoon, 19% 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.
The places Elverson commutes to
Where Elverson clocks in
6% of workers
5% 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.
Each way, about 25 minutes from Elverson
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Elverson workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 465 commuters (the 17% 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 many miles Elverson commutes
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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Elverson
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 9.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 8.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 560 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 10.2% of Elverson households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Elverson’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Elverson is 1,260th among 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,258 | Cato WI | 1,676 | $92K | 9.1% | 1.2% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,259 | Nelson GA | 1,172 | $89K | 7.9% | 6.9% | 0% | B+ |
| 1,260 | Elverson PA | 1,396 | $78K | 9.4% | 2.1% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,261 | Palestine Township IL | 1,115 | $77K | 5.6% | 8.1% | <1% | B+ |
| 1,262 | Howard Township IN | 1,220 | $96K | 0.4% | 0.0% | <1% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Elverson, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Around Elverson: the bordering towns
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Elverson workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elverson | – | B+ | A | 25 min | $78,000 |
| West Nantmeal Township | 6% | A | B+ | 28 min | $126,154 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to West Nantmeal Township. Darker towns draw more of Elverson’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 Elverson: questions
What is the median household income in Elverson?
$78,000 (±$11,477) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Elverson?
9.4%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Elverson?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Elverson work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are West Nantmeal Township (6%, 2 mi), Caernarvon Township (6%, 3 mi), Philadelphia (5%, 38 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Elverson walkable?
Elverson is more walkable than 87% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.3 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Elverson without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Elverson, from the people who make the trip.
More of Elverson
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.