Photo: Nyttend · Public domainWith 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Evans City works elsewhere
Employers in Evans City report 393 jobs, against 860 working residents. Evans City grades B for jobs and income and A− for walkability. Only 3% work in Evans City; the top destination outside it is Cranberry Township (13%, 5 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs & income in Evans City: the grade in detail
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Evans City is better than 60% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Evans City’s grade up (4.1%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (7.2%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Evans City could be anywhere from B− to A.
Evans City on a workday afternoon
On a workday 838 residents head out to work, 22 work right here, and 371 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Evans City on a workday afternoon, 28% 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.
The places Evans City commutes to
Where Evans City clocks in
13% of workers
12% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 28% of the jobs in Evans City
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Evans City, 2014 → 2024: 507 → 393. 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 Evans City’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 25 minutes each way for Evans City’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Evans City workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 967 commuters (the 14% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Evans City
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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Evans City
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Evans City is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.6% 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 1,124 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). 7.1% of Evans City households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Evans City’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Evans City is 1,615th of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 7% | A+ |
| 37 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,613 | Woodlawn VA | 2,250 | $78K | 7.6% | 2.1% | 2% | B |
| 1,614 | Milford NJ | 1,224 | $72K | 8.8% | 5.8% | 1% | B |
| 1,615 | Evans City PA | 1,670 | $74K | 4.1% | 7.2% | 3% | B |
| 1,616 | Spring Green WI | 1,567 | $87K | 6.8% | 3.1% | 18% | B |
| 1,617 | Grizzly Flats CA | 1,410 | $92K | 1.6% | 0.0% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Evans City, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Next door to Evans City
The biggest share goes to Forward Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Evans City workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evans City | – | B | A− | 25 min | $74,107 |
| Forward Township | 4% | A+ | D | 31 min | $107,386 |
| Jackson Township | 4% | A | C+ | 26 min | $119,741 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Evans City’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 Evans City: questions
What is the median household income in Evans City?
$74,107 (±$5,360) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Evans City?
4.1%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Evans City?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Evans City work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Cranberry Township (13%, 5 mi), Pittsburgh (12%, 23 mi), Jackson Township (4%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Evans City walkable?
Evans City is more walkable than 77% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 11.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Evans City without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Evans City, from the people who make the trip.
More of Evans City
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.