Photo: Photo by User:Kmf164 · CC BY-SA 2.5Everett has lower household incomes than 97% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 24.5% of residents, where Pennsylvania as a whole has 11.7%. For jobs and income Everett is better than 4% of U.S. towns (D−); for walkability it is more walkable than 93% of U.S. towns (A). Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers; Pennsylvania has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Everett: the gist
Stores, warehouses and trucking
45% of the jobs in Everett are in trade, transport and utilities, against 27% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
The better-paid jobs are outside Everett
51% of Everett residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 31% of the jobs based in Everett pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 91% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Many jobs in Everett pay little
26% of the jobs based in Everett pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 778 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Everett
Job access by car holds Everett’s grade up (ahead of 24% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($38,565, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (5.0%) is left out: Everett’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, Everett could be anywhere from D− to D.
Jobs in Everett: what the 551 are
551 jobs are based in Everett.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Everett, 2013 → 2023: 550 → 551. 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 Everett’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Everett by day
On a workday 707 residents head out to work, 71 work right here, and 480 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Everett on a workday afternoon, 13% fewer than live here.
0.71 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 2023, primary jobs.
Where people from Everett work
Where Everett clocks in
16% of workers
10% 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.
About 25 minutes to work from Everett
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Everett workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 858 commuters (the 5% 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 Everett to work
About 24% 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.
Everett is easy on foot, hard by bus
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 901 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). 10.8% of Everett households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Everett’s commuters take a bus or train.
Everett next to 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% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 37 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,336 | Cairo IL | 1,515 | $42K | 19.0% | 14.6% | 19% | D− |
| 5,337 | Forsyth MT | 1,652 | $40K | 14.1% | 4.1% | 36% | D− |
| 5,338 | Everett PA | 1,732 | $39K | 24.5% | 5.0% | 9% | D− |
| 5,339 | Terra Alta WV | 1,413 | $51K | 29.1% | 9.5% | 4% | D− |
| 5,340 | Petersburg WV | 2,282 | $43K | 19.5% | 2.1% | 30% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Everett, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Work in the towns next to Everett
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Everett workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Everett | – | D− | A | 25 min | $38,565 |
| Earlston | under 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Earlston: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Everett’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 Everett: questions
What is the median household income in Everett?
$38,565 (±$9,690) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Everett?
24.5%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Everett?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Everett work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Bedford Township (16%, 8 mi), West Providence Township (10%, 2 mi), Snake Spring Township (5%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Everett walkable?
Everett is more walkable than 93% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 11.4 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Everett without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Everett, from the people who make the trip.
More of Everett
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.