Photo: White Feather Safari Inspecting · CC BY 2.0Almost no one in Fayette Township’s labor force is looking for work
Fayette Township grades B for jobs and income and B− for walkability. About one in ten work in Fayette Township itself; outside it, Walker Township draws the most (7%, 6 miles). A typical one-way commute lasts 28 minutes, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Fayette Township stands out on work
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Fayette Township
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Fayette Township is better than 61% of U.S. towns, #569 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Unemployment holds Fayette Township’s grade up (hardly any, U.S. 5.2%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 19% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Fayette Township could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Making and building: 47% of jobs based in Fayette Township
646 jobs are based in Fayette Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Fayette Township, 2013 → 2023: 600 → 646. 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 Fayette Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Fayette Township for work, and who comes in
On a workday 1,135 residents head out to work, 153 work right here, and 493 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,700 people are in Fayette Township on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.
0.50 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.
The towns that employ Fayette Township’s residents
Where Fayette Township clocks in
7% of workers
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.
About 28 minutes each way for Fayette Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Fayette Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,604 commuters (the 11% 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 far Fayette Township goes to work
About 17% 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.
Driving is how Fayette Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Fayette Township is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns, #646 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 6.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,796 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). 8.9% of Fayette Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Fayette Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Fayette Township next to U.S. towns of 2,300 to 4,500: 1,707th of 4,593 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 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Wallace Township PA | 3,759 | $183K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Pocopson Township PA | 4,480 | $230K | 1.3% | 2.2% | 3% | A+ |
| 66 | West Pikeland Township PA | 4,045 | $226K | 0.9% | 2.8% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,705 | New Baltimore NY | 3,139 | $100K | 8.4% | 3.1% | 5% | B |
| 1,706 | Southington Township OH | 3,700 | $70K | 13.6% | 0.8% | 6% | B |
| 1,707 | Fayette Township PA | 3,337 | $75K | 8.1% | 0.0% | 12% | B |
| 1,708 | Fox Township PA | 3,495 | $75K | 6.0% | 1.6% | 16% | B |
| 1,709 | Bethlehem NC | 4,101 | $88K | 4.5% | 6.0% | 4% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,593 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Fayette Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
18% of Fayette Township works in a town next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Fayette Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fayette Township | – | B | B− | 28 min | $75,250 |
| Decatur Township | under 2% | C | C− | 27 min | $61,302 |
| Walker Township | 7% | B− | B | 25 min | $72,813 |
| Fermanagh Township | 6% | C+ | B− | 29 min | $58,444 |
| Delaware Township | 5% | C− | C− | 28 min | $80,833 |
| West Perry Township | under 2% | C | B− | 31 min | $61,528 |
| West Beaver Township | under 2% | D | D | 29 min | $49,886 |
| Monroe Township | under 2% | C | C | 33 min | $67,000 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Walker Township. Darker towns draw more of Fayette 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 Fayette Township: questions
What is the median household income in Fayette Township?
$75,250 (±$11,814) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Fayette Township?
8.1%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Fayette Township?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Fayette Township work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Walker Township (7%, 6 mi), Fermanagh Township (6%, 6 mi), Harrisburg (5%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Fayette Township walkable?
Fayette Township is more walkable than 46% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Fayette Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Fayette Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Fayette 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.