Photo: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0Freehold Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
Freehold Township grades D for jobs and income and D for walkability. 58 jobs are based in Freehold Township, and 471 of its residents work somewhere. For 3% of workers, the job is at home, against 16% across Pennsylvania.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Freehold Township: the figures worth knowing
Freehold Township is a place people come home to
There are 58 jobs based in Freehold Township, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Freehold Township has about 760 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Few Freehold Township workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 16% across Pennsylvania. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 471 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Freehold Township gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Freehold Township is better than 15% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Freehold Township’s grade up (13.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 16% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.8%) is left out: Freehold Township’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, Freehold Township could be anywhere from D− to B−.
How a workday changes Freehold Township
On a workday 465 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 52 people come in from elsewhere.
About 760 people are in Freehold Township on a workday afternoon, 35% 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.
Each way, about 29 minutes from Freehold Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Freehold Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 310 commuters (the 3% 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.
15% of working residents work in Corry
Where Freehold Township clocks in
15% of workers
9% of workers
6% 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.
36% of the jobs in Freehold Township make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Freehold Township, 2014 → 2024: 142 → 58. 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 Freehold Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Freehold Township, by distance
About 19% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most of Freehold Township commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Freehold Township is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 3.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 319 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). 12.1% of Freehold Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Freehold Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Freehold Township is 3,255th of 4,312 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600 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+ |
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| 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,253 | Buckeye Township KS | 1,142 | $69K | 19.5% | 2.7% | 2% | D |
| 3,254 | Weare Township MI | 1,256 | $55K | 12.2% | 5.2% | 5% | D |
| 3,255 | Freehold Township PA | 1,168 | $57K | 13.1% | 5.8% | 1% | D |
| 3,256 | Quincy WI | 1,212 | $42K | 9.0% | 0.5% | 5% | D |
| 3,257 | Alamosa East CO | 1,298 | $77K | 27.5% | 0.7% | 2% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Freehold Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Freehold Township and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Columbus Township (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Freehold Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freehold Township | – | D | D | 29 min | $57,279 |
| Sugar Grove Township | under 3% | C− | C− | 27 min | $67,031 |
| Columbus Township | 2% | B− | C− | 29 min | $73,417 |
| Bear Lake | under 3% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Pittsfield Township | under 3% | C− | D | 24 min | $64,712 |
| Spring Creek Township | under 3% | — | — | 28 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Bear Lake and Spring Creek Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Freehold 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 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 Freehold Township: questions
What is the median household income in Freehold Township?
$57,279 (±$20,232) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Freehold Township?
13.1%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Freehold Township?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Freehold Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Corry (15%, 10 mi), Warren (9%, 18 mi), Erie (6%, 34 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Freehold Township walkable?
Freehold Township is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Freehold Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Freehold Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Freehold Township
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.