Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Freeland has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
7% of workers work from home, where Pennsylvania as a whole has 16%. There are 287 jobs in Freeland, against 1,531 working residents. Jobs and income earn Freeland C−; getting around on foot earns it B+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Freeland
Freeland is a place people come home to
There are 287 jobs based in Freeland, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Freeland has about 2,600 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Freeland than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Freeland fell from 384 in 2013 to 287 in 2023, −25%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. 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.
How Freeland earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Freeland is better than 22% of U.S. towns, #933 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Job access by car holds Freeland’s grade up (ahead of 53% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (24.0%, U.S. 12.5%).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Freeland could be anywhere from D to B.
Who commutes out of Freeland, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,463 residents head out to work, 68 work right here, and 219 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,600 people are in Freeland on a workday afternoon, 33% 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.
Jobs in Freeland: what the 287 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Freeland, 2013 → 2023: 384 → 287. 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 Freeland’s own residents hold wherever they work.
22% of working residents work in Hazle Township
Where Freeland clocks in
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.
The trip to work from Freeland: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Freeland workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,502 commuters (the 7% 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 it is to work from Freeland
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.
In Freeland, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Freeland is more walkable than 73% of U.S. towns, #378 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.3% 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 1,609 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). 11.2% of Freeland households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Freeland’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Freeland is 3,292nd among 4,153 U.S. towns of 2,700 to 5,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Wallace Township PA | 3,759 | $183K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Edgmont Township PA | 4,706 | $137K | 2.4% | 1.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 62 | Pocopson Township PA | 4,480 | $230K | 1.3% | 2.2% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,290 | Arcadia SC | 3,426 | $55K | 21.3% | 7.9% | 1% | C− |
| 3,291 | Edenton NC | 4,546 | $38K | 30.0% | 0.0% | 33% | C− |
| 3,292 | Freeland PA | 3,811 | $58K | 24.0% | 5.2% | 4% | C− |
| 3,293 | Poteet TX | 3,010 | $49K | 17.0% | 6.4% | 8% | C− |
| 3,294 | Six Mile Township IL | 3,450 | $56K | 10.2% | 8.0% | 8% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,153 | 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 Freeland, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
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 Freeland: questions
What is the median household income in Freeland?
$57,833 (±$18,423) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Freeland?
24.0%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Freeland?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Freeland work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hazle Township (22%, 8 mi), West Hazleton (7%, 8 mi), Hazleton (5%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Freeland walkable?
Freeland is more walkable than 73% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 10.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Freeland 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 Freeland, from the people who make the trip.
More of Freeland
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.