Photo: Nyttend · Public domainAt 2.5%, unemployment in Georges Township is lower than in 77% of U.S. towns
The two grades for Georges Township are B for jobs and income and C for walkability. Home is the office for 3% of workers; Pennsylvania has 16%. About one in ten stay in Georges Township for work; outside it, North Union Township is the main destination (8%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Georges Township
Georges Township trades workers with the towns around it
Georges Township has about as many jobs (2,563) as working residents (2,594), but they are mostly different people: 2,335 residents leave for work each day while 2,304 people come in. Only 10% of the jobs in Georges Township are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Georges Township makes and builds things
51% of the jobs based in Georges Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Georges Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 21%. The jobs ↓
Few Georges 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 ↓
No single place dominates Georges Township’s commute
The biggest draw, North Union Township, gets only 8% of working residents, and 51% work outside the top ten towns entirely. Georges Township residents fan out across the region. The commute map ↓
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.
What’s behind Georges Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Georges Township is better than 59% of U.S. towns, #594 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Unemployment holds Georges Township’s grade up; the poverty rate pulls it down (12.2%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Georges Township could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Georges Township by day and by night
On a workday 2,335 residents head out to work, 259 work right here, and 2,304 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.99 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
51% of the jobs in Georges Township make or build things
2,563 jobs are based in Georges Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Georges Township, 2013 → 2023: 2,082 → 2,563. 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 Georges Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 27 minutes to work from Georges Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Georges Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,998 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.
Where Georges Township goes to work
Where Georges Township clocks in
7% 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.
How far Georges Township goes to work
About 15% 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 Georges Township, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Georges Township is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns, #825 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 5.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,095 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). 3.8% of Georges Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Georges Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Georges Township ranks: 1,532nd of 3,307 U.S. towns of 4,300 to 8,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
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| 25 | West Vincent Township PA | 6,885 | $203K | 1.4% | 0.8% | 4% | A+ |
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| 30 | Edgmont Township PA | 4,706 | $137K | 2.4% | 1.1% | 3% | A+ |
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| 63 | Pocopson Township PA | 4,480 | $230K | 1.3% | 2.2% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,530 | German Township IN | 7,491 | $81K | 6.0% | 5.9% | 3% | B |
| 1,531 | Binghamton NY | 4,435 | $105K | 8.2% | 6.4% | 4% | B |
| 1,532 | Georges Township PA | 6,092 | $90K | 12.2% | 2.5% | 10% | B |
| 1,533 | Broadview Park FL | 7,119 | $74K | 18.8% | 3.4% | 2% | B |
| 1,534 | River Ridge FL | 5,149 | $103K | 6.1% | 9.4% | 1% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,307 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Georges Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Bordering towns draw 11% of Georges Township’s workers
The biggest share goes to South Union Township (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Georges Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georges Township | – | B | C | 27 min | $90,443 |
| South Union Township | 7% | B | B− | 22 min | $77,708 |
| Wharton Township | 2% | C+ | B | 21 min | $71,667 |
| Springhill Township | under 2% | D− | D− | 28 min | $44,700 |
| German Township | 2% | C | D | 29 min | $61,834 |
| Nicholson Township | under 2% | C | D− | 32 min | $65,096 |
| Leith-Hatfield | under 2% | — | — | 20 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Leith-Hatfield: 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 Georges 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 Georges Township: questions
What is the median household income in Georges Township?
$90,443 (±$18,029) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Georges Township?
12.2%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Georges Township?
27 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Georges Township work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are North Union Township (8%, 7 mi), South Union Township (7%, 4 mi), Uniontown (7%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Georges Township walkable?
Georges Township is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Georges Township without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Georges Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Georges 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.