Photo: Nicholas from Pennsylvania, USA · CC BY 2.0With 0.3 jobs for every working resident, most of Glade Township works elsewhere
Working from home is the commute for 6% of workers, against 16% across Pennsylvania. There are 246 jobs in Glade Township for 936 working residents. Jobs and income earn Glade Township C; getting around on foot earns it C.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Glade Township at work: what stands out
Much of Glade Township works one town over
49% of working residents work in a town that borders Glade Township: Warren (40%) and Conewango Township (9%). Next door ↓
Glade Township is a place people come home to
There are 246 jobs based in Glade Township, about three for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Glade Township has about 1,300 people in it, 35% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Glade Township are quick
The average trip to work takes 19 minutes, against 26 across Pennsylvania. That’s about 54 hours a year less on the road than the typical Pennsylvania worker. Time on the road ↓
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 936 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Glade Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Glade Township is better than 35% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Glade Township’s grade up (9.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 19% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.1%) is left out: Glade 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, Glade Township could be anywhere from D to B.
In and out of Glade Township on a workday
On a workday 917 residents head out to work, 19 work right here, and 227 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Glade 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 2023, primary jobs.
The trip to work from Glade Township: about 19 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Glade Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 718 commuters (the 6% 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.
40% of working residents work in Warren
Where Glade Township clocks in
40% of workers
9% of workers
4% 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.
69% of the jobs in Glade Township pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Glade Township, 2013 → 2023: 169 → 246. 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 Glade Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Glade Township’s commute, mile by mile
About 23% 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 Glade Township, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Glade Township is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 3.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 765 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). 11.6% of Glade Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Glade Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Glade Township is 2,924th of 5,234 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,600 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 29 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 52 | West Conshohocken PA | 1,498 | $139K | 5.0% | 1.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,922 | Liberty Township OH | 2,115 | $70K | 6.2% | 0.4% | 4% | C |
| 2,923 | Conemaugh Township PA | 1,880 | $63K | 11.4% | 5.4% | 5% | C |
| 2,924 | Glade Township PA | 1,959 | $73K | 9.4% | 2.1% | 2% | C |
| 2,925 | Chemung NY | 2,267 | $65K | 8.5% | 4.6% | 6% | C |
| 2,926 | Lodi NY | 1,478 | $78K | 9.4% | 3.4% | 4% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,234 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Glade Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Bordering towns draw 49% of Glade Township’s workers
The biggest share goes to Warren (40%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Glade Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glade Township | – | C | C | 19 min | $73,388 |
| Mead Township | under 2% | D | C | 21 min | $54,076 |
| Conewango Township | 9% | C− | B− | 18 min | $57,050 |
| Warren | 40% | C+ | A | 15 min | $53,815 |
| Elk Township | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Pine Grove Township | under 2% | B− | C− | 23 min | $96,318 |
Same-state neighbors only. Elk Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Glade 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 Glade Township: questions
What is the median household income in Glade Township?
$73,388 (±$14,887) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Glade Township?
9.4%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Glade Township?
19 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Glade Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Warren (40%, 4 mi), Conewango Township (9%, 8 mi), Erie (4%, 55 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Glade Township walkable?
Glade Township is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 3.4 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Glade 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 Glade Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Glade 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.