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 4.0Glenburn Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
Glenburn Township has 165 jobs, and 580 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Glenburn Township A−; getting around on foot earns it B−. Only 1% stay in Glenburn Township for work; outside it, Scranton is the main destination (15%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Glenburn Township, in brief
The figures behind Glenburn Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Glenburn Township is better than 79% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input (4.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 57% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (9.3%) is left out: Glenburn Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Glenburn Township could be anywhere from B to A.
Who commutes out of Glenburn Township, and who commutes in
On a workday 574 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 159 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,000 people are in Glenburn Township on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
Where people from Glenburn Township work
Where Glenburn Township clocks in
15% 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.
What Glenburn Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Glenburn Township, 2014 → 2024: 177 → 165. 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 Glenburn Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 25 minutes in Glenburn Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Glenburn Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 478 commuters (the 12% 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.
Glenburn Township’s commute, mile by mile
About 22% 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.
Getting around Glenburn Township: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Glenburn Township is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Glenburn Township near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 542 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). 10.2% of Glenburn Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Glenburn Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Glenburn Township next to U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900: 618th of 5,877 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 616 | Harrison Township ND | 1,734 | $122K | 5.1% | 5.2% | 4% | A− |
| 617 | Liberty Township PA | 1,820 | $94K | 3.3% | 1.3% | 1% | A− |
| 618 | Glenburn Township PA | 1,436 | $88K | 4.1% | 9.3% | 1% | A− |
| 619 | Emmet WI | 1,274 | $96K | 5.3% | 7.3% | 4% | A− |
| 620 | Hasley Canyon CA | 1,216 | $145K | 10.8% | 23.4% | 0% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | 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 Glenburn Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
How Glenburn Township compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to South Abington Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Glenburn Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenburn Township | – | A− | B− | 25 min | $88,333 |
| Waverly Township | under 2% | A+ | B | 28 min | $151,442 |
| South Abington Township | 4% | A− | C+ | 26 min | $113,615 |
| Dalton | 2% | B+ | C+ | 23 min | $95,862 |
| West Abington Township | under 2% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| Newton Township | under 2% | A− | C− | 26 min | $107,847 |
Same-state neighbors only. West Abington Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Glenburn 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 Glenburn Township: questions
What is the median household income in Glenburn Township?
$88,333 (±$18,968) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Glenburn Township?
4.1%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Glenburn Township?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Glenburn Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Scranton (15%, 8 mi), Dunmore (6%, 10 mi), Clarks Summit (6%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Glenburn Township walkable?
Glenburn Township is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Glenburn Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Glenburn Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Glenburn 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.