Photo: Nicholas · CC BY 2.0How Greene Township works: jobs, income and commuting
For jobs and income Greene Township is better than 34% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (C+). About one in ten work in Greene Township itself; outside it, Williamsport draws the most (9%, 17 miles). The trip to work takes 28 minutes on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Greene Township stands out on work
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Greene Township
The poverty rate holds Greene Township’s grade up (10.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 21% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.7%) is left out: Greene 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, Greene Township could be anywhere from C− to B.
Greene Township works in goods: 51% of its jobs
458 jobs are based in Greene Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Greene Township, 2013 → 2023: 367 → 458. 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 Greene Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How a workday changes Greene Township
On a workday 594 residents head out to work, 80 work right here, and 378 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,600 people are in Greene Township on a workday afternoon, 12% fewer than live here.
0.68 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 places Greene Township commutes to
Where Greene Township clocks in
9% of workers
4% 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.
The trip to work from Greene Township: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Greene Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 697 commuters (the 16% 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 in the region Greene Township works
About 27% 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.
Greene Township is a driving town
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 5.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 827 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). 30.1% of Greene Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Greene Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,343 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,400, Greene Township comes 2,970th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 34 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,968 | Aubbeenaubbee Township IN | 1,347 | $78K | 9.3% | 9.5% | 1% | C |
| 2,969 | Avoca NY | 1,927 | $68K | 13.3% | 2.9% | 8% | C |
| 2,970 | Greene Township PA | 1,812 | $74K | 10.2% | 0.7% | 12% | C |
| 2,971 | Franklin Township PA | 2,272 | $57K | 10.9% | 8.5% | 5% | C |
| 2,972 | Watts Mills SC | 1,942 | $51K | 8.7% | 10.9% | 1% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,343 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 0% | 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 Greene Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Greene Township and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Crawford Township (2%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Greene Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greene Township | – | C | C+ | 28 min | $73,517 |
| Logan Township | under 2% | — | — | 33 min | — |
| Crawford Township | 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Miles Township | under 2% | B− | C+ | 28 min | $71,544 |
| Lamar Township | 2% | B | C | 23 min | $92,188 |
| Lewis Township | under 2% | C | C+ | 29 min | $63,590 |
| Wayne Township | under 2% | C+ | B− | 22 min | $72,396 |
Same-state neighbors only. Logan Township and Crawford Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Greene 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 Greene Township: questions
What is the median household income in Greene Township?
$73,517 (±$4,795) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Greene Township?
10.2%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Greene Township?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Greene Township work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Williamsport (9%, 17 mi), Loganton (4%, 2 mi), Lock Haven (4%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Greene Township walkable?
Greene Township is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Greene Township without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 30% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Greene Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Greene 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.