Photo: Nicholas · CC BY 2.0Haines Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Employers in Haines Township report 119 jobs, and 622 of its residents work somewhere. Haines Township grades C− for jobs and income and B− for walkability. Only 4% stay in Haines Township for work; outside it, College Township is the main destination (11%, 24 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Haines Township, in a few figures
Haines Township is a place people come home to
There are 119 jobs based in Haines Township, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Haines Township has about 1,100 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Haines Township’s biggest commute is a long one
The top workplace outside Haines Township is College Township, 24 miles away as the crow flies. 11% of working residents (69) make that trip; no town closer to home draws more of them. How far ↓
Haines Township workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 31 minutes each way, against 26 across Pennsylvania. Over a year that’s about 238 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 622 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How Haines Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Haines Township is better than 25% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Haines Township’s grade up ($76,667, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 18% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.4%) is left out: Haines 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, Haines Township could be anywhere from D to B.
In and out of Haines Township on a workday
On a workday 598 residents head out to work, 24 work right here, and 95 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Haines Township on a workday afternoon, 32% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Haines Township
About 24% 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.
From Haines Township, about 31 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Haines Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 597 commuters (the 18% 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 people from Haines Township work
Where Haines Township clocks in
11% of workers
6% 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.
Haines Township works in goods: 55% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Haines Township, 2014 → 2024: 101 → 119. 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 Haines Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute in Haines Township is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Haines Township is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 13.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 3.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 726 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 26.9% of Haines Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Haines Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200, Haines Township ranks 3,978th of 6,161 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
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| 13 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,976 | Ricks Township IL | 1,152 | $79K | 14.7% | 1.6% | 4% | C− |
| 3,977 | Wales ME | 1,673 | $77K | 25.3% | 4.7% | 2% | C− |
| 3,978 | Haines Township PA | 1,595 | $77K | 15.0% | 3.4% | 4% | C− |
| 3,979 | South Shenango Township PA | 1,819 | $67K | 12.7% | 2.8% | 5% | C− |
| 3,980 | Leon WI | 1,569 | $68K | 13.2% | 2.0% | 1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Haines Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Work next door: 13% of Haines Township’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Haines Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Haines Township | – | C− | B− | 31 min | $76,667 |
| Miles Township | 2% | B− | C+ | 28 min | $71,544 |
| Armagh Township | under 3% | C | D | 31 min | $74,278 |
| Hartley Township | under 3% | C− | C+ | 26 min | $67,356 |
| Penn Township | 11% | C | B+ | 38 min | $69,550 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Penn Township. Darker towns draw more of Haines 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 Haines Township: questions
What is the median household income in Haines Township?
$76,667 (±$16,651) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Haines Township?
15.0%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Haines Township?
31 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Haines Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are College Township (11%, 24 mi), Penn Township (11%, 7 mi), State College (6%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Haines Township walkable?
Haines Township is more walkable than 52% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 3.8 out of 20, and 14% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Haines Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 27% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Haines Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Haines 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.