Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0Unemployment in Halifax Township (5.0%) is higher than in 61% of U.S. towns
Working residents average 27 minutes each way; Pennsylvania averages 26, the U.S. 26. For jobs and income Halifax Township is better than 53% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns (B+). Only 7% work in Halifax Township itself; outside it, Harrisburg draws the most (12%, 14 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 Halifax Township
Why Halifax Township gets the Jobs & income grade it does
The poverty rate holds Halifax Township’s grade up (6.9%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down. It also does well on job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Halifax Township could be anywhere from C to A.
What work there is in Halifax Township: 886 jobs
886 jobs are based in Halifax Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Halifax Township, 2013 → 2023: 795 → 886. 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 Halifax Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How a workday changes Halifax Township
On a workday 1,370 residents head out to work, 110 work right here, and 776 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,800 people are in Halifax Township on a workday afternoon, 18% fewer than live here.
0.60 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.
Commuting out of Halifax Township: the destinations
Where Halifax Township clocks in
12% 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.
A commute of about 27 minutes in Halifax Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Halifax Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,299 commuters (the 11% 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 Halifax Township works
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.
Getting around Halifax Township: mostly by car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 6.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 6.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,466 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). 9.2% of Halifax Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Halifax Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Halifax Township next to U.S. towns of 2,300 to 4,500: 2,158th of 4,593 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 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Wallace Township PA | 3,759 | $183K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Pocopson Township PA | 4,480 | $230K | 1.3% | 2.2% | 3% | A+ |
| 66 | West Pikeland Township PA | 4,045 | $226K | 0.9% | 2.8% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,156 | Quincy Township MI | 4,140 | $70K | 9.3% | 2.4% | 9% | B− |
| 2,157 | Pine River Township MI | 2,357 | $71K | 9.5% | 2.8% | 4% | B− |
| 2,158 | Halifax Township PA | 3,352 | $71K | 6.9% | 5.0% | 7% | B− |
| 2,159 | Norco LA | 2,781 | $71K | 14.8% | 3.9% | 7% | B− |
| 2,160 | Pottsville AR | 3,326 | $69K | 11.9% | 2.2% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,593 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Halifax Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Halifax Township and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Upper Paxton Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Halifax Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Halifax Township | – | B− | B+ | 27 min | $70,854 |
| Watts Township | under 2% | A− | D | 31 min | $94,375 |
| Buffalo Township | under 2% | B | D− | 33 min | $83,036 |
| Reed Township | under 2% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| Upper Paxton Township | 3% | C | C | 33 min | $58,105 |
| Middle Paxton Township | under 2% | A− | D | 25 min | $80,391 |
Same-state neighbors only. Reed Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Halifax 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 Halifax Township: questions
What is the median household income in Halifax Township?
$70,854 (±$10,881) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Halifax Township?
6.9%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Halifax Township?
27 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Halifax Township work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Harrisburg (12%, 14 mi), Susquehanna Township (6%, 12 mi), Lower Paxton Township (5%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Halifax Township walkable?
Halifax Township is more walkable than 72% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Halifax Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Halifax Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Halifax 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.