Martin Schultz House · Photo: Paul Galbreath · Public domainMost of Hallam commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
629 jobs are based in Hallam for 1,270 working residents. Hallam grades B for jobs and income and B− for walkability. 2% of workers work from home; Pennsylvania has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Hallam apart on work
The figures behind Hallam’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Hallam is better than 60% of U.S. towns, #584 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Job access by car holds Hallam’s grade up (ahead of 81% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (17.5%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hallam could be anywhere from C to A.
Each way, about 23 minutes from Hallam
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hallam workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,348 commuters (the 2% 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.
Who commutes out of Hallam, and who commutes in
On a workday 1,250 residents head out to work, 20 work right here, and 609 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,200 people are in Hallam on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
9% of working residents work in York
Where Hallam clocks in
9% of workers
5% 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.
Jobs in Hallam: what the 629 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hallam, 2013 → 2023: 732 → 629. 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 Hallam’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Hallam to work
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.
For most of Hallam, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hallam is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns, #585 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.6% across Pennsylvania.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,372 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 99% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 26% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.0 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 58% 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). 0.5% of Hallam households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hallam’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Hallam is 1,721st of 4,703 U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,800
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Wallace Township PA | 3,759 | $183K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Churchill PA | 3,014 | $107K | 1.9% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,719 | Sussex NJ | 2,079 | $76K | 10.3% | 2.8% | 3% | B |
| 1,720 | Camden NY | 2,124 | $78K | 7.5% | 1.8% | 20% | B |
| 1,721 | Hallam PA | 2,798 | $75K | 17.5% | 2.7% | 2% | B |
| 1,722 | Muncy PA | 2,383 | $86K | 8.4% | 4.4% | 5% | B |
| 1,723 | Lead SD | 3,064 | $73K | 7.5% | 0.0% | 18% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,703 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Hallam, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
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 Hallam: questions
What is the median household income in Hallam?
$75,000 (±$9,656) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hallam?
17.5%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hallam?
23 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 2% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hallam work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are York (9%, 7 mi), Springettsbury Township (9%, 4 mi), York Township (5%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hallam walkable?
Hallam is more walkable than 51% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 13.0 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hallam without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. 26% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hallam, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hallam
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.