Photo: User:Dincher · CC BY-SA 3.0Hartley Township has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Jobs and income earn Hartley Township C−; getting around on foot earns it C+. Hartley Township has 170 jobs; 725 of its residents have a job. Only 7% work in Hartley Township itself; outside it, Mifflinburg draws the most (15%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Hartley Township stands out on work
Jobs & income in Hartley Township: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Hartley Township is better than 18% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Hartley Township’s grade up ($67,356, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 17% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.7%) is left out: Hartley 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, Hartley Township could be anywhere from D to C+.
In and out of Hartley Township on a workday
On a workday 677 residents head out to work, 48 work right here, and 122 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Hartley 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.
Out of Hartley Township to work: where people go
Where Hartley Township clocks in
15% of workers
6% 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.
Jobs in Hartley Township: what the 170 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hartley Township, 2014 → 2024: 137 → 170. 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 Hartley Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Getting to work from Hartley Township takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hartley Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 586 commuters (the 13% 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.
The distance from Hartley Township to work
About 20% 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.
Driving is how Hartley Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hartley Township is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 4.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 673 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). 6.2% of Hartley Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hartley Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 5,760 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,300, Hartley Township comes 4,204th 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 36 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 7% | A+ |
| 37 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,202 | Gregory TX | 1,708 | $47K | 39.2% | 5.2% | 2% | C− |
| 4,203 | Clinton Township IN | 1,292 | $48K | 8.8% | 7.4% | 1% | C− |
| 4,204 | Hartley Township PA | 1,717 | $67K | 15.2% | 0.7% | 7% | C− |
| 4,205 | Grandview Plaza KS | 1,685 | $42K | 11.7% | 6.4% | 3% | C− |
| 4,206 | Franklinville NY | 1,632 | $72K | 15.2% | 5.1% | 12% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,760 | 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 Hartley Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Work in the towns next to Hartley Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hartley Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hartley Township | – | C− | C+ | 26 min | $67,356 |
| Hartleton | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Lewis Township | under 2% | C | C+ | 29 min | $63,590 |
| Haines Township | under 2% | C− | B− | 31 min | $76,667 |
| Armagh Township | under 2% | C | D | 31 min | $74,278 |
Same-state neighbors only. Hartleton: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Hartley 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 Hartley Township: questions
What is the median household income in Hartley Township?
$67,356 (±$4,119) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hartley Township?
15.2%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hartley Township?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hartley Township work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mifflinburg (15%, 12 mi), Kelly Township (6%, 19 mi), Buffalo Township (4%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Hartley Township walkable?
Hartley Township is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.5 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hartley Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hartley Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hartley 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.