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5% of workers work from home (Pennsylvania 16%). Employers in Hastings report 209 jobs, against 448 working residents. For jobs and income Hastings is better than 45% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (B+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Hastings, in a few figures
How Hastings earns its Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Hastings’ grade up (7.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 32% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Hastings’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, Hastings could be anywhere from C− to B+.
31% of the jobs in Hastings make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hastings, 2014 → 2024: 317 → 209. 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 Hastings’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in Hastings, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 436 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 197 people come in from elsewhere.
About 930 people are in Hastings on a workday afternoon, 20% 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.
8% of working residents work in Altoona
Where Hastings clocks in
8% 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.
Time on the road from Hastings: about 25 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hastings workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 409 commuters (the 5% 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 Hastings to work
About 26% 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.
For most of Hastings, work means a drive
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.3% of 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 431 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). 9.2% of Hastings households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hastings’ commuters take a bus or train.
1,662nd of 4,312: where Hastings ranks among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,660 | Upper Turkeyfoot Township PA | 1,036 | $75K | 4.8% | 6.8% | 1% | B− |
| 1,661 | Amnicon WI | 1,213 | $62K | 5.7% | 2.5% | 1% | B− |
| 1,662 | Hastings PA | 1,168 | $71K | 7.4% | 0.0% | 3% | B− |
| 1,663 | Watertown Township MI | 1,241 | $73K | 4.7% | 2.3% | 5% | B− |
| 1,664 | Green Springs OH | 1,316 | $70K | 8.7% | 2.5% | 3% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Hastings, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Hastings and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Elder Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hastings workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hastings | – | B− | B+ | 25 min | $70,625 |
| Elder Township | 4% | C+ | D | 34 min | $62,083 |
| Susquehanna Township | under 3% | C− | C+ | 27 min | $52,431 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Hastings’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 Hastings: questions
What is the median household income in Hastings?
$70,625 (±$12,514) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hastings?
7.4%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hastings?
25 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hastings work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Altoona (8%, 20 mi), Northern Cambria (4%, 4 mi), Johnstown (4%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Hastings walkable?
Hastings is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 11.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hastings without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hastings, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hastings
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.