O'Connor, J.S., American Rich Cut Glassware Factory · Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ, M.D. · CC BY-SA 4.0Hawley has lower household incomes than 90% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 12.2%, next to 11.7% for Pennsylvania as a whole. Hawley grades D for jobs and income and A+ for walkability. For 7% of workers, the job is at home, next to 16% for Pennsylvania as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Hawley, in brief
Hawley has added jobs fast
Jobs based in Hawley went from 379 in 2014 to 513 in 2024, +35%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Hawley are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 26 across Pennsylvania. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Pennsylvania 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 549 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Hawley
On income, poverty and job access, Hawley is better than 13% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Hawley’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($48,160, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (3.1%) is left out: Hawley’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, Hawley could be anywhere from D to C.
Mostly services: health care, schools and offices
513 jobs are based in Hawley.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hawley, 2014 → 2024: 379 → 513. 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 Hawley’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 21 minutes each way, quicker than most of Pennsylvania
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hawley workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 474 commuters (the 7% 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.
How a workday changes Hawley
On a workday 533 residents head out to work, 16 work right here, and 497 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.93 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
13% of working residents work in Honesdale
Where Hawley clocks in
13% of workers
8% 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.
The commute from Hawley, by distance
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.
In Hawley, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hawley is more walkable than 95% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 6.4% 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 512 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all 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). 13.6% of Hawley households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Hawley’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Hawley is 3,348th among 4,312 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+ |
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| 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,346 | Wellsville MO | 1,012 | $61K | 14.4% | 6.2% | 7% | D |
| 3,347 | Williamsport OH | 1,027 | $57K | 20.7% | 4.8% | 1% | D |
| 3,348 | Hawley PA | 1,212 | $48K | 12.2% | 3.1% | 3% | D |
| 3,349 | Farwell TX | 1,387 | $57K | 16.3% | 0.0% | 12% | D |
| 3,350 | Augusta WI | 1,483 | $54K | 18.2% | 1.3% | 14% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Hawley, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Bordering towns draw 11% of Hawley’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hawley workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hawley | – | D | A+ | 21 min | $48,160 |
| Palmyra Township | 4% | B− | B | 30 min | $72,361 |
| Palmyra Township | 7% | B− | B+ | 31 min | $66,071 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Palmyra Township. Darker towns draw more of Hawley’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 Hawley: questions
What is the median household income in Hawley?
$48,160 (±$9,224) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hawley?
12.2%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hawley?
21 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hawley work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Honesdale (13%, 8 mi), Texas Township (8%, 7 mi), Lackawaxen Township (7%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Hawley walkable?
Hawley is more walkable than 95% of U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 16.0 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hawley without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hawley, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hawley
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.