Photo: Nyttend · Public domainWith 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Hickory Township works elsewhere
Jobs and income earn Hickory Township B+; getting around on foot earns it C+. 484 jobs are based in Hickory Township for 968 working residents. Only 3% work in Hickory Township itself; outside it, New Castle draws the most (11%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Hickory Township stands out on work
Inside Hickory Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Hickory Township is better than 72% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Hickory Township’s grade up (2.1%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($74,478, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Hickory Township could be anywhere from B− to A.
Hickory Township makes things: 47% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hickory Township, 2014 → 2024: 554 → 484. 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 Hickory Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily flow of workers through Hickory Township
On a workday 941 residents head out to work, 27 work right here, and 457 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,800 people are in Hickory Township on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
The places Hickory Township commutes to
Where Hickory Township clocks in
11% of workers
6% 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 24 minutes in Hickory Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hickory Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,089 commuters (the 17% 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 many miles Hickory Township commutes
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Few in Hickory Township walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hickory Township is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 5.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,319 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). 5.3% of Hickory Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Hickory Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Hickory Township next to U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,100: 1,124th of 5,328 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 7% | A+ |
| 27 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 63 | Churchill PA | 3,014 | $107K | 1.9% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,122 | Wayne Township OH | 1,893 | $93K | 2.8% | 2.5% | 4% | B+ |
| 1,123 | Upper Tulpehocken Township PA | 1,904 | $91K | 6.9% | 3.6% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,124 | Hickory Township PA | 2,304 | $74K | 6.2% | 2.1% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,125 | Venetian Village IL | 2,334 | $79K | 4.2% | 5.3% | <1% | B+ |
| 1,126 | Casselton ND | 2,485 | $73K | 7.1% | 0.9% | 20% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,328 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Hickory Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Work next door: 24% of Hickory Township’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hickory Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hickory Township | – | B+ | C+ | 24 min | $74,478 |
| Neshannock Township | 6% | A− | C+ | 23 min | $83,115 |
| New Castle | 11% | D | A− | 22 min | $42,219 |
| Scott Township | under 2% | A | D | 28 min | $83,602 |
| Wilmington Township | 4% | C+ | B− | 26 min | $72,557 |
| Washington Township | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Shenango Township | 3% | A− | C | 24 min | $77,522 |
Same-state neighbors only. Washington Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to New Castle. Darker towns draw more of Hickory 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 Hickory Township: questions
What is the median household income in Hickory Township?
$74,478 (±$8,142) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hickory Township?
6.2%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hickory Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hickory Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are New Castle (11%, 4 mi), New Wilmington (6%, 6 mi), Neshannock Township (6%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Hickory Township walkable?
Hickory Township is more walkable than 36% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hickory Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hickory Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hickory 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.