Photo: Jakec · CC BY-SA 4.0Hollenback Township has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Employers in Hollenback Township report 39 jobs, and 489 of its residents work somewhere. Hollenback Township grades A− for jobs and income and D− for walkability. For 6% of workers, the job is at home (Pennsylvania 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Hollenback Township, in brief
Jobs & income in Hollenback Township: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Hollenback Township is better than 75% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Hollenback Township’s grade up (4.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 47% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (13.0%) is left out: Hollenback 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, Hollenback Township could be anywhere from B to A−.
Who works in Hollenback Township, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 485 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 35 people come in from elsewhere.
About 730 people are in Hollenback Township on a workday afternoon, 38% 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.
12% of working residents work in Berwick
Where Hollenback Township clocks in
12% of workers
5% 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.
Goods, not services: 44% of the jobs in Hollenback Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hollenback Township, 2013 → 2023: 25 → 39. 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 Hollenback Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Hollenback Township spends getting to work: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hollenback Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 489 commuters (the 6% 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 far Hollenback Township’s workers travel
About 16% 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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Driving is how Hollenback Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Hollenback Township is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Hollenback Township near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 522 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). 1.3% of Hollenback Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Hollenback Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Hollenback Township places 552nd of 4,312 on jobs and income 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% | 1% | 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% | 16% | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 550 | Ogden Township IL | 1,506 | $97K | 5.5% | 4.2% | 5% | A− |
| 551 | Palmyra Township IN | 1,473 | $99K | 2.1% | 0.0% | 2% | A− |
| 552 | Hollenback Township PA | 1,184 | $89K | 4.1% | 13.0% | 1% | A− |
| 553 | Leon WI | 1,151 | $89K | 2.2% | 2.0% | 1% | A− |
| 554 | Elwood UT | 1,375 | $102K | 3.8% | 6.5% | 1% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Hollenback Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Next door to Hollenback Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Hollenback Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hollenback Township | – | A− | D− | 30 min | $88,903 |
| Nescopeck Township | under 2% | B+ | C+ | 31 min | $85,789 |
| Sugarloaf Township | under 2% | A− | B+ | 27 min | $102,955 |
| Dorrance Township | under 2% | A | C− | 38 min | $98,916 |
| Conyngham Township | under 2% | C | C+ | 34 min | $60,265 |
| Butler Township | under 2% | B+ | C | 25 min | $108,514 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Hollenback 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 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 Hollenback Township: questions
What is the median household income in Hollenback Township?
$88,903 (±$6,556) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hollenback Township?
4.1%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hollenback Township?
30 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hollenback Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Berwick (12%, 9 mi), Wilkes-Barre (5%, 16 mi), Salem Township (5%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Hollenback Township walkable?
Hollenback Township is more walkable than 2% of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.4 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Hollenback Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hollenback Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hollenback Township
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.