Photo: Smallbones · CC BY-SA 3.0Honey Brook has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Only 4% work in Honey Brook itself; outside it, Honey Brook Township draws the most (10%, 1 miles). Employers in Honey Brook report 199 jobs; 1,027 of its residents have a job. Honey Brook grades A for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Honey Brook
What’s behind Honey Brook’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Honey Brook is better than 93% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input (2.5%, U.S. 12.5%); household income ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns ($94,375, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Honey Brook could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
Honey Brook by day and by night
On a workday 984 residents head out to work, 43 work right here, and 156 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Honey Brook on a workday afternoon, 44% 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.
Where the trip to work from Honey Brook ends
Where Honey Brook clocks in
10% 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.
Jobs in Honey Brook: what the 199 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Honey Brook, 2014 → 2024: 257 → 199. 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 Honey Brook’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 29 minutes in Honey Brook
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Honey Brook workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 831 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 Honey Brook to work
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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Honey Brook
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Honey Brook is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 3.0% 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 954 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of 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). 4.4% of Honey Brook households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Honey Brook’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Honey Brook is 254th of 5,921 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,600
| # | 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 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 7% | A+ |
| 36 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 252 | Hidden Hills CA | 1,675 | $250K | 9.5% | 2.5% | <1% | A |
| 253 | Lavallette NJ | 1,869 | $133K | 4.3% | 2.6% | 12% | A |
| 254 | Honey Brook PA | 1,891 | $94K | 2.5% | 2.1% | 4% | A |
| 255 | Belvedere CA | 2,066 | $250K | 5.9% | 2.2% | 4% | A |
| 256 | Lauderdale MN | 2,328 | $79K | 7.3% | 9.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,921 | 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 Honey Brook, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
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 Honey Brook: questions
What is the median household income in Honey Brook?
$94,375 (±$25,772) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Honey Brook?
2.5%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Honey Brook?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Honey Brook work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Honey Brook Township (10%, 1 mi), West Goshen Township (5%, 19 mi), Philadelphia (5%, 42 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Honey Brook walkable?
Honey Brook is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 9.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Honey Brook without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Honey Brook, from the people who make the trip.
More of Honey Brook
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.