Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Irwin Township has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
6% of workers work from home (Pennsylvania 16%). 162 jobs are based in Irwin Township, and 441 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Irwin Township is better than 51% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (D).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Irwin Township and work: the main findings
How Irwin Township earns its Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Irwin Township’s grade up (6.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 38% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (6.7%) is left out: Irwin 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, Irwin Township could be anywhere from C to B+.
How long Irwin Township spends getting to work: about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Irwin Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 620 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.
Irwin Township by day and by night
On a workday 431 residents head out to work, 10 work right here, and 152 people come in from elsewhere.
About 950 people are in Irwin Township on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
8% of working residents work in Grove City
Where Irwin Township clocks in
8% of workers
7% 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.
Irwin Township works in goods: 30% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Irwin Township, 2013 → 2023: 117 → 162. 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 Irwin Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Irwin Township
About 23% 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 Irwin Township gets around
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: hardly any 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 657 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). 3.9% of Irwin Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Irwin Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 4,866 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700, Irwin Township comes 1,601st on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,599 | Mottville Township MI | 1,436 | $70K | 10.1% | 6.0% | 4% | B− |
| 1,600 | Cherry Valley NY | 1,223 | $93K | 5.7% | 5.2% | 10% | B− |
| 1,601 | Irwin Township PA | 1,228 | $69K | 6.2% | 6.7% | 2% | B− |
| 1,602 | West Bethlehem Township PA | 1,284 | $65K | 4.4% | 1.6% | 6% | B− |
| 1,603 | Milford Township PA | 1,606 | $85K | 7.8% | 4.2% | 8% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Irwin Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Irwin Township and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Barkeyville (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Irwin Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irwin Township | – | B− | D | 31 min | $69,231 |
| Barkeyville | 3% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Marion Township | under 3% | C+ | D | 41 min | $74,514 |
| Clinton Township | 3% | — | — | 36 min | — |
| Mineral Township | under 3% | — | — | 37 min | — |
| Victory Township | under 3% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Mercer Township | under 3% | C | C+ | 20 min | $71,250 |
Same-state neighbors only. Barkeyville, Clinton Township, Mineral Township and Victory Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Irwin 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 Irwin Township: questions
What is the median household income in Irwin Township?
$69,231 (±$6,778) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Irwin Township?
6.2%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Irwin Township?
31 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Irwin Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Grove City (8%, 9 mi), Pine Township (7%, 7 mi), Franklin (5%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Irwin Township walkable?
Irwin Township is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Irwin Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Irwin Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Irwin 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.