With 0.2 jobs for every working resident, most of Jacobus works elsewhere
Jacobus has 165 jobs; 855 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Jacobus B+; getting around on foot earns it B. Measured by household income, Jacobus is ahead of 86% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Jacobus apart
Jacobus’ Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Jacobus is better than 74% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Jacobus’ grade up (2.1%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (7.2%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Jacobus could be anywhere from B to A+.
How a workday changes Jacobus
On a workday 855 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 165 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Jacobus 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.
10% of working residents work in York Township
Where Jacobus clocks in
10% of workers
9% 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 place that makes things: 36% of Jacobus’ jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Jacobus, 2013 → 2023: 216 → 165. 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 Jacobus’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Jacobus spends getting to work: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Jacobus workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,138 commuters (the 9% 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.
Half of Jacobus commutes less than 12 miles
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.
Most of Jacobus commutes by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Jacobus is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 7.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,256 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). 0.4% of Jacobus households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Jacobus’ commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Jacobus is 954th among 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500
| # | 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% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 36 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 952 | Catlin IL | 1,912 | $72K | 3.9% | 1.2% | 4% | B+ |
| 953 | Newburgh Heights OH | 1,801 | $65K | 9.5% | 2.0% | <1% | B+ |
| 954 | Jacobus PA | 1,838 | $114K | 2.1% | 7.2% | 0% | B+ |
| 955 | Franconia Township MN | 1,757 | $117K | 10.7% | 5.2% | 1% | B+ |
| 956 | Sandyston Township NJ | 2,032 | $104K | 2.9% | 4.3% | 6% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Jacobus, 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 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 Jacobus: questions
What is the median household income in Jacobus?
$114,034 (±$16,587) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Jacobus?
2.1%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Jacobus?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Jacobus work?
0% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are York Township (10%, 3 mi), York (9%, 6 mi), Springettsbury Township (5%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Jacobus walkable?
Jacobus is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Jacobus without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and <1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Jacobus, from the people who make the trip.
More of Jacobus
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.