Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Johnsonburg has higher unemployment (7.0%) than 82% of U.S. towns
About one in seven stay in Johnsonburg for work; outside it, St. Marys is the main destination (28%, 9 miles). Jobs and income earn Johnsonburg C−; getting around on foot earns it B+. Working from home is the commute for 5% of workers; Pennsylvania has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Johnsonburg at work: what stands out
Johnsonburg makes and builds things
68% of the jobs based in Johnsonburg are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Johnsonburg residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 46%. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Johnsonburg pay better than its residents’ jobs
78% of the jobs based in Johnsonburg pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 56% of the jobs Johnsonburg residents hold. 77% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Johnsonburg. The jobs ↓
Most Johnsonburg residents work close to home
63% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home. How far ↓
Commutes from Johnsonburg are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 26 across Pennsylvania. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Pennsylvania worker. Time on the road ↓
28% of Johnsonburg works in St. Marys
282 working residents, 28%, have their main job in St. Marys, 8.6 miles away. That’s more than work in Johnsonburg itself. The commute map ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Income, poverty and work: Johnsonburg’s grade explained
The poverty rate holds Johnsonburg’s grade up (12.3%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Johnsonburg could be anywhere from D to B−.
Making and building: 68% of jobs based in Johnsonburg
690 jobs are based in Johnsonburg.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Johnsonburg, 2013 → 2023: 813 → 690. 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 Johnsonburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Johnsonburg
About 18% 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.
About 21 minutes each way for Johnsonburg’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Johnsonburg workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,076 commuters (the 5% 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 places Johnsonburg commutes to
Where Johnsonburg clocks in
28% of workers
12% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Johnsonburg
On a workday 861 residents head out to work, 156 work right here, and 534 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,000 people are in Johnsonburg on a workday afternoon, 14% fewer than live here.
0.68 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
In Johnsonburg, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Johnsonburg is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.8% 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 1,135 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 Johnsonburg households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Johnsonburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Johnsonburg is 4,184th among 5,328 U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,100
| # | 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 27 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 63 | Churchill PA | 3,014 | $107K | 1.9% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,182 | Liberty NC | 2,739 | $40K | 16.6% | 7.5% | 6% | C− |
| 4,183 | Forest City PA | 1,741 | $57K | 16.9% | 7.4% | 9% | C− |
| 4,184 | Johnsonburg PA | 2,291 | $61K | 12.3% | 7.0% | 15% | C− |
| 4,185 | Indian Creek Township IL | 2,055 | $59K | 10.4% | 6.8% | 11% | C− |
| 4,186 | Richmondville NY | 2,460 | $51K | 12.2% | 4.9% | 5% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,328 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Johnsonburg, 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 Johnsonburg: questions
What is the median household income in Johnsonburg?
$61,484 (±$12,737) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Johnsonburg?
12.3%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Johnsonburg?
21 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 5% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Johnsonburg work?
15% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are St. Marys (28%, 9 mi), Ridgway Township (12%, 4 mi), Ridgway (5%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Johnsonburg walkable?
Johnsonburg is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.0 out of 20, and 6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Johnsonburg without a car?
0% 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 Johnsonburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Johnsonburg
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.