Photo: VitaleBaby (Uploads) · Public domainKane’s household incomes are lower than in 85% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 9.7% of residents, next to 11.7% across Pennsylvania. Kane grades C− for jobs and income and A for walkability. About one in four work in Kane; the top destination outside it is Wetmore Township (6%, 1 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Kane and work: the main findings
Why Kane gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Kane is better than 17% of U.S. towns, #972 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. The poverty rate holds Kane’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 9% of U.S. towns).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Kane could be anywhere from D to B−.
Kane by day and by night
On a workday 1,007 residents head out to work, 414 work right here, and 808 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.86 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Kane’s residents
Where Kane clocks in
6% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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 Kane: what the 1,222 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kane, 2013 → 2023: 1,243 → 1,222. 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 Kane’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Kane spends getting to work: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kane workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,317 commuters (the 8% 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.
Miles to work from Kane
About 21% 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.
Good to walk, short on transit: Kane
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Kane is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns, #165 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Both inputs place Kane 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 1,436 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). 14.4% of Kane households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Kane’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Kane is 3,797th among 4,535 U.S. towns of 2,400 to 4,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Wallace Township PA | 3,759 | $183K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 68 | Pocopson Township PA | 4,480 | $230K | 1.3% | 2.2% | 3% | A+ |
| 69 | West Pikeland Township PA | 4,045 | $226K | 0.9% | 2.8% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,795 | Rush City MN | 3,300 | $59K | 13.3% | 6.7% | 12% | C− |
| 3,796 | Dannemora NY | 2,562 | $62K | 13.8% | 9.5% | <1% | C− |
| 3,797 | Kane PA | 3,463 | $52K | 9.7% | 5.7% | 29% | C− |
| 3,798 | Lake Shastina CA | 3,001 | $81K | 12.2% | 9.5% | 3% | C− |
| 3,799 | Quitman GA | 4,032 | $19K | 42.6% | 2.9% | 16% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,535 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Kane, 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 Kane: questions
What is the median household income in Kane?
$52,353 (±$5,173) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kane?
9.7%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kane?
23 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kane work?
29% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wetmore Township (6%, 1 mi), St. Marys (5%, 21 mi), Warren (4%, 21 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Kane walkable?
Kane is more walkable than 92% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 9.9 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Kane without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kane, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kane
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.