Photo: Mtruch · CC BY-SA 3.0Jobs, income and commuting in Kidder Township, PA
Working from home is the commute for 7% of workers, next to 16% for Pennsylvania as a whole. For jobs and income Kidder Township is better than 54% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (D). About one in ten work in Kidder Township; the top destination outside it is Tobyhanna Township (5%, 8 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Kidder Township
The better-paid jobs are outside Kidder Township
58% of Kidder Township residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 27% of the jobs based in Kidder Township pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 91% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Many jobs in Kidder Township pay little
34% of the jobs based in Kidder Township pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. The jobs ↓
A big share show a job far from home
31% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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; with 559 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Kidder Township
The poverty rate holds Kidder Township’s grade up (6.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 31% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (7.3%) is left out: Kidder Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Kidder Township could be anywhere from C to A−.
Services make up most of the work in Kidder Township
739 jobs are based in Kidder Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Kidder Township, 2013 → 2023: 677 → 739. 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 Kidder Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Short hops and long hauls from Kidder Township
About 31% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Kidder Township
On a workday 509 residents head out to work, 50 work right here, and 689 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,000 people are in Kidder Township on a workday afternoon, 10% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.32 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.
Where people from Kidder Township work
Where Kidder Township clocks in
5% of workers
3% of workers
3% 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 trip from Kidder Township: about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Kidder Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 737 commuters (the 7% 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.
In Kidder Township, the car does most of the work
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 796 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). 0.8% of Kidder Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Kidder Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Kidder Township ranks: 2,007th of 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,005 | Hopedale Township IL | 1,806 | $98K | 12.2% | 9.0% | 10% | B− |
| 2,006 | Edenville Township MI | 2,495 | $71K | 11.9% | 1.0% | <1% | B− |
| 2,007 | Kidder Township PA | 1,856 | $79K | 6.4% | 7.3% | 9% | B− |
| 2,008 | Crosslake MN | 2,412 | $80K | 8.6% | 1.6% | 22% | B− |
| 2,009 | Fort Recovery OH | 1,476 | $67K | 2.7% | 1.4% | 16% | 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 Kidder Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Kidder Township and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Kidder Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kidder Township | – | B− | D | 34 min | $78,854 |
| Penn Forest Township | 2% | C | C | 42 min | $67,045 |
| Tobyhanna Township | 5% | C | C+ | 30 min | $90,064 |
| Tunkhannock Township | under 2% | C+ | C | 36 min | $69,700 |
| Bear Creek Township | under 2% | B | D− | 30 min | $88,333 |
| Foster Township | under 2% | C | D | 30 min | $68,384 |
| Buck Township | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Lehigh Township | under 2% | — | — | 29 min | — |
| East Side | under 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Dennison Township | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Towamensing Trails | under 2% | — | — | 42 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Buck Township, Lehigh Township and East Side: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Dennison Township: not graded. Towamensing Trails: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Tobyhanna Township. Darker towns draw more of Kidder 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 Kidder Township: questions
What is the median household income in Kidder Township?
$78,854 (±$23,509) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Kidder Township?
6.4%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Kidder Township?
34 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Kidder Township work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Tobyhanna Township (5%, 8 mi), Philadelphia (3%, 77 mi), Allentown (3%, 33 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Kidder Township walkable?
Kidder 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 Kidder Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Kidder Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Kidder 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.