Photo: Nicholas · CC BY 2.0Most of Lehigh Township commutes out: there are 0.2 jobs for every working resident
There are 981 jobs in Lehigh Township for 5,342 working residents. Lehigh Township grades A− for jobs and income and D for walkability. Only 5% stay in Lehigh Township for work; outside it, Allentown is the main destination (10%, 12 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What the numbers say about work in Lehigh Township
How Lehigh Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Lehigh Township is better than 75% of U.S. towns, #384 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. The poverty rate holds Lehigh Township’s grade up (4.2%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (4.5%, 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, Lehigh Township could be anywhere from B− to A.
The workday shuffle in and out of Lehigh Township
On a workday 5,094 residents head out to work, 248 work right here, and 733 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,600 people are in Lehigh Township on a workday afternoon, 40% 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 2024, primary jobs.
The towns that employ Lehigh Township’s residents
Where Lehigh Township clocks in
10% of workers
7% 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.
Lehigh Township makes things: 30% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lehigh Township, 2014 → 2024: 907 → 981. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Lehigh Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Lehigh Township’s commute takes about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lehigh Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,475 commuters (the 14% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Lehigh Township
About 17% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Lehigh Township is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lehigh Township is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns, #961 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Both inputs place Lehigh Township 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 5,196 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 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 42% 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). 4.1% of Lehigh Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lehigh Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 8,000 to 15,000, Lehigh Township ranks 910th of 2,507 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Ladue MO | 8,934 | $250K | 1.1% | 1.7% | 5% | A+ |
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| 24 | Lower Moreland Township PA | 14,116 | $154K | 2.6% | 2.0% | 6% | A+ |
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| 41 | Bethel Township PA | 9,774 | $177K | 1.8% | 2.3% | 2% | A+ |
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| 43 | Skippack Township PA | 14,502 | $148K | 2.5% | 2.4% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 908 | Hillside IL | 8,140 | $72K | 6.6% | 4.1% | 4% | A− |
| 909 | Harahan LA | 8,916 | $80K | 7.5% | 3.8% | 6% | A− |
| 910 | Lehigh Township PA | 10,936 | $90K | 4.2% | 4.5% | 5% | A− |
| 911 | Wolfforth TX | 8,746 | $106K | 5.9% | 5.2% | 7% | B+ |
| 912 | Upper Hanover Township PA | 8,741 | $112K | 5.0% | 6.1% | 6% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,507 | Roma TX | 11,543 | $25K | 37.1% | 12.4% | 19% | 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 Lehigh Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
How Lehigh Township compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lehigh Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lehigh Township | – | A− | D | 29 min | $89,741 |
| North Whitehall Township | under 3% | A− | B+ | 29 min | $110,361 |
| Laurys Station | under 3% | — | — | 37 min | — |
| Washington Township | under 3% | A | C− | 30 min | $86,837 |
| Walnutport | under 3% | B | B+ | 28 min | $75,588 |
| Lower Towamensing Township | under 3% | B | C+ | 35 min | $68,789 |
| Slatington | under 3% | C | A | 27 min | $49,625 |
| Allen Township | under 3% | A+ | C− | 27 min | $102,865 |
| Moore Township | under 3% | A | D | 27 min | $102,789 |
| East Penn Township | under 3% | C+ | D | 41 min | $70,294 |
Same-state neighbors only. Laurys Station: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Lehigh 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 2024, 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 Lehigh Township: questions
What is the median household income in Lehigh Township?
$89,741 (±$12,847) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lehigh Township?
4.2%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lehigh Township?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lehigh Township work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Allentown (10%, 12 mi), Bethlehem (7%, 13 mi), Salisbury Township (4%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Lehigh Township walkable?
Lehigh Township is more walkable than 13% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 5.2 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lehigh Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lehigh Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lehigh Township
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.