Photo: Bravo27835 · CC BY-SA 3.0Lehigh Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Measured by household income, Lehigh Township is behind 81% of U.S. towns. There are 153 jobs in Lehigh Township; 823 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Lehigh Township C−; getting around on foot earns it C+.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Lehigh Township: the gist
What’s behind Lehigh Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Lehigh Township is better than 21% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Lehigh Township’s grade up (ahead of 39% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($55,536, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (12.4%) is left out: Lehigh 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, Lehigh Township could be anywhere from D to B−.
Who works in Lehigh Township, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 784 residents head out to work, 39 work right here, and 114 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Lehigh Township on a workday afternoon, 36% 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.
8% of working residents work in Scranton
Where Lehigh Township clocks in
8% 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.
A place that makes things: 30% of Lehigh Township’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lehigh Township, 2013 → 2023: 188 → 153. 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 Lehigh Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 24 minutes each way for Lehigh Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 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 633 commuters (the 13% 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 25% 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.
Getting around Lehigh Township: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lehigh Township is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 6.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 731 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). 6.5% of Lehigh Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Lehigh Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Lehigh Township is 4,011th 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,009 | Charlotte NY | 1,543 | $61K | 11.7% | 5.4% | 2% | C− |
| 4,010 | Parish NY | 2,400 | $68K | 15.3% | 8.7% | 11% | C− |
| 4,011 | Lehigh Township PA | 1,885 | $56K | 14.4% | 12.4% | 5% | C− |
| 4,012 | Greenup IL | 1,330 | $51K | 9.2% | 3.3% | 23% | C− |
| 4,013 | Davenport WA | 1,818 | $77K | 13.9% | 7.1% | 21% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Lehigh Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Next door to Lehigh Township
The biggest share goes to Coolbaugh Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lehigh Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lehigh Township | – | C− | C+ | 24 min | $55,536 |
| Clifton Township | under 2% | C | C− | 23 min | $56,705 |
| Big Bass Lake | under 2% | — | — | 18 min | — |
| Coolbaugh Township | 3% | C− | B | 39 min | $82,615 |
| Dreher Township | under 2% | D | B | 25 min | $51,648 |
| Sterling Township | under 2% | C+ | C+ | 25 min | $70,417 |
Same-state neighbors only. Big Bass Lake: 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 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 Lehigh Township: questions
What is the median household income in Lehigh Township?
$55,536 (±$13,466) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lehigh Township?
14.4%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lehigh Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lehigh Township work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Scranton (8%, 17 mi), Pocono Township (4%, 14 mi), Covington Township (4%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lehigh Township walkable?
Lehigh Township is more walkable than 43% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lehigh Township without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 6% 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), 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.