Photo: Jakec · CC BY-SA 4.0With 0.5 jobs for every working resident, most of Lemon Township works elsewhere
Lemon Township has 253 jobs, against 500 working residents. For jobs and income Lemon Township is better than 26% of U.S. towns (C); for walkability it is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns (C−). Only 1% work in Lemon Township; the top destination outside it is Mehoopany Township (12%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What stands out about work in Lemon Township
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Lemon Township
Household income holds Lemon Township’s grade up ($80,700, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.6%) is left out: Lemon 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, Lemon Township could be anywhere from D to B−.
Lemon Township works in goods: 66% of its jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lemon Township, 2013 → 2023: 690 → 253. 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 Lemon Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Lemon Township by day and by night
On a workday 494 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 247 people come in from elsewhere.
About 870 people are in Lemon Township on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
Commuting out of Lemon Township: the destinations
Where Lemon Township clocks in
11% 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.
Getting to work from Lemon Township takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lemon Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 469 commuters (the 9% 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 distance from Lemon Township to work
About 20% 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.
Few in Lemon Township walk, bike or ride to work
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 3.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 514 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). 0.9% of Lemon Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lemon Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Lemon Township next to U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500: 2,272nd of 3,771 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,270 | Valley Mills TX | 1,293 | $52K | 12.0% | 1.9% | 4% | C |
| 2,271 | George WA | 1,024 | $55K | 6.0% | 4.5% | 3% | C |
| 2,272 | Lemon Township PA | 1,120 | $81K | 13.3% | 0.6% | 1% | C |
| 2,273 | Bratton Township PA | 1,181 | $63K | 8.5% | 0.6% | 1% | C |
| 2,274 | Annville KY | 1,063 | $56K | 7.3% | 0.9% | 8% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 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 Lemon Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
13% of Lemon Township works in a bordering town
The biggest share goes to Tunkhannock Township (11%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lemon Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lemon Township | – | C | C− | 24 min | $80,700 |
| Nicholson Township | under 2% | B− | C− | 26 min | $72,500 |
| Clinton Township | under 2% | B− | C− | 27 min | $85,729 |
| Tunkhannock Township | 11% | B− | C+ | 27 min | $83,459 |
| Washington Township | 2% | B− | D | 21 min | $99,861 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Lemon 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 Lemon Township: questions
What is the median household income in Lemon Township?
$80,700 (±$15,223) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lemon Township?
13.3%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lemon Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lemon Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mehoopany Township (12%, 10 mi), Tunkhannock Township (11%, 4 mi), Tunkhannock (4%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lemon Township walkable?
Lemon Township is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lemon 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 Lemon Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lemon 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.