Photo: User:Dincher · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Lewis Township works elsewhere
Employers in Lewis Township report 88 jobs, against 618 working residents. The two grades for Lewis Township are C for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. 8% of workers work from home (Pennsylvania 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Lewis Township apart
The four measures behind Lewis Township’s grade
On income, poverty and job access, Lewis Township is better than 26% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Lewis Township’s grade up (10.4%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 21% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (2.6%) is left out: Lewis 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, Lewis Township could be anywhere from D to B−.
The workday shuffle in and out of Lewis Township
On a workday 613 residents head out to work, 5 work right here, and 83 people come in from elsewhere.
About 930 people are in Lewis 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 2024, primary jobs.
13% of working residents work in Mifflinburg
Where Lewis Township clocks in
13% of workers
7% of workers
5% 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.
Lewis Township makes things: 43% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lewis Township, 2014 → 2024: 85 → 88. 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 Lewis Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 29 minutes each way, longer than most of Pennsylvania
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lewis Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 561 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Lewis Township
About 19% 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.
Lewis Township is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lewis Township is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 4.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 609 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). 13.3% of Lewis Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lewis Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000, Lewis Township ranks 3,938th of 6,308 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
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| 13 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,936 | Essex Township MI | 1,847 | $71K | 16.6% | 4.5% | 6% | C |
| 3,937 | Lower Mifflin Township PA | 1,795 | $61K | 16.7% | 4.4% | 1% | C |
| 3,938 | Lewis Township PA | 1,461 | $64K | 10.4% | 2.6% | 1% | C |
| 3,939 | Rockdale IL | 1,969 | $59K | 25.8% | 8.7% | 3% | C |
| 3,940 | Pelahatchie MS | 1,324 | $56K | 15.0% | 4.0% | 7% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Lewis Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Lewis Township and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to West Buffalo Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lewis Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lewis Township | – | C | C+ | 29 min | $63,590 |
| West Buffalo Township | 3% | B | B | 21 min | $79,095 |
| Hartley Township | under 2% | C− | C+ | 26 min | $67,356 |
| Greene Township | under 2% | C | C+ | 28 min | $73,517 |
| Washington Township | under 2% | C | C | 31 min | $76,538 |
| Hartleton | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Limestone Township | 2% | B− | B | 20 min | $88,281 |
Same-state neighbors only. Hartleton: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Lewis 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 Lewis Township: questions
What is the median household income in Lewis Township?
$63,590 (±$3,742) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lewis Township?
10.4%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lewis Township?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lewis Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mifflinburg (13%, 5 mi), Kelly Township (7%, 11 mi), Milton (5%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Lewis Township walkable?
Lewis Township is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Lewis Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lewis Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lewis 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.