Photo: Geowizerd · CC BY-SA 3.0A job hub: Loretto has 1.9 jobs per working resident, and 653 people come in to work
6% of workers work from home (Pennsylvania 16%). There are 668 jobs in Loretto; 352 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Loretto is better than 16% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (B).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs and commuting in Loretto: the gist
Loretto is where the jobs are
Loretto has 668 jobs, 1.9 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Commutes from Loretto are quick
The average trip to work takes 13 minutes, against 26 across Pennsylvania. That’s about 100 hours a year less on the road than the typical Pennsylvania worker. Time on the road ↓
A big share show a job far from home
34% 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 352 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Loretto gets the Jobs & income grade it does
Job access by car holds Loretto’s grade up (ahead of 42% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (36.4%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (8.4%) is left out: Loretto’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Loretto could be anywhere from D to C.
Who commutes out of Loretto, and who commutes in
On a workday 337 residents head out to work and 15 work right here.
About 1,500 people are in Loretto on a workday afternoon, 28% more 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.
The daily trip from Loretto: about 13 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Loretto workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 303 commuters (the 6% 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 Loretto
About 34% 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.
Where Loretto’s workforce comes from
Where Loretto clocks in
9% of workers
5% 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.
Mostly health care, schools and offices in Loretto
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Loretto, 2013 → 2023: 102 → 668. 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 Loretto’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Driving is how Loretto gets around
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 32.3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 4.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 323 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). 13.7% of Loretto households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Loretto’s commuters take a bus or train.
Loretto is 2,747th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,745 | Mount Carroll IL | 1,432 | $59K | 14.1% | 3.2% | 14% | C− |
| 2,746 | Williamsburg PA | 1,196 | $51K | 13.9% | 4.3% | 13% | C− |
| 2,747 | Loretto PA | 1,135 | $64K | 36.4% | 8.4% | 4% | C− |
| 2,748 | Leonidas Township MI | 1,158 | $71K | 23.0% | 3.5% | 1% | C− |
| 2,749 | Coventry NY | 1,484 | $63K | 15.0% | 3.6% | 1% | 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 Loretto, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
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 Loretto: questions
What is the median household income in Loretto?
$63,929 (±$14,510) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Loretto?
36.4%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Loretto?
13 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Loretto work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Altoona (9%, 12 mi), Cambria Township (5%, 6 mi), Pittsburgh (4%, 71 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Loretto walkable?
Loretto is more walkable than 58% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 4.3 out of 20, and 32% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Loretto without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 14% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Loretto, from the people who make the trip.
More of Loretto
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.