Photo: Jakec · CC BY-SA 4.0Lower Augusta Township has 0.2 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Employers in Lower Augusta Township report 99 jobs for 421 working residents. Jobs and income earn Lower Augusta Township B−; getting around on foot earns it C−. Hardly any work in Lower Augusta Township itself; outside it, Mahoning Township draws the most (9%, 17 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Lower Augusta Township stands out on work
The figures behind Lower Augusta Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Lower Augusta Township is better than 50% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Lower Augusta Township’s grade up (5.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 26% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.2%) is left out: Lower Augusta Township’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, Lower Augusta Township could be anywhere from C− to B+.
The daily flow of workers through Lower Augusta Township
On a workday 420 residents head out to work, 1 work right here, and 98 people come in from elsewhere.
About 710 people are in Lower Augusta Township on a workday afternoon, 31% 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.
Where the trip to work from Lower Augusta Township ends
Where Lower Augusta Township clocks in
9% of workers
8% 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.
Goods jobs make up 32% of work in Lower Augusta Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Lower Augusta Township, 2013 → 2023: 77 → 99. 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 Lower Augusta Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 28 minutes in Lower Augusta Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Lower Augusta Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 534 commuters (the 10% 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.
How far Lower Augusta Township goes to work
About 18% 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.
Lower Augusta Township is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Lower Augusta Township is more walkable than 22% 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 3.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 595 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). 3.1% of Lower Augusta Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Lower Augusta Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Lower Augusta Township is 1,024th among 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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+ |
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| 7 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,022 | Garrett Township IL | 1,328 | $70K | 5.0% | 0.6% | 4% | B− |
| 1,023 | Madison Township IN | 1,104 | $89K | 7.5% | 0.0% | 1% | B− |
| 1,024 | Lower Augusta Township PA | 1,030 | $75K | 5.9% | 3.2% | <1% | B− |
| 1,025 | Homer IL | 1,050 | $86K | 11.0% | 2.1% | 3% | B− |
| 1,026 | Bolivar Township IN | 1,183 | $75K | 8.9% | 3.3% | 4% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Lower Augusta Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Next door is work for 17% of Lower Augusta Township
The biggest share goes to Upper Augusta Township (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Lower Augusta Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower Augusta Township | – | B− | C− | 28 min | $74,688 |
| Penn Township | under 3% | B− | C | 17 min | $61,479 |
| Selinsgrove | 2% | B+ | A+ | 14 min | $65,650 |
| Upper Augusta Township | 7% | B+ | C+ | 25 min | $68,750 |
| Little Mahanoy Township | under 3% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Union Township | under 3% | C | B | 28 min | $76,339 |
| Rockefeller Township | 4% | B+ | C− | 23 min | $90,903 |
| Monroe Township | 4% | A− | B− | 27 min | $90,417 |
| Jackson Township | under 3% | — | — | 25 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Little Mahanoy Township and Jackson Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Lower Augusta 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 Lower Augusta Township: questions
What is the median household income in Lower Augusta Township?
$74,688 (±$22,188) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Lower Augusta Township?
5.9%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Lower Augusta Township?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Lower Augusta Township work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mahoning Township (9%, 17 mi), Sunbury (8%, 6 mi), Upper Augusta Township (7%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Lower Augusta Township walkable?
Lower Augusta Township is more walkable than 22% 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 Lower Augusta Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Lower Augusta Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Lower Augusta 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.