Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Macungie has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.3 for each
563 jobs are based in Macungie for 1,643 working residents. Macungie grades B for jobs and income and A− for walkability. Only 2% work in Macungie itself; outside it, Upper Macungie Township draws the most (11%, 5 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Macungie, in brief
What’s behind Macungie’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Macungie is better than 59% of U.S. towns, #596 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Job access by car holds Macungie’s grade up (ahead of 83% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (16.9%, U.S. 12.5%). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Macungie could be anywhere from C to A+.
Macungie on a workday afternoon
On a workday 1,604 residents head out to work, 39 work right here, and 524 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,300 people are in Macungie on a workday afternoon, 32% 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 people from Macungie work
Where Macungie clocks in
11% of workers
10% 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.
Factories, building and farms: 31% of the jobs in Macungie
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Macungie, 2013 → 2023: 610 → 563. 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 Macungie’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 23 minutes each way for Macungie’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Macungie workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,598 commuters (the 11% 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 Macungie’s workers travel
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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Macungie
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Macungie is more walkable than 83% of U.S. towns, #288 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Both inputs place Macungie near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,796 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). 3.7% of Macungie households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Macungie’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Macungie is 1,748th among 4,402 U.S. towns of 2,400 to 4,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 21 | Wallace Township PA | 3,759 | $183K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 67 | Pocopson Township PA | 4,480 | $230K | 1.3% | 2.2% | 3% | A+ |
| 68 | West Pikeland Township PA | 4,045 | $226K | 0.9% | 2.8% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,746 | Menallen Township PA | 3,802 | $86K | 6.9% | 4.0% | 11% | B |
| 1,747 | Cambridge VT | 3,666 | $72K | 6.7% | 1.6% | 23% | B |
| 1,748 | Macungie PA | 3,395 | $76K | 16.9% | 3.1% | 2% | B |
| 1,749 | Charleston Township PA | 3,471 | $73K | 6.8% | 0.0% | 9% | B |
| 1,750 | Granite Hills CA | 3,795 | $156K | 12.3% | 12.4% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,402 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 18% | 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 Macungie, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Macungie and its neighbors: 10% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Macungie workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macungie | – | B | A− | 23 min | $75,677 |
| Lower Macungie Township | 10% | A+ | B | 27 min | $125,230 |
| Upper Milford Township | under 3% | A | B | 24 min | $110,139 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Lower Macungie Township. Darker towns draw more of Macungie’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 Macungie: questions
What is the median household income in Macungie?
$75,677 (±$21,115) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Macungie?
16.9%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Macungie?
23 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Macungie work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Upper Macungie Township (11%, 5 mi), Lower Macungie Township (10%, 1 mi), Allentown (8%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Macungie walkable?
Macungie is more walkable than 83% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 10.2 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Macungie without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Macungie, from the people who make the trip.
More of Macungie
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.