Colwell Cut Viaduct · Photo: PennDOT · Public domainWith 0.1 jobs for every working resident, most of Mahoning Township works elsewhere
Measured by household income, Mahoning Township is behind 84% of U.S. towns. There are 63 jobs in Mahoning Township; 483 of its residents have a job. Jobs and income earn Mahoning Township D; getting around on foot earns it B−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Mahoning Township apart
Where Mahoning Township’s Jobs & income grade comes from
On income, poverty and job access, Mahoning Township is better than 8% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Mahoning Township’s grade up (14.6%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 9% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (3.0%) is left out: Mahoning 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, Mahoning Township could be anywhere from D− to B−.
Who works in Mahoning Township, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 475 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 55 people come in from elsewhere.
About 940 people are in Mahoning 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.
6% of working residents work in Monroe Township
Where Mahoning Township clocks in
6% of workers
4% of workers
3% 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.
What Mahoning Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mahoning Township, 2013 → 2023: 67 → 63. 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 Mahoning Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 22 minutes in Mahoning Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mahoning Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 483 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.
How far it is to work from Mahoning Township
About 22% 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.
Most trips from Mahoning Township start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mahoning Township is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 524 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). 3.3% of Mahoning Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mahoning Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Mahoning Township places 4,583rd of 5,400 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,800
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,581 | Guilford ME | 1,285 | $53K | 14.9% | 3.5% | 24% | D |
| 4,582 | Morgan Township MO | 1,376 | $59K | 16.3% | 3.4% | 36% | D |
| 4,583 | Mahoning Township PA | 1,364 | $53K | 14.6% | 3.0% | 2% | D |
| 4,584 | Chrisman IL | 1,263 | $58K | 18.0% | 7.1% | 11% | D |
| 4,585 | Moroni UT | 1,710 | $66K | 21.0% | 9.0% | 15% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Mahoning Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Around Mahoning Township: the bordering towns
The biggest share goes to New Bethlehem (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mahoning Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mahoning Township | – | D | B− | 22 min | $53,056 |
| Porter Township | under 3% | D | D | 31 min | $70,156 |
| Redbank Township | under 3% | — | — | 36 min | — |
| Madison Township | under 3% | — | — | 34 min | — |
| New Bethlehem | 3% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Boggs Township | under 3% | — | — | 31 min | — |
| South Bethlehem | 3% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Wayne Township | under 3% | C− | C− | 39 min | $63,603 |
| Pine Township | under 3% | — | — | 33 min | — |
| Redbank Township | under 3% | D | D | 27 min | $63,571 |
Same-state neighbors only. Redbank Township, Madison Township, New Bethlehem, Boggs Township, South Bethlehem and Pine Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Mahoning 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 Mahoning Township: questions
What is the median household income in Mahoning Township?
$53,056 (±$11,811) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mahoning Township?
14.6%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mahoning Township?
22 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mahoning Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Monroe Township (6%, 13 mi), Pittsburgh (4%, 49 mi), South Bethlehem (3%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mahoning Township walkable?
Mahoning Township is more walkable than 47% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mahoning 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 Mahoning Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mahoning 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.