Marion Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Marion Township has 83 jobs, and 483 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Marion Township is better than 39% of U.S. towns (C+); for walkability it is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (C). Hardly any work in Marion Township itself; outside it, College Township draws the most (22%, 15 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Marion Township apart
Jobs & income in Marion Township: the grade in detail
The poverty rate holds Marion Township’s grade up (8.3%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down.
Unemployment (1.5%) is left out: Marion 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, Marion Township could be anywhere from D to A−.
Who works in Marion Township, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 481 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 81 people come in from elsewhere.
About 790 people are in Marion Township on a workday afternoon, 34% 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.
Where Marion Township goes to work
Where Marion Township clocks in
22% of workers
7% of workers
7% 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.
A place that makes things: 64% of Marion Township’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Marion Township, 2014 → 2024: 42 → 83. 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 Marion Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Each way, about 28 minutes from Marion Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Marion Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 639 commuters (the 9% 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 many miles Marion Township commutes
About 20% 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.
Driving is how Marion Township gets around
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 3.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 699 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). 10.5% of Marion Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Marion Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Marion Township next to U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600: 1,956th of 4,312 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% | 2% | 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% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,954 | Pine Island TX | 1,271 | $55K | 12.9% | 5.4% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,955 | Litchfield Township MI | 1,030 | $59K | 6.1% | 3.7% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,956 | Marion Township PA | 1,193 | $67K | 8.3% | 1.5% | <1% | C+ |
| 1,957 | Silver Lake Township PA | 1,498 | $87K | 14.2% | 4.4% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,958 | Red Corral CA | 1,096 | $86K | 7.8% | 6.1% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Marion Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
How Marion Township compares with the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Walker Township (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Marion Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marion Township | – | C+ | C | 28 min | $67,405 |
| Walker Township | 6% | C+ | D | 27 min | $88,866 |
| Howard Township | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| Liberty Township | under 2% | B | D | 37 min | $75,766 |
| Boggs Township | 2% | B− | C | 23 min | $67,500 |
| Mingoville | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
| Porter Township | under 2% | C+ | B | 24 min | $73,100 |
Same-state neighbors only. Howard Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Mingoville: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Marion 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 Marion Township: questions
What is the median household income in Marion Township?
$67,405 (±$37,711) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Marion Township?
8.3%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Marion Township?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Marion Township work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are College Township (22%, 15 mi), Ferguson Township (7%, 23 mi), State College (7%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Marion Township walkable?
Marion Township is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 3.2 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Marion Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Marion Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Marion 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.