Photo: Jared Kofsky/PlaceNJ.com · CC BY-SA 4.0Where Mayfield earns its living
Only 6% stay in Mayfield for work; outside it, Scranton is the main destination (14%, 12 miles). Mayfield grades B for jobs and income and C+ for walkability. At 26 minutes each way, commutes from Mayfield run about the Pennsylvania average.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Mayfield, in a few figures
Why Mayfield gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Mayfield is better than 55% of U.S. towns. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Mayfield’s grade. It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mayfield could be anywhere from C− to A.
62% of the jobs in Mayfield make or build things
638 jobs are based in Mayfield.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mayfield, 2013 → 2023: 536 → 638. 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 Mayfield’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Mayfield
On a workday 757 residents head out to work, 47 work right here, and 591 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.79 per resident).
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 places Mayfield commutes to
Where Mayfield clocks in
14% 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.
From Mayfield, about 26 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mayfield workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 815 commuters (the 17% 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.
Miles to work from Mayfield
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.
Most trips from Mayfield start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mayfield is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 5.4.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 979 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). 5.7% of Mayfield households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Mayfield’s commuters take a bus or train.
Mayfield is 2,009th of 6,085 U.S. towns of 1,200 to 2,400 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 38 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,007 | Richmond WI | 1,883 | $75K | 7.7% | 4.2% | 1% | B |
| 2,008 | Keenesburg CO | 2,107 | $84K | 10.0% | 2.1% | 4% | B |
| 2,009 | Mayfield PA | 1,749 | $79K | 10.3% | 4.0% | 6% | B |
| 2,010 | Hope Township MI | 1,383 | $101K | 6.7% | 2.7% | 1% | B |
| 2,011 | Cass Township OH | 1,607 | $67K | 3.9% | 1.1% | 3% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 6,085 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Mayfield, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
The towns around Mayfield
The biggest share goes to Archbald (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mayfield workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayfield | – | B | C+ | 26 min | $78,750 |
| Jermyn | under 3% | B | B− | 19 min | $62,917 |
| Carbondale Township | 2% | B | C− | 25 min | $76,111 |
| Archbald | 4% | B+ | B | 22 min | $71,936 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Mayfield’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 Mayfield: questions
What is the median household income in Mayfield?
$78,750 (±$23,629) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mayfield?
10.3%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mayfield?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 17% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mayfield work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Scranton (14%, 12 mi), Carbondale (6%, 3 mi), Dunmore (5%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mayfield walkable?
Mayfield is more walkable than 40% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.4 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mayfield without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mayfield, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mayfield
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.