Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Mead Township commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Jobs and income earn Mead Township D; getting around on foot earns it C. Employers in Mead Township report 193 jobs for 588 working residents. Household incomes here are lower than in 83% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Mead Township, in brief
Mead Township and Warren trade workers both ways
Warren is the top workplace for Mead Township residents (34%) and also where the most people who work in Mead Township come from (13% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Few Mead Township workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 16% across Pennsylvania. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Commutes from Mead Township are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 26 across Pennsylvania. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Pennsylvania worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 588 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Mead Township gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Mead Township is better than 12% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Mead Township’s grade up (13.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 14% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.4%) is left out: Mead 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, Mead Township could be anywhere from D to C.
34% of working residents work in Warren
Where Mead Township clocks in
34% of workers
9% 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.
Each way, about 21 minutes from Mead Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mead Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 601 commuters (the 3% 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 people are in Mead Township by day
On a workday 560 residents head out to work, 28 work right here, and 165 people come in from elsewhere.
About 850 people are in Mead Township 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.
In Mead Township, 58% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mead Township, 2013 → 2023: 150 → 193. 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 Mead Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Mead Township
About 27% 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.
Mead Township is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mead Township is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 4.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 617 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). 3.8% of Mead Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Mead Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Mead Township next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700: 3,849th of 4,866 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,847 | East Conemaugh PA | 1,034 | $43K | 26.6% | 5.3% | 4% | D |
| 3,848 | Ferris Township MI | 1,390 | $59K | 13.2% | 5.2% | 3% | D |
| 3,849 | Mead Township PA | 1,248 | $54K | 13.1% | 1.4% | 5% | D |
| 3,850 | Comer GA | 1,631 | $53K | 23.3% | 3.9% | 5% | D |
| 3,851 | Duson LA | 1,357 | $25K | 39.3% | 10.6% | <1% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Mead Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Mead Township and its neighbors: 38% work next door
The biggest share goes to Warren (34%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mead Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mead Township | – | D | C | 21 min | $54,076 |
| Glade Township | 2% | C | C | 19 min | $73,388 |
| Elk Township | under 2% | — | — | 28 min | — |
| Sheffield Township | under 2% | D | C | 20 min | $58,042 |
| Pleasant Township | 2% | B | B− | 17 min | $75,893 |
| Warren | 34% | C+ | A | 15 min | $53,815 |
| Corydon Township | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
| Hamilton Township | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Elk Township, Corydon Township and Hamilton Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Mead 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 Mead Township: questions
What is the median household income in Mead Township?
$54,076 (±$5,371) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mead Township?
13.1%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mead Township?
21 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mead Township work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Warren (34%, 7 mi), Conewango Township (9%, 12 mi), Brokenstraw Township (3%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mead Township walkable?
Mead Township is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mead Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mead Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mead 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.