Cline's Church of the United Brethren in Christ · Photo: Smallbones · CC0Households in Menallen Township earn more than those in 63% of U.S. towns
7% of workers work from home, against 16% across Pennsylvania. 6.9% of residents are in poverty, next to 11.7% for Pennsylvania as a whole. For jobs and income Menallen Township is better than 59% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (D).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Menallen Township apart on work
What’s behind Menallen Township’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Menallen Township’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 38% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Menallen Township could be anywhere from C to A.
83% of the jobs in Menallen Township make or build things
994 jobs are based in Menallen Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Menallen Township, 2013 → 2023: 929 → 994. 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 Menallen Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Menallen Township quiets down on a workday
On a workday 1,516 residents head out to work, 184 work right here, and 810 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,100 people are in Menallen Township on a workday afternoon, 19% fewer than live here.
0.58 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 Gettysburg
Where Menallen Township clocks in
6% 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 Menallen Township, about 28 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Menallen Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,664 commuters (the 7% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Menallen Township
About 21% 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 Menallen Township start in a car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.9% 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 1,781 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). 3.2% of Menallen Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Menallen Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Menallen Township is 1,709th of 4,153 U.S. towns of 2,700 to 5,100 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
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| 21 | Wallace Township PA | 3,759 | $183K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 3% | A+ |
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| 26 | Edgmont Township PA | 4,706 | $137K | 2.4% | 1.1% | 3% | A+ |
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| 62 | Pocopson Township PA | 4,480 | $230K | 1.3% | 2.2% | 3% | A+ |
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| 1,707 | Galena IL | 3,210 | $59K | 6.4% | 1.6% | 40% | B |
| 1,708 | Binghamton NY | 4,435 | $105K | 8.2% | 6.4% | 4% | B |
| 1,709 | Menallen Township PA | 3,802 | $86K | 6.9% | 4.0% | 11% | B |
| 1,710 | Cambridge VT | 3,666 | $72K | 6.7% | 1.6% | 23% | B |
| 1,711 | Macungie PA | 3,395 | $76K | 16.9% | 3.1% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 4,153 | 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 Menallen Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
The towns around Menallen Township
The biggest share goes to Tyrone Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Menallen Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Menallen Township | – | B | D | 28 min | $86,083 |
| Franklin Township | under 2% | B+ | C | 34 min | $100,475 |
| Tyrone Township | 3% | B+ | C | 32 min | $77,460 |
| Butler Township | 3% | B− | C | 26 min | $89,276 |
| Gardners | under 2% | — | — | — | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Gardners: 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 Menallen 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 Menallen Township: questions
What is the median household income in Menallen Township?
$86,083 (±$6,872) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Menallen Township?
6.9%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Menallen Township?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Menallen Township work?
11% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Gettysburg (6%, 11 mi), Straban Township (4%, 10 mi), Tyrone Township (3%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Menallen Township walkable?
Menallen Township is more walkable than 10% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Menallen Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Menallen Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Menallen 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.