Mifflintown at work: jobs, income and the commute
A typical one-way commute lasts 24 minutes (Pennsylvania 26, U.S. 26). Only 2% work in Mifflintown; the top destination outside it is Walker Township (10%, 5 miles). Employers in Mifflintown report 315 jobs for 380 working residents.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Mifflintown by day and by night
On a workday 371 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 306 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 (0.83 per resident).
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 Mifflintown’s working residents head each day
Where Mifflintown clocks in
10% of workers
10% of workers
8% 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.
Most jobs in Mifflintown are in services
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mifflintown, 2014 → 2024: 247 → 315. 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 Mifflintown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 24 minutes each way, quicker than most of Pennsylvania
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mifflintown workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 368 commuters (the 11% 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 Mifflintown goes to work
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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
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 Mifflintown: questions
What is the median household income in Mifflintown?
$51,750 (±$4,777) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mifflintown?
12.1%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mifflintown?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mifflintown work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Walker Township (10%, 5 mi), Fermanagh Township (10%, 3 mi), Delaware Township (8%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Can you get around Mifflintown without a car?
0% 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 Mifflintown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mifflintown
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.