Centre Mills · Photo: Smallbones · CC0Miles Township has 0.3 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
About one in seven stay in Miles Township for work; outside it, College Township is the main destination (10%, 26 miles). Employers in Miles Township report 213 jobs; 655 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Miles Township is better than 45% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (C+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Miles Township apart on work
Inside Miles Township’s Jobs & income grade
The poverty rate holds Miles Township’s grade up (5.5%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 18% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (0.3%) is left out: Miles 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, Miles Township could be anywhere from C to B.
Miles to work from Miles Township
About 28% 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.
Miles Township quiets down on a workday
On a workday 558 residents head out to work, 97 work right here, and 116 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Miles Township on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
Out of Miles Township to work: where people go
Where Miles Township clocks in
10% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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.
90% of the jobs in Miles Township make or build things
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Miles Township, 2013 → 2023: 94 → 213. 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 Miles Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 28 minutes each way for Miles Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Miles Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 628 commuters (the 20% 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.
The commute in Miles Township is mostly behind the wheel
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 3.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 782 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). 23.4% of Miles Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Miles Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Miles Township is 2,489th among 5,509 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 31 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 57 | West Conshohocken PA | 1,498 | $139K | 5.0% | 1.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,487 | Gervais OR | 2,572 | $83K | 11.2% | 7.2% | 3% | B− |
| 2,488 | Clay Township OH | 1,901 | $61K | 11.8% | 1.9% | 4% | B− |
| 2,489 | Miles Township PA | 1,974 | $72K | 5.5% | 0.3% | 15% | B− |
| 2,490 | Jackson Township PA | 1,852 | $96K | 12.4% | 2.0% | 3% | B− |
| 2,491 | Gregg Township PA | 2,242 | $67K | 9.0% | 3.0% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,509 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Miles Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Work in the towns next to Miles Township
The biggest share goes to Penn Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Miles Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miles Township | – | B− | C+ | 28 min | $71,544 |
| Haines Township | under 2% | C− | B− | 31 min | $76,667 |
| Logan Township | under 2% | — | — | 33 min | — |
| Greene Township | 2% | C | C+ | 28 min | $73,517 |
| Penn Township | 4% | C | B+ | 38 min | $69,550 |
| Gregg Township | under 2% | B− | B | 29 min | $67,292 |
Same-state neighbors only. Logan Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Miles 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 Miles Township: questions
What is the median household income in Miles Township?
$71,544 (±$6,390) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Miles Township?
5.5%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Miles Township?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Miles Township work?
15% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are College Township (10%, 26 mi), State College (5%, 28 mi), Ferguson Township (4%, 34 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Miles Township walkable?
Miles Township is more walkable than 44% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 3.0 out of 20, and 9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Miles Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 23% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Miles Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Miles 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.