Photo: Ruhrfisch · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Mill Hall commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Household incomes here are lower than in 82% of U.S. towns. 370 jobs are based in Mill Hall for 674 working residents. Mill Hall grades C− for jobs and income and A− for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Jobs & income in Mill Hall: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Mill Hall is better than 18% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Mill Hall’s grade up (ahead of 40% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($54,333, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (2.5%) is left out: Mill Hall’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, Mill Hall could be anywhere from D to C.
Who works in Mill Hall, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 662 residents head out to work, 12 work right here, and 358 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,200 people are in Mill Hall on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
11% of working residents work in Lock Haven
Where Mill Hall clocks in
11% of workers
7% of workers
5% 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.
The kinds of work in Mill Hall
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mill Hall, 2013 → 2023: 409 → 370. 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 Mill Hall’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Mill Hall: about 29 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mill Hall workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 629 commuters (the 9% 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 distance from Mill Hall to work
About 25% 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.
In Mill Hall, walking beats the bus
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mill Hall is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 3.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.6% across Pennsylvania.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 691 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). 10.8% of Mill Hall households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mill Hall’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 6,308 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000, Mill Hall comes 4,482nd 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,480 | Philadelphia NY | 1,937 | $76K | 18.9% | 2.8% | 17% | C− |
| 4,481 | Ferndale CA | 1,348 | $63K | 13.0% | 6.1% | 14% | C− |
| 4,482 | Mill Hall PA | 1,456 | $54K | 16.1% | 2.5% | 2% | C− |
| 4,483 | Waitsburg WA | 1,184 | $68K | 12.4% | 5.5% | 3% | C− |
| 4,484 | Salt Creek Township IN | 1,003 | $62K | 10.9% | 3.4% | <1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | 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 Mill Hall, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Mill Hall and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to Bald Eagle Township (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mill Hall workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mill Hall | – | C− | A− | 29 min | $54,333 |
| Bald Eagle Township | 7% | C | B− | 24 min | $75,685 |
| Lamar Township | 2% | B | C | 23 min | $92,188 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Mill Hall’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 Mill Hall: questions
What is the median household income in Mill Hall?
$54,333 (±$6,693) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mill Hall?
16.1%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mill Hall?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mill Hall work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lock Haven (11%, 3 mi), Bald Eagle Township (7%, 5 mi), College Township (5%, 26 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mill Hall walkable?
Mill Hall is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 10.2 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mill Hall without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mill Hall, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mill Hall
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.