Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0Most of Millersburg commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
There are 561 jobs in Millersburg, against 1,247 working residents. The two grades for Millersburg are C+ for jobs and income and A− for walkability. Measured by household income, Millersburg is behind 82% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Millersburg stands out on work
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Millersburg
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Millersburg is better than 38% of U.S. towns, #801 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Unemployment holds Millersburg’s grade up (2.9%, U.S. 5.2%); household income pulls it down ($54,421, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Millersburg could be anywhere from D to B+.
Commuting from Millersburg: about 20 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Millersburg workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,085 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 many people are in Millersburg by day
On a workday 1,137 residents head out to work, 110 work right here, and 451 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,900 people are in Millersburg on a workday afternoon, 27% 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 2024, primary jobs.
10% of working residents work in Upper Paxton Township
Where Millersburg clocks in
10% of workers
9% of workers
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.
What Millersburg’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Millersburg, 2014 → 2024: 720 → 561. 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 Millersburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Millersburg works
About 16% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Millersburg
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.2% 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 1,218 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). Nearly all residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 31% 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). 18.2% of Millersburg households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Millersburg’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Millersburg ranks: 2,804th of 4,868 U.S. towns of 1,800 to 3,400
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 58 | Churchill PA | 3,014 | $107K | 1.9% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 70 | Thornbury Township PA | 3,165 | $172K | 2.4% | 2.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,802 | Caneadea NY | 2,217 | $83K | 16.3% | 8.4% | 13% | C+ |
| 2,803 | Brady Township OH | 2,579 | $73K | 8.9% | 5.8% | 9% | C+ |
| 2,804 | Millersburg PA | 2,540 | $54K | 13.0% | 2.9% | 9% | C+ |
| 2,805 | Dublin VA | 2,652 | $62K | 16.1% | 2.7% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,806 | Assyria Township MI | 2,048 | $78K | 12.0% | 12.0% | 1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,868 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 61% | 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 Millersburg, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
The towns around Millersburg
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Millersburg workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Millersburg | – | C+ | A− | 20 min | $54,421 |
| Lenkerville | under 3% | — | — | 37 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Lenkerville: 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 Millersburg’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 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 Millersburg: questions
What is the median household income in Millersburg?
$54,421 (±$6,267) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Millersburg?
13.0%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Millersburg?
20 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Millersburg work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Upper Paxton Township (10%, 3 mi), Harrisburg (9%, 19 mi), Susquehanna Township (6%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Millersburg walkable?
Millersburg is more walkable than 82% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 16.1 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Millersburg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 18% of households have no car. 31% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Millersburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Millersburg
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. 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.