Photo: BigCheddah · CC BY-SA 4.0Millersville is a college town: 44% of residents are students
8% of workers work from home, next to 16% for Pennsylvania as a whole. Jobs and income earn Millersville C+; getting around on foot earns it A−. Only 3% work in Millersville itself; outside it, Lancaster draws the most (15%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Millersville, in brief
Nearly all the work in Millersville is services
89% of the jobs based here are in services, such as health care, schools and offices. Only 1% are in factories, building or farms. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Millersville are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 26 across Pennsylvania. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Pennsylvania worker, and quicker than any town next door (24 to 27 minutes). Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
How Millersville earns its Jobs & income grade
On family income, poverty and job access, Millersville is better than 40% of U.S. towns, #778 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Job access by car holds Millersville’s grade up (ahead of 78% of U.S. towns); the poverty rate pulls it down (17.3%, U.S. 11.9%).
Where students are 15% or more of the people the Census checks for poverty (19% here), the grade uses the rate without them: 17.3%, against 23.1% for all residents. Unemployment (5.0%) is left out here: students looking for part-time work count as unemployed. Income is ranked as median family income ($78,227), since student households pull the household median down ($67,866).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for family income and poverty, Millersville could be anywhere from C− to A−.
Most jobs in Millersville are in services
1,792 jobs are based in Millersville.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Millersville, 2014 → 2024: 1,992 → 1,792. 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 Millersville’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Millersville spends getting to work: about 20 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Millersville workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 3,898 commuters (the 8% 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 daily flow of workers through Millersville
On a workday 2,733 residents head out to work, 98 work right here, and 1,694 people come in from elsewhere.
About 8,200 people are in Millersville on a workday afternoon, 11% fewer than live here.
0.63 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 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Millersville: the destinations
Where Millersville clocks in
9% of workers
7% 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.
How far it is to work from Millersville
About 17% 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.
Millersville is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Millersville is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns, #321 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 19.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 6.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,229 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). 4.7% of Millersville households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Millersville’s commuters take a bus or train.
Out of 2,841 U.S. towns of 6,500 to 12,500, Millersville comes 1,946th on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Braddock VA | 6,536 | $212K | 0.9% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
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| 19 | West Vincent Township PA | 6,885 | $203K | 1.4% | 0.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 54 | Bethel Township PA | 9,774 | $177K | 1.8% | 2.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 59 | Upper Nazareth Township PA | 8,521 | $122K | 1.2% | 0.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,944 | Forestdale AL | 9,742 | $67K | 17.8% | 5.5% | 2% | C+ |
| 1,945 | Maili HI | 11,570 | $112K | 11.3% | 9.6% | 2% | C+ |
| 1,946 | Millersville PA | 9,280 | $68K | 23.1% | 5.0% | 3% | C+ |
| 1,947 | DuBois PA | 7,254 | $63K | 14.0% | 3.4% | 33% | C+ |
| 1,948 | Oceano CA | 7,128 | $72K | 17.2% | 4.1% | 6% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,841 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Millersville, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
How Millersville compares with the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Millersville workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Millersville | – | C+ | A− | 20 min | $67,866 |
| Manor Township | 3% | A− | C | 25 min | $89,917 |
| Lancaster Township | 2% | B+ | B | 24 min | $88,912 |
| Pequea Township | under 2% | A+ | C− | 27 min | $109,447 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Manor Township. Darker towns draw more of Millersville’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.
- Students. 44% of residents are college students; the poverty input leaves off-campus students out (above).
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Millersville: questions
What is the median household income in Millersville?
$67,866 (±$9,249) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Millersville?
23.1% of residents live below the poverty line; leaving out college students, 17.3%. Pennsylvania: 11.7%.
How long is the commute from Millersville?
20 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 8% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Millersville work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Lancaster (15%, 4 mi), East Hempfield Township (9%, 6 mi), Manheim Township (7%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Millersville walkable?
Millersville is more walkable than 80% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 6.9 out of 20, and 19% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Millersville without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 5% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Millersville, from the people who make the trip.
More of Millersville
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.