Photo: Dincher · CC BY-SA 3.0Milton has lower household incomes than 82% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 15.2% of residents, next to 11.7% for Pennsylvania as a whole. Jobs and income earn Milton C; getting around on foot earns it B+. About one in seven work in Milton; the top destination outside it is Kelly Township (5%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Milton and work: the main findings
No single place dominates Milton’s commute
The biggest draw, Kelly Township, gets only 5% of working residents, and 55% work outside the top ten towns entirely. Milton residents fan out across the region. The commute map ↓
Milton is where the jobs are
Milton has 4,647 jobs, 1.6 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
44% of the jobs in Milton are in trade, transport and utilities, against 21% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Milton’s Jobs & income grade, measure by measure
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Milton is better than 28% of U.S. towns, #890 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Job access by car holds Milton’s grade up (ahead of 59% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($54,577, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Milton could be anywhere from D to B.
The towns that send workers to Milton
Where Milton clocks in
5% 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.
Who commutes out of Milton, and who commutes in
On a workday 2,507 residents head out to work, 479 work right here, and 4,168 people come in from elsewhere.
About 8,100 people are in Milton on a workday afternoon, 26% more than live here.
1.6 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
What work there is in Milton: 4,647 jobs
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Milton, 2013 → 2023: 4,304 → 4,647. 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 Milton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 23 minutes each way for Milton’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Milton workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,942 commuters (the 13% 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 Milton 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 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
In Milton, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Milton is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns, #394 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 2.8% 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 3,394 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). 11.1% of Milton households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Milton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Milton is 2,533rd among 3,306 U.S. towns of 4,500 to 8,700
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Norwood NJ | 5,817 | $178K | 2.8% | 0.9% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 24 | West Vincent Township PA | 6,885 | $203K | 1.4% | 0.8% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 28 | Edgmont Township PA | 4,706 | $137K | 2.4% | 1.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 64 | Upper Nazareth Township PA | 8,521 | $122K | 1.2% | 0.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,531 | Malone NY | 5,315 | $61K | 22.2% | 2.3% | 34% | C |
| 2,532 | Gustine CA | 6,112 | $60K | 4.0% | 11.3% | 14% | C |
| 2,533 | Milton PA | 6,457 | $55K | 15.2% | 5.3% | 16% | C |
| 2,534 | Geneva Township IN | 7,613 | $70K | 13.0% | 5.8% | 2% | C |
| 2,535 | Webster City IA | 7,815 | $63K | 8.6% | 7.0% | 41% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 3,306 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Milton, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Milton and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Milton workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milton | – | C | B+ | 23 min | $54,577 |
| West Chillisquaque Township | under 2% | B− | C | 20 min | $51,304 |
| Turbot Township | under 2% | B | B+ | 20 min | $72,000 |
| White Deer Township | 2% | A− | C | 18 min | $83,611 |
| Kelly Township | 5% | C+ | B | 17 min | $54,886 |
| West Milton | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Montandon | under 2% | — | — | 18 min | — |
| New Columbia | under 2% | — | — | 14 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. West Milton, Montandon and New Columbia: Census-designated places inside larger towns, graded as part of them. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Kelly Township. Darker towns draw more of Milton’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 Milton: questions
What is the median household income in Milton?
$54,577 (±$8,271) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Milton?
15.2%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Milton?
23 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 13% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Milton work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Kelly Township (5%, 4 mi), Mahoning Township (5%, 13 mi), Lewisburg (4%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Milton walkable?
Milton is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 8.6 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Milton 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 Milton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Milton
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.