Photo: Generic1139 · CC BY-SA 3.0Monongahela Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.5 for each
Home is the office for 6% of workers, where Pennsylvania as a whole has 16%. Employers in Monongahela Township report 309 jobs; 602 of its residents have a job. For jobs and income Monongahela Township is better than 22% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (C+).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The figures behind Monongahela Township’s Jobs & income grade
Household income holds Monongahela Township’s grade up ($70,357, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 13% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (1.7%) is left out: Monongahela Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Monongahela Township could be anywhere from D to B−.
Who leaves Monongahela Township for work, and who comes in
On a workday 571 residents head out to work, 31 work right here, and 278 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Monongahela Township 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 2024, primary jobs.
8% of working residents work in Morgantown
Where Monongahela Township clocks in
8% of workers
6% 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.
Goods, not services: 28% of the jobs in Monongahela Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Monongahela Township, 2014 → 2024: 256 → 309. 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 Monongahela Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Monongahela Township’s commute takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Monongahela Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 546 commuters (the 6% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Monongahela Township
About 19% 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.
Most of Monongahela Township commutes by car
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 5.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 582 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). 0.5% of Monongahela Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Monongahela Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Monongahela Township ranks: 3,915th of 5,877 U.S. towns of 1,000 to 1,900
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,913 | Grant Township IN | 1,095 | $84K | 20.7% | 0.6% | 6% | C− |
| 3,914 | Londonderry Township PA | 1,623 | $52K | 6.0% | 2.1% | 1% | C− |
| 3,915 | Monongahela Township PA | 1,415 | $70K | 12.9% | 1.7% | 5% | C− |
| 3,916 | Renville MN | 1,268 | $69K | 13.1% | 5.3% | 10% | C− |
| 3,917 | Independence WI | 1,487 | $58K | 10.4% | 3.8% | 6% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,877 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Monongahela Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Around Monongahela Township: the bordering towns
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Monongahela Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monongahela Township | – | C− | C+ | 26 min | $70,357 |
| Cumberland Township | 3% | C | C+ | 29 min | $63,592 |
| Dunkard Township | 6% | D | D− | 32 min | $56,964 |
| Greene Township | under 2% | — | — | 26 min | — |
| German Township | under 2% | C | D | 29 min | $61,834 |
| Nicholson Township | under 2% | C | D− | 32 min | $65,096 |
| Springhill Township | under 2% | D− | D− | 28 min | $44,700 |
| Greensboro | under 2% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| Masontown | under 2% | D | C+ | 28 min | $53,676 |
Same-state neighbors only. Greene Township and Greensboro: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Dunkard Township. Darker towns draw more of Monongahela 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 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 Monongahela Township: questions
What is the median household income in Monongahela Township?
$70,357 (±$15,415) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Monongahela Township?
12.9%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Monongahela Township?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Monongahela Township work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Morgantown (8%, 12 mi), Dunkard Township (6%, 5 mi), Franklin Township (5%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Monongahela Township walkable?
Monongahela Township is more walkable than 39% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.9 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Monongahela Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 0% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Monongahela Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Monongahela Township
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.