John Williams House · Photo: Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD · CC BY-SA 4.0Monroe Township’s household incomes are higher than in 90% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Monroe Township is better than 91% of U.S. towns (A); for walkability it is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (C). Below the poverty line: 6.3% of residents, where Pennsylvania as a whole has 11.7%. Only 4% work in Monroe Township itself; outside it, Harrisburg draws the most (9%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Monroe Township, in a few figures
The figures behind Monroe Township’s Jobs & income grade
Household income is its strongest input ($124,443, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns. It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Monroe Township could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
Goods jobs make up 35% of work in Monroe Township
871 jobs are based in Monroe Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Monroe Township, 2014 → 2024: 698 → 871. 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 Monroe Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Monroe Township by day and by night
On a workday 2,584 residents head out to work, 96 work right here, and 775 people come in from elsewhere.
About 4,900 people are in Monroe Township on a workday afternoon, 27% fewer than live here.
0.33 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.
Where Monroe Township goes to work
Where Monroe Township clocks in
9% of workers
7% 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.
Getting to work from Monroe Township takes about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Monroe Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,736 commuters (the 16% 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.
Where in the region Monroe Township 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.
In Monroe Township, most people drive to work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 3,262 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). 4.9% of Monroe Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Monroe Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 4,700 to 9,100, Monroe Township ranks 371st of 3,253 on jobs and income
| # | 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% | 5% | A+ |
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| 23 | West Vincent Township PA | 6,885 | $203K | 1.4% | 0.8% | 5% | A+ |
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| 28 | Edgmont Township PA | 4,706 | $137K | 2.4% | 1.1% | 4% | A+ |
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| 63 | Upper Nazareth Township PA | 8,521 | $122K | 1.2% | 0.9% | 4% | A+ |
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| 369 | Peninsula Township MI | 6,160 | $138K | 4.2% | 0.7% | 9% | A |
| 370 | Berkshire Township OH | 6,329 | $145K | 5.9% | 3.3% | 3% | A |
| 371 | Monroe Township PA | 6,748 | $124K | 6.3% | 2.2% | 4% | A |
| 372 | Layhill MD | 5,497 | $146K | 4.3% | 4.7% | 1% | A |
| 373 | Watertown MN | 4,789 | $100K | 7.7% | 0.0% | 5% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,253 | 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 Monroe Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
17% of Monroe Township works in a town next door
The biggest share goes to Silver Spring Township (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Monroe Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monroe Township | – | A | C | 24 min | $124,443 |
| Carroll Township | under 4% | A | B− | 27 min | $118,929 |
| South Middleton Township | 3% | A− | C+ | 23 min | $92,421 |
| Silver Spring Township | 7% | A+ | B | 21 min | $125,102 |
| Upper Allen Township | 4% | A | A | 19 min | $99,197 |
| Mechanicsburg | under 4% | A | A− | 25 min | $84,421 |
| Middlesex Township | 3% | B | D | 18 min | $76,833 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Monroe 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 Monroe Township: questions
What is the median household income in Monroe Township?
$124,443 (±$19,211) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Monroe Township?
6.3%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Monroe Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Monroe Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Harrisburg (9%, 13 mi), Hampden Township (7%, 8 mi), Silver Spring Township (7%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Monroe Township walkable?
Monroe Township is more walkable than 30% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 5.7 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Monroe Township without a car?
0% 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 Monroe Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Monroe 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.