Households in Montour Township have lower incomes than those in 61% of U.S. towns
Below the poverty line: 9.5% of residents, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania. Montour Township grades B− for jobs and income and B for walkability. Only 1% work in Montour Township; the top destination outside it is Mahoning Township (17%, 5 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Montour Township: the figures worth knowing
Jobs & income in Montour Township: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Montour Township is better than 48% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Montour Township’s grade up (ahead of 54% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($68,203, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate.
Unemployment (5.8%) is left out: Montour Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Montour Township could be anywhere from C to B+.
About 20 minutes each way for Montour Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Montour Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 443 commuters (the 14% 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.
Who leaves Montour Township for work, and who comes in
On a workday 510 residents head out to work, 6 work right here, and 449 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.88 per resident).
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 Montour Township’s working residents head each day
Where Montour Township clocks in
17% of workers
14% 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.
What Montour Township’s employers do
455 jobs are based in Montour Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Montour Township, 2014 → 2024: 416 → 455. 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 Montour Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Montour Township
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.
The commute in Montour Township is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Montour Township is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Montour Township near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 517 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). 3.8% of Montour Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Montour Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Montour Township next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700: 1,760th of 4,866 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 9 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 14 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,758 | Malta Township IL | 1,528 | $85K | 17.7% | 2.1% | 4% | B− |
| 1,759 | Farming Township MN | 1,018 | $95K | 11.4% | 0.6% | 1% | B− |
| 1,760 | Montour Township PA | 1,260 | $68K | 9.5% | 5.8% | 1% | B− |
| 1,761 | Geronimo TX | 1,507 | $72K | 12.7% | 1.9% | 3% | B− |
| 1,762 | Monroeville OH | 1,283 | $65K | 7.2% | 5.0% | 9% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Montour Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Work next door: 19% of Montour Township’s workers
The biggest share goes to Bloomsburg (14%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Montour Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montour Township | – | B− | B | 20 min | $68,203 |
| Cooper Township | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Bloomsburg | 14% | C | A | 15 min | $51,536 |
| Catawissa | under 2% | C− | A− | 24 min | $51,992 |
| Hemlock Township | 5% | B+ | B | 22 min | $89,091 |
| Franklin Township | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Catawissa Township | under 2% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| Fernville | under 2% | — | — | 20 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Cooper Township: not graded. Franklin Township and Catawissa Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Fernville: 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 Montour 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 Montour Township: questions
What is the median household income in Montour Township?
$68,203 (±$9,373) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Montour Township?
9.5%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Montour Township?
20 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Montour Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mahoning Township (17%, 5 mi), Bloomsburg (14%, 4 mi), Hemlock Township (5%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Montour Township walkable?
Montour Township is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 7.8 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Montour Township without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Montour Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Montour 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.