Pleasant Grove School · Photo: Smallbones · CC0Unemployment in Mount Joy Township (1.4%) is lower than in 91% of U.S. towns
Only 5% work in Mount Joy Township itself; outside it, Gettysburg draws the most (9%, 5 miles). For jobs and income Mount Joy Township is better than 75% of U.S. towns (B+); for walkability it is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns (B−). Household incomes here are higher than in 72% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Mount Joy Township and work: the main findings
The better-paid jobs are outside Mount Joy Township
69% of Mount Joy Township residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 37% of the jobs based in Mount Joy Township pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 95% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Many jobs in Mount Joy Township pay little
30% of the jobs based in Mount Joy Township pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 40% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
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 Mount Joy Township earns its Jobs & income grade
Unemployment holds Mount Joy Township’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 42% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Mount Joy Township could be anywhere from B− to A.
What Mount Joy Township’s employers do
749 jobs are based in Mount Joy Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mount Joy Township, 2014 → 2024: 881 → 749. 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 Mount Joy Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who leaves Mount Joy Township for work, and who comes in
On a workday 1,558 residents head out to work, 83 work right here, and 666 people come in from elsewhere.
About 3,000 people are in Mount Joy Township on a workday afternoon, 23% fewer than live here.
0.46 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 people from Mount Joy Township work
Where Mount Joy Township clocks in
9% 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.
The trip to work from Mount Joy Township: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mount Joy Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,723 commuters (the 12% 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 distance from Mount Joy Township to work
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.
For most of Mount Joy Township, work means a drive
How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 6.1.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,959 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). <1% 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 0.5 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 50% 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). 1.0% of Mount Joy Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Mount Joy Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Mount Joy Township is 1,078th of 4,264 U.S. towns of 2,700 to 5,200 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Mission Hills KS | 3,522 | $250K | 1.2% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
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| 21 | Wallace Township PA | 3,759 | $183K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 5% | A+ |
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| 26 | Edgmont Township PA | 4,706 | $137K | 2.4% | 1.1% | 4% | A+ |
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| 62 | Pocopson Township PA | 4,480 | $230K | 1.3% | 2.2% | 4% | A+ |
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| 1,076 | Park Hills KY | 3,188 | $100K | 7.5% | 5.2% | 2% | B+ |
| 1,077 | Green Township IN | 3,718 | $116K | 0.8% | 8.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,078 | Mount Joy Township PA | 3,881 | $94K | 8.0% | 1.4% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,079 | Saylorville IA | 3,366 | $118K | 3.7% | 11.4% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,080 | Fairbury IL | 3,597 | $71K | 2.1% | 0.9% | 19% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,264 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Mount Joy Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Next door to Mount Joy Township
The biggest share goes to Straban Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mount Joy Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Joy Township | – | B+ | B− | 29 min | $93,917 |
| Germany Township | under 2% | A− | C | 34 min | $102,656 |
| Cumberland Township | 3% | B | B | 24 min | $83,021 |
| Mount Pleasant Township | under 2% | B | C | 30 min | $90,833 |
| Straban Township | 4% | B+ | B+ | 27 min | $88,438 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Mount Joy 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 Mount Joy Township: questions
What is the median household income in Mount Joy Township?
$93,917 (±$17,087) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mount Joy Township?
8.0%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mount Joy Township?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Mount Joy Township work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Gettysburg (9%, 5 mi), Hanover (5%, 11 mi), Straban Township (4%, 8 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Mount Joy Township walkable?
Mount Joy Township is more walkable than 53% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 6.1 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mount Joy Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mount Joy Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mount Joy 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.