Mount Pleasant Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.1 for each
There are 79 jobs in Mount Pleasant Township, and 567 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Mount Pleasant Township C; getting around on foot earns it C. Only 3% work in Mount Pleasant Township; the top destination outside it is Honesdale (8%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Mount Pleasant Township at work: what stands out
Mount Pleasant Township is a place people come home to
There are 79 jobs based in Mount Pleasant Township, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Mount Pleasant Township has about 980 people in it, 33% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A big share show a job far from home
32% of working residents have a main job more than 50 miles away. Part of that is employers that report every worker at one head office, so not all of those trips happen daily. How far ↓
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; with 567 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Mount Pleasant Township gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Mount Pleasant Township is better than 28% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Mount Pleasant Township’s grade up ($83,750, U.S. $80,734); job access by car pulls it down.
Unemployment (5.2%) is left out: Mount Pleasant 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, Mount Pleasant Township could be anywhere from C− to C+.
In and out of Mount Pleasant Township on a workday
On a workday 550 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 62 people come in from elsewhere.
About 980 people are in Mount Pleasant Township on a workday afternoon, 33% 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 2023, primary jobs.
How far Mount Pleasant Township goes to work
About 32% 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.
Where people from Mount Pleasant Township work
Where Mount Pleasant Township clocks in
8% 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.
The kinds of work in Mount Pleasant Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Mount Pleasant Township, 2013 → 2023: 85 → 79. 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 Mount Pleasant Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily trip from Mount Pleasant Township: about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Mount Pleasant Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 571 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.
Driving is how Mount Pleasant Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Mount Pleasant Township is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 3.9.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 652 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). 4.0% of Mount Pleasant Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Mount Pleasant Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 1,000 to 2,000, Mount Pleasant Township ranks 3,737th of 6,308 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 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 13 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 37 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,735 | Kimmel Township PA | 1,513 | $62K | 10.7% | 1.4% | 2% | C |
| 3,736 | Springfield Township PA | 1,128 | $66K | 8.0% | 3.3% | 3% | C |
| 3,737 | Mount Pleasant Township PA | 1,463 | $84K | 12.6% | 5.2% | 3% | C |
| 3,738 | Eldred Township PA | 1,341 | $74K | 11.1% | 6.7% | 2% | C |
| 3,739 | Edwardsburg MI | 1,286 | $53K | 18.0% | 2.9% | 6% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 6,308 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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 Pleasant Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
The towns around Mount Pleasant Township
The biggest share goes to Preston Township (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Mount Pleasant Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Pleasant Township | – | C | C | 30 min | $83,750 |
| Clinton Township | under 2% | C | C− | 26 min | $67,708 |
| Lebanon Township | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Preston Township | 7% | C− | D | 37 min | $71,250 |
| Buckingham Township | under 2% | — | — | 46 min | — |
| Herrick Township | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Dyberry Township | under 2% | B− | B+ | 22 min | $88,438 |
Same-state neighbors only. Lebanon Township, Buckingham Township and Herrick Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Mount Pleasant 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 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 Mount Pleasant Township: questions
What is the median household income in Mount Pleasant Township?
$83,750 (±$6,813) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Mount Pleasant Township?
12.6%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Mount Pleasant Township?
30 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 Pleasant Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Honesdale (8%, 14 mi), Preston Township (7%, 7 mi), New York City (4%, 106 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Mount Pleasant Township walkable?
Mount Pleasant Township is more walkable than 25% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 3.9 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Mount Pleasant Township without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Mount Pleasant Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Mount Pleasant Township
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.