Photo: Dincher · CC BY-SA 3.0A job hub: Muncy Township has 5.0 jobs per working resident, and 2,644 people come in to work
At home: 6% of workers have no commute at all (Pennsylvania 16%). Muncy Township has 2,690 jobs, against 541 working residents. The two grades for Muncy Township are B+ for jobs and income and B for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Muncy Township apart
Muncy Township fills up on a workday
Muncy Township has 2,690 jobs, 5.0 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 3,300 people are in town, more than double the 1,200 who live here. Day and night ↓
Stores, warehouses and trucking
45% of the jobs in Muncy Township are in trade, transport and utilities, against 22% of the jobs its residents hold. The jobs ↓
Young people hold many of the jobs here
32% of the jobs based in Muncy Township are held by workers 29 or younger, against 21% of Muncy Township’s own working residents. 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; with 541 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Muncy Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Muncy Township is better than 71% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate is its strongest input (5.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 54% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and job access by car.
Unemployment (3.9%) is left out: Muncy 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, Muncy Township could be anywhere from B− to A.
Who commutes out of Muncy Township, and who commutes in
On a workday 495 residents head out to work and 46 work right here.
About 3,300 people are in Muncy Township on a workday afternoon, 181% more 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.
The kinds of work in Muncy Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Muncy Township, 2014 → 2024: 2,073 → 2,690. 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 Muncy Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The towns that send workers to Muncy Township
Where Muncy Township clocks in
11% of workers
8% 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.
How long Muncy Township spends getting to work: about 24 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Muncy Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 524 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.
The commute from Muncy Township, by distance
About 27% 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.
Muncy Township is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Muncy Township is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.6% across Pennsylvania.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 557 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). 3.2% of Muncy Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Muncy Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
690th of 4,312: where Muncy Township ranks among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600
| # | 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+ |
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| 8 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 27 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 688 | Fayetteville Township IL | 1,459 | $101K | 6.7% | 3.6% | 4% | B+ |
| 689 | Edgecomb ME | 1,214 | $109K | 5.6% | 3.1% | 3% | B+ |
| 690 | Muncy Township PA | 1,185 | $86K | 5.9% | 3.9% | 9% | B+ |
| 691 | Gibson WI | 1,338 | $81K | 6.1% | 2.0% | 1% | B+ |
| 692 | Oxford Township IL | 1,122 | $75K | 1.6% | 2.0% | 6% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Muncy Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
The towns next door employ 12% of Muncy Township
The biggest share goes to Muncy Creek Township (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Muncy Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muncy Township | – | B+ | B | 24 min | $85,714 |
| Wolf Township | under 2% | C | D | 22 min | $71,492 |
| Clinton Township | 4% | B− | D | 22 min | $74,063 |
| Fairfield Township | under 2% | B+ | C− | 29 min | $73,409 |
| Upper Fairfield Township | under 2% | B | D | 20 min | $79,423 |
| Muncy Creek Township | 8% | B− | C+ | 18 min | $75,882 |
| Mill Creek Township | under 2% | — | — | 37 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Mill Creek Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Muncy 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 Muncy Township: questions
What is the median household income in Muncy Township?
$85,714 (±$11,318) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Muncy Township?
5.9%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Muncy Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Muncy Township work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Williamsport (11%, 12 mi), Muncy Creek Township (8%, 5 mi), Loyalsock Township (5%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Muncy Township walkable?
Muncy Township is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.0 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Muncy Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Muncy Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Muncy 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.