Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Newton Township commutes out: there are 0.3 jobs for every working resident
Newton Township has 455 jobs, and 1,318 of its residents work somewhere. Jobs and income earn Newton Township A−; getting around on foot earns it C−. Measured by household income, Newton Township is ahead of 82% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What’s behind Newton Township’s Jobs & income grade
Household income is its strongest input ($107,847, U.S. $80,734); job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 59% of 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, Newton Township could be anywhere from B− to A+.
A workday in Newton Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 1,253 residents head out to work, 65 work right here, and 390 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,100 people are in Newton Township on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
21% of working residents work in Scranton
Where Newton Township clocks in
21% 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.
Jobs in Newton Township: what the 455 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Newton Township, 2013 → 2023: 410 → 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 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Newton Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Commuting from Newton Township: about 26 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Newton Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,184 commuters (the 11% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Newton Township
About 20% 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.
Most trips from Newton Township start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Newton Township is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns, #899 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Both inputs place Newton 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 1,337 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). 2.4% of Newton Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Newton Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Newton Township is 716th of 4,618 U.S. towns of 2,100 to 4,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | Wallace Township PA | 3,759 | $183K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 34 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 68 | Churchill PA | 3,014 | $107K | 1.9% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 714 | Shallowater TX | 2,957 | $89K | 3.7% | 3.4% | 10% | A− |
| 715 | Union Township KS | 2,704 | $103K | 4.3% | 4.3% | 7% | A− |
| 716 | Newton Township PA | 2,956 | $108K | 6.9% | 2.6% | 5% | A− |
| 717 | Rice Lake WI | 2,897 | $88K | 2.8% | 0.4% | 1% | A− |
| 718 | Konterra MD | 3,641 | $130K | 8.1% | 5.0% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,618 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Newton Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Newton Township and its neighbors
The biggest share goes to South Abington Township (6%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Newton Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newton Township | – | A− | C− | 26 min | $107,847 |
| Ransom Township | under 2% | C− | D | 32 min | $59,886 |
| South Abington Township | 6% | A− | C+ | 26 min | $113,615 |
| Exeter Township | under 2% | C+ | D− | 29 min | $82,621 |
| Glenburn Township | under 2% | A− | B− | 25 min | $88,333 |
| West Abington Township | under 2% | — | — | 29 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. West Abington Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Newton 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 Newton Township: questions
What is the median household income in Newton Township?
$107,847 (±$14,388) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Newton Township?
6.9%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Newton Township?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Newton Township work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Scranton (21%, 6 mi), South Abington Township (6%, 5 mi), Dunmore (5%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Newton Township walkable?
Newton Township is more walkable than 21% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.1 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Newton Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Newton Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Newton 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.