Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Most of Orwell Township commutes out: there are 0.5 jobs for every working resident
Jobs and income earn Orwell Township B−; getting around on foot earns it C+. 216 jobs are based in Orwell Township; 465 of its residents have a job. 7% of workers have no commute at all, against 16% across Pennsylvania.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Orwell Township stands out on work
Why Orwell Township gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Orwell Township is better than 49% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Orwell Township’s grade up (6.2%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down. It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.1%) is left out: Orwell 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, Orwell Township could be anywhere from C to B+.
The daily trip from Orwell Township: about 34 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Orwell Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 517 commuters (the 7% 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.
A workday in Orwell Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 439 residents head out to work, 26 work right here, and 190 people come in from elsewhere.
About 950 people are in Orwell Township on a workday afternoon, 21% 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.
9% of working residents work in Wyalusing Township
Where Orwell Township clocks in
6% 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 Orwell Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Orwell Township, 2013 → 2023: 44 → 216. 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 Orwell Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How far it is to work from Orwell Township
About 25% 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.
The commute in Orwell Township is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Orwell Township is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 5.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 556 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). 1.7% of Orwell Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Orwell Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Orwell Township next to U.S. towns of 800 to 1,600: 1,505th of 4,312 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% | 1% | 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% | 16% | 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% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,503 | Silver Creek Township MN | 1,222 | $88K | 6.4% | 5.6% | 8% | B− |
| 1,504 | Orange Township OH | 1,127 | $110K | 20.2% | 5.0% | 1% | B− |
| 1,505 | Orwell Township PA | 1,200 | $90K | 6.2% | 1.1% | 6% | B− |
| 1,506 | Gardner WI | 1,228 | $69K | 4.8% | 0.8% | 1% | B− |
| 1,507 | Bunker Hill IL | 1,593 | $76K | 10.5% | 5.0% | 9% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,312 | 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 Orwell Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Next door to Orwell Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Orwell Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orwell Township | – | B− | C+ | 34 min | $89,766 |
| Warren Township | under 3% | C− | D | 33 min | $70,625 |
| Rome Township | under 3% | B | D | 27 min | $90,769 |
| Pike Township | under 3% | — | — | 38 min | — |
| Windham Township | under 3% | — | — | 27 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Pike Township and Windham Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Orwell 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 Orwell Township: questions
What is the median household income in Orwell Township?
$89,766 (±$13,233) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Orwell Township?
6.2%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Orwell Township?
34 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Orwell Township work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wyalusing Township (9%, 13 mi), Sayre (6%, 15 mi), Wysox Township (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Orwell Township walkable?
Orwell Township is more walkable than 42% of U.S. towns (Walkability C+): an EPA walkability index of 5.8 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Orwell Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Orwell Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Orwell 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.