With 0.4 jobs for every working resident, most of Packer Township works elsewhere
The two grades for Packer Township are B for jobs and income and C− for walkability. 147 jobs are based in Packer Township for 418 working residents. For 6% of workers, the job is at home; Pennsylvania has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Packer Township at work: what stands out
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Packer Township
On income, poverty and job access, Packer Township is better than 62% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Packer Township’s grade up (5.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 39% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (8.2%) is left out: Packer Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Packer Township could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
How long Packer Township spends getting to work: about 32 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.2 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Packer Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 347 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 daily flow of workers through Packer Township
On a workday 410 residents head out to work, 8 work right here, and 139 people come in from elsewhere.
About 760 people are in Packer Township on a workday afternoon, 26% 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.
14% of working residents work in Hazle Township
Where Packer Township clocks in
10% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Packer Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Packer Township, 2013 → 2023: 94 → 147. 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 Packer Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Packer Township
About 21% 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.
Packer Township is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Packer Township is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 3.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 370 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). 8.6% of Packer Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 2% of Packer Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Packer Township next to U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400: 696th of 3,133 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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| 7 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 694 | Marshfield WI | 1,199 | $99K | 9.8% | 0.0% | 2% | B |
| 695 | Frederica DE | 1,155 | $81K | 6.5% | 3.4% | 0% | B |
| 696 | Packer Township PA | 1,029 | $78K | 5.1% | 8.2% | 2% | B |
| 697 | Leroy AL | 1,075 | $93K | 1.0% | 3.9% | 2% | B |
| 698 | Howe IN | 1,092 | $60K | 2.8% | 0.0% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Packer Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Work in the towns next to Packer Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Packer Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Packer Township | – | B | C− | 32 min | $77,981 |
| Banks Township | 6% | C+ | B− | 19 min | $63,875 |
| Nesquehoning | under 2% | C− | B | 30 min | $61,354 |
| Rush Township | 3% | C | B− | 36 min | $76,392 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Banks Township. Darker towns draw more of Packer 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 Packer Township: questions
What is the median household income in Packer Township?
$77,981 (±$11,640) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Packer Township?
5.1%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Packer Township?
32 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Packer Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hazle Township (14%, 8 mi), Hazleton (10%, 6 mi), West Hazleton (9%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Packer Township walkable?
Packer Township is more walkable than 24% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 3.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Packer Township without a car?
2% of commuters take transit and 9% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Packer Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Packer 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.