Photo: Nyttend · Public domainPaint Township has 2.8 jobs for every working resident: 1,786 people commute in to work
Jobs and income earn Paint Township C+; getting around on foot earns it B+. Paint Township has 1,871 jobs; 674 of its residents have a job. About one in seven work in Paint Township; the top destination outside it is Clarion (7%, 3 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Paint Township stands out on work
Paint Township is where the jobs are
Paint Township has 1,871 jobs, 2.8 for every working resident. On a workday afternoon about 2,800 people are in town, 74% more than the 1,600 who live here. Day and night ↓
Paint Township makes and builds things
45% of the jobs based in Paint Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Paint Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 22%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Paint Township are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 26 across Pennsylvania. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Pennsylvania worker. Time on the road ↓
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 674 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Paint Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Paint Township is better than 36% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Paint Township’s grade up (8.4%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($62,083, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (8.1%) is left out: Paint 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, Paint Township could be anywhere from C− to B−.
Who leaves Paint Township for work, and who comes in
On a workday 589 residents head out to work and 85 work right here.
About 2,800 people are in Paint Township on a workday afternoon, 74% 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.
A place that makes things: 45% of Paint Township’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Paint Township, 2014 → 2024: 1,858 → 1,871. 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 Paint Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
About 21 minutes each way for Paint Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Paint Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 631 commuters (the 9% 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.
Who travels to work in Paint Township, and from where
Where Paint Township clocks in
7% of workers
6% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Paint Township
About 26% 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.
The commute in Paint Township is mostly behind the wheel
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Paint Township is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 6.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 692 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). 7.4% of Paint Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Paint Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Paint Township is 3,156th of 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,154 | Superior Township OH | 1,282 | $67K | 9.9% | 0.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 3,155 | New Market Township OH | 1,867 | $70K | 18.1% | 1.9% | 1% | C+ |
| 3,156 | Paint Township PA | 1,622 | $62K | 8.4% | 8.1% | 13% | C+ |
| 3,157 | Limestone Township PA | 1,825 | $74K | 9.4% | 11.5% | 4% | C+ |
| 3,158 | Pioneer CA | 1,155 | $76K | 6.5% | 5.1% | <1% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Paint Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Next door is work for 13% of Paint Township
The biggest share goes to Clarion Township (5%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Paint Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paint Township | – | C+ | B+ | 21 min | $62,083 |
| Highland Township | under 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Monroe Township | 4% | C− | B | 25 min | $67,067 |
| Clarion Township | 5% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Elk Township | under 2% | C− | D | 28 min | $55,402 |
| Knox Township | under 2% | — | — | 24 min | — |
| Piney Township | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Beaver Township | 4% | C | C | 27 min | $63,594 |
Same-state neighbors only. Highland Township and Piney Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Clarion Township and Knox Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Paint 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 Paint Township: questions
What is the median household income in Paint Township?
$62,083 (±$10,846) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Paint Township?
8.4%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Paint Township?
21 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Paint Township work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Clarion (7%, 3 mi), Knox (6%, 7 mi), Clarion Township (5%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Paint Township walkable?
Paint Township is more walkable than 66% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Paint Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Paint Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Paint 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.