Where Palmyra Township earns its living
Palmyra Township grades B− for jobs and income and B for walkability. 9% of workers have no commute at all; Pennsylvania has 16%. Measured by household income, Palmyra Township is behind 55% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Palmyra Township
On income, poverty and job access, Palmyra Township is better than 45% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Palmyra Township’s grade up (4.7%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 12% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.7%) is left out: Palmyra 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, Palmyra Township could be anywhere from C− to B+.
How many people are in Palmyra Township by day
On a workday 505 residents head out to work, 22 work right here, and 298 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,100 people are in Palmyra Township on a workday afternoon, 16% fewer than live here.
0.61 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
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 Honesdale
Where Palmyra Township clocks in
14% 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.
Goods jobs make up 29% of work in Palmyra Township
320 jobs are based in Palmyra Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Palmyra Township, 2013 → 2023: 130 → 320. 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 Palmyra Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A commute of about 30 minutes in Palmyra Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Palmyra Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 569 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.
How far Palmyra Township goes to work
About 23% 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 Palmyra Township start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Palmyra Township is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 4.2% 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 626 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). 4.0% of Palmyra Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Palmyra Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Palmyra Township next to U.S. towns of 900 to 1,700: 1,880th of 4,866 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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| 9 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
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| 14 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
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| 30 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
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| 1,878 | Wyoming Township IL | 1,212 | $69K | 7.6% | 5.9% | 3% | B− |
| 1,879 | Gibson Township PA | 1,010 | $87K | 6.7% | 4.0% | 5% | B− |
| 1,880 | Palmyra Township PA | 1,257 | $72K | 4.7% | 5.7% | 4% | B− |
| 1,881 | Cannonsburg KY | 1,129 | $76K | 11.4% | 10.3% | 2% | B− |
| 1,882 | Mount Airy GA | 1,510 | $88K | 14.1% | 1.5% | <1% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,866 | 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 Palmyra Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
The towns next door employ 14% of Palmyra Township
The biggest share goes to Lackawaxen Township (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Palmyra Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmyra Township | – | B− | B | 30 min | $72,361 |
| Paupack Township | under 2% | C | C− | 39 min | $75,302 |
| Hawley | 3% | D | A+ | 21 min | $48,160 |
| Lackawaxen Township | 7% | C+ | C+ | 36 min | $78,920 |
| Berlin Township | 4% | C− | B− | 25 min | $68,494 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Palmyra 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 Palmyra Township: questions
What is the median household income in Palmyra Township?
$72,361 (±$27,891) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Palmyra Township?
4.7%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Palmyra Township?
30 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Palmyra Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Honesdale (14%, 5 mi), Lackawaxen Township (7%, 7 mi), Texas Township (5%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Palmyra Township walkable?
Palmyra Township is more walkable than 63% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 6.8 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Palmyra Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Palmyra Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Palmyra 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.