Photo: Smallbones · Public domainAt 2.0%, unemployment in Paradise Township is lower than in 85% of U.S. towns
About one in ten work in Paradise Township; the top destination outside it is Leacock Township (10%, 4 miles). The two grades for Paradise Township are A for jobs and income and B for walkability. Household incomes here are higher than in 82% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Paradise Township stands out on work
Paradise Township makes and builds things
59% of the jobs based in Paradise Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Paradise Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 35%. The jobs ↓
A lot of Paradise Township works one town over
25% of working residents work in a town that borders Paradise Township: Leacock Township (10%), East Lampeter Township (6%) and Salisbury Township (5%). Next door ↓
A young workforce
31% of Paradise Township’s working residents are 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Paradise Township
Unemployment is its strongest input; job access by car ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (ahead of 64% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Paradise Township could be anywhere from B to A+.
Paradise Township works in goods: 59% of its jobs
1,650 jobs are based in Paradise Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Paradise Township, 2013 → 2023: 1,454 → 1,650. 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 Paradise Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The workday shuffle in and out of Paradise Township
On a workday 1,911 residents head out to work, 199 work right here, and 1,451 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.78 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Out of Paradise Township to work: where people go
Where Paradise Township clocks in
Lines 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.
Each way, about 24 minutes from Paradise Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Paradise Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,300 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 many miles Paradise Township commutes
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.
In Paradise Township, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Paradise Township is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns, #514 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 5.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,517 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). 25.8% of Paradise Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Paradise Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Paradise Township is 560th of 3,375 U.S. towns of 4,100 to 7,800 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | West Vincent Township PA | 6,885 | $203K | 1.4% | 0.8% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Edgmont Township PA | 4,706 | $137K | 2.4% | 1.1% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 61 | Pocopson Township PA | 4,480 | $230K | 1.3% | 2.2% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 558 | Mackinaw Township IL | 4,231 | $103K | 6.9% | 1.2% | 12% | A |
| 559 | Liverpool Township OH | 5,905 | $128K | 5.0% | 4.2% | 8% | A |
| 560 | Paradise Township PA | 5,799 | $107K | 7.0% | 2.0% | 9% | A |
| 561 | Palm Springs North FL | 5,410 | $99K | 10.4% | 2.4% | 4% | A |
| 562 | Johnson Lane NV | 6,467 | $121K | 3.3% | 0.8% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 3,375 | Medina TX | 4,226 | $22K | 53.8% | 10.1% | 4% | 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 Paradise Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Next door is work for 25% of Paradise Township
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Paradise Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paradise Township | – | A | B | 24 min | $107,188 |
| Leacock Township | 10% | A | A− | 21 min | $83,260 |
| Soudersburg | under 3% | — | — | 21 min | — |
| East Lampeter Township | 6% | B+ | B | 25 min | $87,361 |
| Salisbury Township | 5% | A | B | 27 min | $92,816 |
| Strasburg Township | 2% | B+ | C+ | 29 min | $94,242 |
| Bart Township | 2% | B+ | B | 22 min | $75,000 |
| Eden Township | under 3% | A− | B | 27 min | $91,250 |
Same-state neighbors only. Soudersburg: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Leacock Township. Darker towns draw more of Paradise 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 Paradise Township: questions
What is the median household income in Paradise Township?
$107,188 (±$15,553) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Paradise Township?
7.0%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Paradise Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Paradise Township work?
9% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Leacock Township (10%, 4 mi), East Lampeter Township (6%, 7 mi), Salisbury Township (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Paradise Township walkable?
Paradise Township is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.5 out of 20, and 7% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Paradise Township without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 26% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Paradise Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Paradise 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.