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Perkasie grades A− for jobs and income and B for walkability. Employers in Perkasie report 2,726 jobs for 5,251 working residents. Only 7% stay in Perkasie for work; outside it, Philadelphia is the main destination (6%, 26 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Perkasie and work: the main findings
What’s behind Perkasie’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Perkasie is better than 80% of U.S. towns, #305 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Job access by car is its strongest input (ahead of 83% of U.S. towns); unemployment ranks lowest, though still above most U.S. towns (3.8%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on household income and the poverty rate and unemployment.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Perkasie could be anywhere from B to A+.
The places Perkasie commutes to
Where Perkasie clocks in
6% of workers
5% of workers
4% 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.
How many people are in Perkasie by day
On a workday 4,873 residents head out to work, 378 work right here, and 2,348 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,800 people are in Perkasie on a workday afternoon, 27% 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 2024, primary jobs.
What Perkasie’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Perkasie, 2014 → 2024: 2,564 → 2,726. 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 Perkasie’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Time on the road from Perkasie: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Perkasie workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,720 commuters (the 16% 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 Perkasie goes to work
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.
Perkasie is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Perkasie is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns, #452 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.6% across Pennsylvania.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 5,637 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). 2.4% of Perkasie households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Perkasie’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Perkasie is 802nd among 2,867 U.S. towns of 6,500 to 12,600
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Pimmit Hills VA | 6,589 | $173K | 1.6% | 1.3% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Braddock VA | 6,536 | $212K | 0.9% | 1.0% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 19 | West Vincent Township PA | 6,885 | $203K | 1.4% | 0.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 54 | Bethel Township PA | 9,774 | $177K | 1.8% | 2.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 59 | Upper Nazareth Township PA | 8,521 | $122K | 1.2% | 0.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 800 | Cumberland IN | 8,066 | $87K | 6.4% | 3.7% | 1% | A− |
| 801 | Caldwell NJ | 9,375 | $97K | 8.0% | 4.4% | 4% | A− |
| 802 | Perkasie PA | 9,312 | $94K | 6.7% | 3.8% | 7% | A− |
| 803 | Holmen WI | 12,105 | $80K | 6.0% | 0.3% | 9% | A− |
| 804 | Brookfield WI | 6,515 | $89K | 7.9% | 3.6% | 3% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,867 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 6% | 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 Perkasie, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Work in the towns next to Perkasie
The biggest share goes to Hilltown Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Perkasie workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perkasie | – | A− | B | 29 min | $93,845 |
| East Rockhill Township | under 2% | A− | D | 38 min | $134,492 |
| Sellersville | under 2% | A | A− | 24 min | $95,022 |
| Hilltown Township | 3% | A | B | 31 min | $133,690 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Perkasie’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 Perkasie: questions
What is the median household income in Perkasie?
$93,845 (±$10,968) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Perkasie?
6.7%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Perkasie?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Perkasie work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Philadelphia (6%, 26 mi), West Rockhill Township (5%, 3 mi), Doylestown Township (4%, 10 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Perkasie walkable?
Perkasie is more walkable than 65% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.8 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Perkasie without a car?
1% 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 Perkasie, from the people who make the trip.
More of Perkasie
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.