East Oriental Covered Bridge · Photo: JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD · CC BY-SA 3.0Perry Township has lower unemployment (1.2%) than 93% of U.S. towns
Jobs and income earn Perry Township B+; getting around on foot earns it B. Home is the office for 6% of workers, where Pennsylvania as a whole has 16%. Only 5% work in Perry Township; the top destination outside it is Penn Township (7%, 10 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Perry Township: the figures worth knowing
How Perry Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Perry Township is better than 66% of U.S. towns. Unemployment holds Perry Township’s grade up; job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 23% of U.S. towns). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Perry Township could be anywhere from B to B+.
In Perry Township, 34% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
516 jobs are based in Perry Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Perry Township, 2013 → 2023: 318 → 516. 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 Perry Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many people are in Perry Township by day
On a workday 829 residents head out to work, 45 work right here, and 471 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,700 people are in Perry Township on a workday afternoon, 18% fewer than live here.
0.59 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.
Out of Perry Township to work: where people go
Where Perry Township clocks in
7% of workers
6% of workers
3% 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.
Time on the road from Perry Township: about 23 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Perry Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,043 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 commute from Perry Township, by distance
About 18% 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.
Few in Perry Township walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Perry Township is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 8.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 5.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,104 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). 7.0% of Perry Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Perry Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Perry Township is 1,468th of 5,793 U.S. towns of 1,400 to 2,800
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 31 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 57 | West Conshohocken PA | 1,498 | $139K | 5.0% | 1.6% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,466 | Hopewell Township OH | 1,435 | $96K | 7.7% | 7.2% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,467 | Polk Township OH | 1,965 | $77K | 4.5% | 1.2% | 1% | B+ |
| 1,468 | Perry Township PA | 2,045 | $65K | 3.3% | 1.2% | 5% | B+ |
| 1,469 | Churubusco IN | 1,853 | $65K | 9.2% | 1.8% | 12% | B+ |
| 1,470 | Waterford NY | 1,999 | $73K | 10.6% | 2.8% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,793 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Perry Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Next door to Perry Township
The biggest share goes to West Perry Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Perry Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perry Township | – | B+ | B | 23 min | $65,236 |
| Susquehanna Township | under 3% | B− | B− | 37 min | $70,833 |
| Monroe Township | under 3% | C | C | 33 min | $67,000 |
| Chapman Township | under 3% | C+ | B | 24 min | $81,016 |
| Washington Township | under 3% | C+ | B− | 25 min | $74,519 |
| West Perry Township | 3% | C | B− | 31 min | $61,528 |
| Franklin Township | 3% | C+ | B− | 23 min | $51,167 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Perry 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 Perry Township: questions
What is the median household income in Perry Township?
$65,236 (±$3,781) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Perry Township?
3.3%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Perry Township?
23 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Perry Township work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Penn Township (7%, 10 mi), Middleburg (6%, 7 mi), Spring Township (3%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Perry Township walkable?
Perry Township is more walkable than 59% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Perry 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 Perry Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Perry 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.