Searight's Fulling Mill · Photo: Generic1139 · CC BY-SA 3.0Perryopolis’ household incomes are lower than in 72% of U.S. towns
The poverty rate is 12.0%, where Pennsylvania as a whole has 11.7%. Perryopolis grades C+ for jobs and income and B for walkability. Only 7% stay in Perryopolis for work; outside it, Perry Township is the main destination (6%, 1 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Perryopolis stands out on work
How Perryopolis earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Perryopolis is better than 39% of U.S. towns. Job access by car holds Perryopolis’ grade up (ahead of 59% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($61,319, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (4.7%) is left out: Perryopolis’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, Perryopolis could be anywhere from C− to B.
In Perryopolis, services account for most jobs
365 jobs are based in Perryopolis.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Perryopolis, 2013 → 2023: 463 → 365. 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 Perryopolis’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Perryopolis: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 568 residents head out to work, 43 work right here, and 322 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Perryopolis on a workday afternoon, 15% fewer than live here.
0.60 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 Perryopolis to work: where people go
Where Perryopolis clocks in
6% of workers
4% 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.
About 28 minutes each way, about the PA average
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Perryopolis workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 649 commuters (the 11% 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.
Short hops and long hauls from Perryopolis
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 Perryopolis walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Perryopolis is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.9% 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 733 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). 3.0% of Perryopolis households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Perryopolis’ commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Perryopolis is 2,990th of 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200
| # | 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% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,988 | Crystal Springs FL | 1,298 | $62K | 12.6% | 6.8% | <1% | C+ |
| 2,989 | San Ysidro NM | 2,118 | $89K | 8.6% | 15.8% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,990 | Perryopolis PA | 1,599 | $61K | 12.0% | 4.7% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,991 | Stevenson Township IL | 1,138 | $93K | 10.7% | 0.0% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,992 | Kiantone NY | 1,351 | $81K | 14.2% | 11.0% | 3% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Perryopolis, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
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 Perryopolis: questions
What is the median household income in Perryopolis?
$61,319 (±$5,733) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Perryopolis?
12.0%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Perryopolis?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Perryopolis work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Perry Township (6%, 1 mi), Uniontown (4%, 13 mi), Rostraver Township (4%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Perryopolis walkable?
Perryopolis is more walkable than 56% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 9.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Perryopolis without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Perryopolis, from the people who make the trip.
More of Perryopolis
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.