Photo: Ruhrfisch · CC BY-SA 3.0Piatt Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
6% of workers have no commute at all; Pennsylvania has 16%. There are 89 jobs in Piatt Township for 424 working residents. The two grades for Piatt Township are C+ for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Piatt Township, in a few figures
Piatt Township is a place people come home to
There are 89 jobs based in Piatt Township, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Piatt Township has about 700 people in it, 32% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Piatt Township workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 37 minutes each way, against 26 across Pennsylvania. Over a year that’s about 284 hours of commuting, 84 more than the state’s typical worker. Every town next door averages less (19 to 27 minutes). Time on the road ↓
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; with 424 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Inside Piatt Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Piatt Township is better than 40% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Piatt Township’s grade up (9.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 37% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.8%) is left out: Piatt 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, Piatt Township could be anywhere from C− to B+.
The workday shuffle in and out of Piatt Township
On a workday 421 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 86 people come in from elsewhere.
About 700 people are in Piatt Township on a workday afternoon, 32% 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 2023, primary jobs.
From Piatt Township, about 37 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Piatt Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 333 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.
21% of working residents work in Williamsport
Where Piatt Township clocks in
21% of workers
8% of workers
6% 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.
Making and building: 31% of jobs based in Piatt Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Piatt Township, 2013 → 2023: 167 → 89. 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 Piatt Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Piatt Township, by distance
About 26% 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.
In Piatt Township, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Piatt Township is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Piatt Township near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 354 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). 3.3% of Piatt Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Piatt Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Piatt Township places 1,362nd of 3,133 on jobs and income among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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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| 7 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,360 | Bronson Township MI | 1,306 | $78K | 8.5% | 2.3% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,361 | Gulich Township PA | 1,188 | $82K | 9.8% | 3.3% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,362 | Piatt Township PA | 1,032 | $68K | 9.1% | 5.8% | 1% | C+ |
| 1,363 | Rome City IN | 1,317 | $71K | 11.8% | 4.9% | 2% | C+ |
| 1,364 | Houston PA | 1,126 | $65K | 20.0% | 3.0% | 2% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Piatt Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Piatt Township and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Piatt Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Piatt Township | – | C+ | D | 37 min | $67,885 |
| Woodward Township | under 2% | B− | D | 27 min | $72,989 |
| Nippenose Township | under 2% | — | — | 20 min | — |
| Porter Township | under 2% | C+ | B+ | 19 min | $73,920 |
| Susquehanna Township | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Mifflin Township | under 2% | C | D | 25 min | $65,865 |
Same-state neighbors only. Nippenose Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Susquehanna Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Piatt 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 Piatt Township: questions
What is the median household income in Piatt Township?
$67,885 (±$18,375) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Piatt Township?
9.1%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Piatt Township?
37 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Piatt Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Williamsport (21%, 9 mi), Jersey Shore (8%, 4 mi), Loyalsock Township (6%, 12 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Piatt Township walkable?
Piatt Township is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.7 out of 20, and <1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Piatt Township 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 Piatt Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Piatt 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.