Eckman, Sam, Covered Bridge No. 92 · Photo: Ruhrfisch · CC BY-SA 3.0Pine Township has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Household incomes here are lower than in 80% of U.S. towns. Pine Township has 47 jobs, and 443 of its residents work somewhere. The two grades for Pine 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 and commuting in Pine Township, in brief
Inside Pine Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Pine Township is better than 27% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Pine Township’s grade up (9.6%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($55,667, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (4.5%) is left out: Pine Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Pine Township could be anywhere from D to B−.
The daily commute in and out of Pine Township
On a workday 440 residents head out to work, 3 work right here, and 44 people come in from elsewhere.
About 630 people are in Pine Township on a workday afternoon, 39% 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.
9% of working residents work in Mahoning Township
Where Pine Township clocks in
9% of workers
9% of workers
8% 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.
Services make up most of the work in Pine Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pine Township, 2013 → 2023: 29 → 47. 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 Pine Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Pine Township’s commute takes about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pine Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 283 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.
Miles to work from Pine Township
About 21% 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.
Driving is how Pine Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pine Township is near the bottom of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Pine 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 336 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). 11.1% of Pine Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pine Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Pine Township is 1,840th of 3,133 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,838 | Valley Falls KS | 1,055 | $47K | 5.9% | 1.8% | 9% | C |
| 1,839 | Echo Township MI | 1,009 | $71K | 8.5% | 4.8% | 0% | C |
| 1,840 | Pine Township PA | 1,023 | $56K | 9.6% | 4.5% | 1% | C |
| 1,841 | Clear Lake WA | 1,093 | $72K | 14.0% | 1.9% | 1% | C |
| 1,842 | Sloan IA | 1,078 | $68K | 13.9% | 8.4% | 7% | 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 Pine Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Next door is work for 11% of Pine Township
The biggest share goes to Millville (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Pine Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Township | – | C | D− | 30 min | $55,667 |
| Greenwood Township | 3% | C+ | C | 24 min | $68,167 |
| Jackson Township | under 3% | — | — | 33 min | — |
| Iola | under 3% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Millville | 8% | — | — | 20 min | — |
| Jordan Township | under 3% | — | — | 33 min | — |
| Madison Township | under 3% | C+ | C+ | 25 min | $76,500 |
| Franklin Township | under 3% | — | — | 30 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Jackson Township, Millville, Jordan Township and Franklin Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Iola: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Pine 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 Pine Township: questions
What is the median household income in Pine Township?
$55,667 (±$11,067) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pine Township?
9.6%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pine Township?
30 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pine Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Mahoning Township (9%, 16 mi), Bloomsburg (9%, 13 mi), Millville (8%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pine Township walkable?
Pine Township is near the bottom of U.S. towns (Walkability D−): an EPA walkability index of 3.2 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pine Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 11% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pine Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pine 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.