Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0Household incomes in Pine Grove are lower than in 67% of U.S. towns
Poverty touches 7.8% of residents (Pennsylvania 11.7%). Jobs and income earn Pine Grove B−; getting around on foot earns it A−. About one in seven stay in Pine Grove for work; outside it, Pottsville is the main destination (4%, 13 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Pine Grove apart on work
Jobs in Pine Grove have more than doubled in ten years
Jobs based in Pine Grove went from 568 in 2013 to 1,141 in 2023, +101%. The jobs ↓
Pine Grove makes and builds things
56% of the jobs based in Pine Grove are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Pine Grove residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 30%. The jobs ↓
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 962 working residents, small shifts move the shares; a jump in jobs can partly be a big employer changing how it reports its locations.
Why Pine Grove gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Pine Grove is better than 48% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Pine Grove’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($64,082, U.S. $80,734).
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Pine Grove could be anywhere from C to A−.
Goods, not services: 56% of the jobs in Pine Grove
1,141 jobs are based in Pine Grove.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pine Grove, 2013 → 2023: 568 → 1,141. 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 Grove’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The daily flow of workers through Pine Grove
On a workday 809 residents head out to work, 153 work right here, and 988 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.19 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Pine Grove goes to work
Where Pine Grove clocks in
4% of workers
4% of workers
2% 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.
Getting to work from Pine Grove takes about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pine Grove workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 899 commuters (the 10% 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.
Pine Grove’s commute, mile by mile
About 15% 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.
Pine Grove is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pine Grove is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 3.8% 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 994 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). 9.9% of Pine Grove households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pine Grove’s commuters take a bus or train.
Pine Grove next to U.S. towns of 1,500 to 2,800: 2,256th of 5,148 on jobs and income
| # | 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 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 26 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 87 | Lowhill Township PA | 2,331 | $144K | 2.7% | 1.5% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,254 | Holley NY | 1,726 | $65K | 10.6% | 3.8% | 6% | B− |
| 2,255 | Glen Rock PA | 2,129 | $87K | 8.2% | 8.8% | 1% | B− |
| 2,256 | Pine Grove PA | 2,077 | $64K | 7.8% | 4.3% | 16% | B− |
| 2,257 | Tuftonboro NH | 2,678 | $101K | 4.0% | 6.0% | 11% | B− |
| 2,258 | Brown Township OH | 1,879 | $74K | 10.4% | 2.5% | 5% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,148 | 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 Pine Grove, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
The towns around Pine Grove
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Pine Grove workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Grove | – | B− | A− | 26 min | $64,082 |
| Ravine | under 2% | — | — | 43 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Ravine: 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 Grove’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 Grove: questions
What is the median household income in Pine Grove?
$64,082 (±$4,744) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pine Grove?
7.8%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pine Grove?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pine Grove work?
16% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Pottsville (4%, 13 mi), Pine Grove Township (4%, 2 mi), East Hanover Township (2%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pine Grove walkable?
Pine Grove is more walkable than 81% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 9.8 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pine Grove without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 10% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pine Grove, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pine Grove
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.