Most of Pine Township commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
There are 234 jobs in Pine Township for 633 working residents. Pine Township grades C+ for jobs and income and D for walkability. Home is the office for 6% of workers, where Pennsylvania as a whole has 16%.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
How Pine Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Pine Township is better than 41% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Pine Township’s grade up (7.7%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 27% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (9.7%) is left out: Pine 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, Pine Township could be anywhere from C to B.
How a workday changes Pine Township
On a workday 600 residents head out to work, 33 work right here, and 201 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,400 people are in Pine Township on a workday afternoon, 22% 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.
11% of working residents work in White Township
Where Pine Township clocks in
7% of workers
5% 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.
In Pine Township, 60% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pine Township, 2013 → 2023: 190 → 234. 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.
The trip to work from Pine Township: about 29 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 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 661 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.
How many miles Pine Township commutes
About 29% 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 Township is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pine Township is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 1.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 3.5.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 704 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). 2.8% 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.
How Pine Township ranks: 2,751st of 5,656 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 36 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,749 | Washington Township IN | 1,366 | $82K | 11.9% | 4.4% | 3% | C+ |
| 2,750 | Watson NY | 1,767 | $69K | 8.6% | 2.7% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,751 | Pine Township PA | 1,837 | $69K | 7.7% | 9.7% | 5% | C+ |
| 2,752 | Donegal Township PA | 2,379 | $80K | 3.3% | 11.2% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,753 | Leipsic OH | 2,167 | $68K | 16.1% | 2.6% | 12% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | 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 Pine Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Work in the towns next to Pine Township
The biggest share goes to Cherryhill Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Pine Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Township | – | C+ | D | 29 min | $69,375 |
| Green Township | under 2% | C | D− | 37 min | $60,274 |
| Cherryhill Township | 3% | C+ | C+ | 25 min | $66,746 |
| Buffington Township | 2% | C | D− | 22 min | $65,662 |
| Barr Township | under 2% | B | B− | 28 min | $78,036 |
Same-state neighbors only. 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?
$69,375 (±$6,952) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pine Township?
7.7%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pine Township?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pine Township work?
5% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are White Township (11%, 12 mi), Indiana (7%, 13 mi), Johnstown (5%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pine Township walkable?
Pine Township is more walkable than 9% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pine 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 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.