Pinegrove Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
7% of workers work from home, against 16% across Pennsylvania. There are 86 jobs in Pinegrove Township; 487 of its residents have a job. Pinegrove Township grades 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
The commute and the jobs: Pinegrove Township in brief
Pinegrove Township is a place people come home to
There are 86 jobs based in Pinegrove Township, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Pinegrove Township has about 950 people in it, 30% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Pinegrove Township workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 33 minutes each way, against 26 across Pennsylvania. Over a year that’s about 253 hours of commuting, 54 more than the state’s typical worker. 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 487 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Why Pinegrove Township gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty and job access, Pinegrove Township is better than 35% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Pinegrove Township’s grade up (8.7%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 10% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (1.7%) is left out: Pinegrove 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, Pinegrove Township could be anywhere from D to B.
Pinegrove Township by day and by night
On a workday 478 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 77 people come in from elsewhere.
About 950 people are in Pinegrove Township on a workday afternoon, 30% 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.
How long Pinegrove Township spends getting to work: about 33 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 10.4 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Pinegrove Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 580 commuters (the 7% 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.
16% of working residents work in Oil City
Where Pinegrove Township clocks in
16% 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.
74% of the jobs in Pinegrove Township pay over $3,333 a month
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Pinegrove Township, 2013 → 2023: 107 → 86. 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 Pinegrove Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where in the region Pinegrove Township works
About 28% 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.
Most trips from Pinegrove Township start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Pinegrove Township is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 0.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 3.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 625 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). 1.7% of Pinegrove Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Pinegrove Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Pinegrove Township is 2,751st of 5,400 U.S. towns of 900 to 1,800 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 17 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,749 | Macon Township MI | 1,314 | $79K | 17.8% | 5.6% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,750 | Bethany NY | 1,749 | $76K | 13.0% | 3.9% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,751 | Pinegrove Township PA | 1,348 | $77K | 8.7% | 1.7% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,752 | Mapleton MN | 1,622 | $81K | 13.4% | 5.6% | 13% | C |
| 2,753 | Lewisburg OH | 1,734 | $75K | 21.6% | 3.9% | 10% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 5,400 | 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 Pinegrove Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
11% of Pinegrove Township works in a bordering town
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Pinegrove Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pinegrove Township | – | C+ | D | 33 min | $77,188 |
| President Township | under 2% | — | — | 33 min | — |
| Cranberry Township | 11% | C− | C− | 26 min | $60,977 |
| Washington Township | under 2% | C− | C− | 29 min | $55,781 |
| Ashland Township | under 2% | C− | B− | 25 min | $79,205 |
| Elk Township | under 2% | C− | D | 28 min | $55,402 |
Same-state neighbors only. President Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Cranberry Township. Darker towns draw more of Pinegrove 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 Pinegrove Township: questions
What is the median household income in Pinegrove Township?
$77,188 (±$11,421) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Pinegrove Township?
8.7%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Pinegrove Township?
33 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Pinegrove Township work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Oil City (16%, 10 mi), Cranberry Township (11%, 8 mi), Franklin (8%, 15 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Pinegrove Township walkable?
Pinegrove Township is more walkable than 5% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 3.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Pinegrove Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Pinegrove Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Pinegrove 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.