Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Most of Point Marion commutes out: there are 0.1 jobs for every working resident
Jobs and income earn Point Marion D; getting around on foot earns it A−. Point Marion has 39 jobs, and 488 of its residents work somewhere. Hardly any work in Point Marion; the top destination outside it is Morgantown (17%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Point Marion and work: the main findings
Jobs & income in Point Marion: the grade in detail
On income, poverty and job access, Point Marion is better than 10% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Point Marion’s grade up ($60,298, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (25.2%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (1.8%) is left out: Point Marion’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, Point Marion could be anywhere from D− to C.
How a workday changes Point Marion
On a workday 486 residents head out to work, 2 work right here, and 37 people come in from elsewhere.
About 650 people are in Point Marion on a workday afternoon, 41% 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.
Where Point Marion’s working residents head each day
Where Point Marion clocks in
17% 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.
The kinds of work in Point Marion
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Point Marion, 2013 → 2023: 104 → 39. 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 Point Marion’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How long Point Marion spends getting to work: about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Point Marion workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 465 commuters (the 11% 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 far it is to work from Point Marion
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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Point Marion
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Point Marion is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 7.8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 7.3.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 523 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). 11.5% of Point Marion households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Point Marion’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500, Point Marion ranks 3,077th of 3,771 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 8 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,075 | New Sharon IA | 1,247 | $49K | 14.4% | 3.8% | 3% | D |
| 3,076 | Philadelphia NY | 1,125 | $70K | 32.5% | 4.4% | 2% | D |
| 3,077 | Point Marion PA | 1,094 | $60K | 25.2% | 1.8% | <1% | D |
| 3,078 | Chase Township MI | 1,256 | $62K | 17.7% | 9.1% | 1% | D |
| 3,079 | Lake Holcombe WI | 1,010 | $63K | 16.4% | 3.7% | 2% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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 Point Marion, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
The towns around Point Marion
The biggest share goes to Springhill Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Point Marion workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Point Marion | – | D | A− | 28 min | $60,298 |
| Springhill Township | 3% | D− | D− | 28 min | $44,700 |
| Dunkard Township | under 3% | D | D− | 32 min | $56,964 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Point Marion’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 Point Marion: questions
What is the median household income in Point Marion?
$60,298 (±$19,666) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Point Marion?
25.2%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Point Marion?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 11% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Point Marion work?
<1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Morgantown (17%, 7 mi), Georges Township (5%, 10 mi), North Union Township (4%, 17 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Point Marion walkable?
Point Marion is more walkable than 78% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 7.3 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Point Marion without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 12% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Point Marion, from the people who make the trip.
More of Point Marion
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.