Photo: Allen C. · CC BY-SA 3.0Quemahoning Township’s household incomes are lower than in 75% of U.S. towns
Jobs & income C+: better than 38% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability B−: more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns.
Working residents average 24 minutes each way (Pennsylvania 26, U.S. 26). Only 7% work in Quemahoning Township; the top destination outside it is Somerset Township (11%, 9 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The short version on getting to work from Quemahoning Township
Quemahoning Township makes and builds things
65% of the jobs based in Quemahoning Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Quemahoning Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 22%. The jobs ↓
The jobs in Quemahoning Township pay better than its residents’ jobs
78% of the jobs based in Quemahoning Township pay over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year), against 53% of the jobs Quemahoning Township residents hold. 92% of the jobs here are held by people who live outside Quemahoning Township. 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 760 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Quemahoning Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Quemahoning Township is better than 38% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Quemahoning Township’s grade up (6.6%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($59,147, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (2.4%) is left out: Quemahoning 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, Quemahoning Township could be anywhere from C to B−.
Quemahoning Township makes things: 65% of its jobs are in goods
648 jobs are based in Quemahoning Township. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Quemahoning Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Quemahoning Township, 2013 → 2023: 651 → 648. 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.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 710 residents head out to work, 50 work right here, and 598 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 (0.85 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.
11% of working residents work in Somerset Township
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Quemahoning Township clocks in
11% of workers
8% of workers
7% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
About 24 minutes each way, quicker than most of Pennsylvania
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.6 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Quemahoning Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 749 commuters (the 14% who work from home are left out). Across Pennsylvania: 81% drive alone, 4% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
Half of Quemahoning Township commutes less than 14 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 22% 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.
Most trips from Quemahoning Township start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Quemahoning Township is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 5.0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 4.7.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 870 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). 1.6% of Quemahoning Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Quemahoning Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Quemahoning Township is 2,713th of 5,343 U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,400 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Quemahoning Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 2 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Hewlett Harbor NY | 1,332 | $250K | 1.9% | 7.2% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 34 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,711 | Juniata Township MI | 1,546 | $69K | 8.2% | 2.1% | 1% | C+ |
| 2,712 | Jackson NY | 1,701 | $77K | 7.5% | 2.4% | 4% | C+ |
| 2,713 | Quemahoning Township PA | 1,795 | $59K | 6.6% | 2.4% | 7% | C+ |
| 2,714 | Carr Township IN | 1,358 | $68K | 6.0% | 1.6% | 2% | C+ |
| 2,715 | Taft Southwest TX | 1,635 | $56K | 10.6% | 11.4% | 0% | C+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,343 | 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.
Quemahoning Township and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Jenner Township (3%). Darker towns draw more of Quemahoning Township’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Quemahoning Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quemahoning Township | – | C+ | B− | 24 min | $59,147 |
| Stonycreek Township | under 2% | C+ | C+ | 24 min | $73,438 |
| Jenner Township | 3% | C+ | C+ | 32 min | $58,605 |
| Shade Township | under 2% | C+ | D | 31 min | $66,774 |
| Lincoln Township | under 2% | B+ | C | 32 min | $81,364 |
| Paint Township | under 2% | C+ | D | 24 min | $61,364 |
| Conemaugh Township | 2% | C+ | D | 25 min | $75,459 |
| Hooversville | 2% | — | — | 22 min | — |
| Benson | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Hooversville and Benson: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
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 Quemahoning Township: questions
What is the median household income in Quemahoning Township?
$59,147 (±$3,128) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Quemahoning Township?
6.6%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Quemahoning Township?
24 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 14% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Quemahoning Township work?
7% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Somerset Township (11%, 9 mi), Somerset (8%, 10 mi), Richland Township (7%, 13 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Quemahoning Township walkable?
Quemahoning Township is more walkable than 45% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 4.7 out of 20, and 5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Quemahoning 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 Quemahoning Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Quemahoning 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.