Photo: Mvincec · Public domainRayne Township has 0.4 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
Rayne Township has 436 jobs, against 1,116 working residents. The two grades for Rayne Township are D for jobs and income and C for walkability. Only 6% stay in Rayne Township for work; outside it, White Township is the main destination (21%, 4 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Rayne Township apart on work
A lot of Rayne Township works one town over
26% of working residents work in a town that borders Rayne Township: White Township (21%), East Mahoning Township (3%) and Cherryhill Township (2%). Next door ↓
Rayne Township makes and builds things
35% of the jobs based in Rayne Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Rayne Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 21%. 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.
How Rayne Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Rayne Township is better than 15% of U.S. towns, #992 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Rayne Township’s grade.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Rayne Township could be anywhere from D− to B.
Rayne Township makes things: 35% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rayne Township, 2013 → 2023: 519 → 436. 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 Rayne Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
A workday in Rayne Township: who goes, who stays, who comes
On a workday 1,049 residents head out to work, 67 work right here, and 369 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,100 people are in Rayne Township on a workday afternoon, 25% 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.
Out of Rayne Township to work: where people go
Where Rayne Township clocks in
12% of workers
3% 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.
A commute of about 29 minutes in Rayne Township
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rayne Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 939 commuters (the 16% 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 Rayne Township commutes
About 20% 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.
In Rayne Township, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Rayne Township is more walkable than 26% of U.S. towns, #854 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 4.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,123 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 Rayne Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Rayne Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Rayne Township is 4,137th of 4,969 U.S. towns of 1,900 to 3,700 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 29 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 64 | Churchill PA | 3,014 | $107K | 1.9% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 78 | Thornbury Township PA | 3,165 | $172K | 2.4% | 2.5% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 4,135 | Winters TX | 2,263 | $49K | 19.0% | 3.7% | 20% | D |
| 4,136 | Union Township IN | 2,421 | $57K | 25.3% | 5.6% | 2% | D |
| 4,137 | Rayne Township PA | 2,738 | $61K | 16.4% | 7.0% | 6% | D |
| 4,138 | Grissom AFB IN | 2,977 | $55K | 14.4% | 7.5% | 5% | D |
| 4,139 | Harbor OR | 2,437 | $55K | 10.8% | 3.5% | 18% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 4,969 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Rayne Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Work next door: 26% of Rayne Township’s workers
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Rayne Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rayne Township | – | D | C | 29 min | $60,582 |
| Cherryhill Township | 2% | C+ | C+ | 25 min | $66,746 |
| White Township | 21% | C+ | B | 24 min | $66,186 |
| Washington Township | under 2% | C+ | D− | 28 min | $65,938 |
| East Mahoning Township | 3% | — | — | 35 min | — |
| Dixonville | under 2% | — | — | 48 min | — |
| Green Township | under 2% | C | D− | 37 min | $60,274 |
Same-state neighbors only. East Mahoning Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Dixonville: a Census-designated place inside a larger town, graded as part of it. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to White Township. Darker towns draw more of Rayne 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 Rayne Township: questions
What is the median household income in Rayne Township?
$60,582 (±$13,118) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rayne Township?
16.4%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rayne Township?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 16% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rayne Township work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are White Township (21%, 4 mi), Indiana (12%, 7 mi), Pittsburgh (3%, 50 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Rayne Township walkable?
Rayne Township is more walkable than 26% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 4.2 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rayne 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 Rayne Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rayne 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.