Photo: Jakec · CC BY-SA 4.0A job hub: Ringtown has 1.8 jobs per working resident, and 531 people come in to work
The trip to work takes 30 minutes on average, where Pennsylvania has 26 and the U.S. 26. Employers in Ringtown report 533 jobs; 294 of its residents have a job. Hardly any work in Ringtown itself; outside it, Hazle Township draws the most (13%, 14 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Ringtown stands out on work
Ringtown makes and builds things
93% of the jobs based in Ringtown are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Ringtown residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 26%. The jobs ↓
Ringtown is where the jobs are
Ringtown has 533 jobs, 1.8 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Ringtown than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Ringtown fell from 857 in 2013 to 533 in 2023, −38%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. 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 294 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
A place that makes things: 93% of Ringtown’s jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Ringtown, 2013 → 2023: 857 → 533. 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 Ringtown’s own residents hold wherever they work.
In and out of Ringtown on a workday
On a workday 292 residents head out to work and 2 work right here.
About 960 people are in Ringtown on a workday afternoon, 33% more 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 Ringtown’s workforce comes from
Where Ringtown clocks in
7% 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.
Ringtown’s commute takes about 30 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Ringtown workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 268 commuters (the 10% 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 Ringtown
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.
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 Ringtown: questions
What is the median household income in Ringtown?
$87,955 (±$28,367) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Ringtown?
2.2%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Ringtown?
30 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Ringtown work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hazle Township (13%, 14 mi), East Union Township (7%, 6 mi), West Hazleton (5%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Can you get around Ringtown without a car?
4% 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 Ringtown, from the people who make the trip.
More of Ringtown
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.