Photo: Nyttend · Public domainRose Township at work: jobs, income and the commute
9% of workers have no commute at all; Pennsylvania has 16%. The two grades for Rose Township are C for jobs and income and C for walkability. Only 3% work in Rose Township; the top destination outside it is Brookville (25%, 2 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Where Rose Township stands out on work
A lot of Rose Township works one town over
35% of working residents work in a town that borders Rose Township: Brookville (25%) and Pine Creek Township (10%). Next door ↓
Rose Township makes and builds things
58% of the jobs based in Rose Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Rose Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 29%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Rose Township are quick
The average trip to work takes 18 minutes, against 26 across Pennsylvania. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical Pennsylvania 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 466 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Rose Township
On income, poverty and job access, Rose Township is better than 32% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Rose Township’s grade up (9.1%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down.
Unemployment (1.5%) is left out: Rose 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, Rose Township could be anywhere from D to B.
In Rose Township, 58% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
398 jobs are based in Rose Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rose Township, 2013 → 2023: 307 → 398. 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 Rose Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Rose Township, about 18 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.8 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rose Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 545 commuters (the 9% 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.
Who works in Rose Township, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 451 residents head out to work, 15 work right here, and 383 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.
Where Rose Township goes to work
Where Rose Township clocks in
25% of workers
10% 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.
Near or far: the trip to work from Rose Township
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.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Most trips from Rose Township start in a car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Rose Township is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Rose Township near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 598 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). 3.8% of Rose Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Rose Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Rose Township next to U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500: 2,010th 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,008 | Trout Lake Township MN | 1,084 | $71K | 9.1% | 11.7% | 0% | C |
| 2,009 | Bratton Township OH | 1,381 | $53K | 2.4% | 0.0% | 0% | C |
| 2,010 | Rose Township PA | 1,118 | $71K | 9.1% | 1.5% | 3% | C |
| 2,011 | Russell GA | 1,089 | $61K | 18.0% | 1.5% | 1% | C |
| 2,012 | Kingsley MI | 1,455 | $67K | 9.2% | 4.4% | 5% | C |
| … | |||||||
| 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 Rose Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
35% of Rose Township works in a town next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Rose Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rose Township | – | C | C | 18 min | $70,673 |
| Knox Township | under 2% | — | — | 27 min | — |
| Brookville | 25% | C− | A | 19 min | $60,214 |
| Pine Creek Township | 10% | C | B− | 21 min | $67,500 |
| Eldred Township | under 2% | C | C | 24 min | $80,290 |
| Clover Township | under 2% | — | — | 25 min | — |
| Union Township | under 2% | — | — | 19 min | — |
| Beaver Township | under 2% | — | — | 30 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Knox Township: not graded. Clover Township, Union Township and Beaver Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Brookville. Darker towns draw more of Rose 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 Rose Township: questions
What is the median household income in Rose Township?
$70,673 (±$13,803) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rose Township?
9.1%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rose Township?
18 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 9% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rose Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Brookville (25%, 2 mi), Pine Creek Township (10%, 6 mi), DuBois (5%, 19 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Rose Township walkable?
Rose Township is more walkable than 31% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.0 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rose Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rose Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rose 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.