Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Most of Roulette Township commutes out: there are 0.4 jobs for every working resident
Measured by household income, Roulette Township is behind 87% of U.S. towns. Roulette Township has 178 jobs, against 434 working residents. Jobs and income earn Roulette Township D−; getting around on foot earns it C−.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Roulette Township, in a few figures
Few Roulette Township workers work from home
Only 4% of workers work from home, against 16% across Pennsylvania. Almost everyone here travels to a job. Time on the road ↓
Commutes from Roulette Township are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 26 across Pennsylvania. That’s about 46 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 434 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Roulette Township’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Roulette Township is better than 5% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Roulette Township’s grade up (16.8%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 4% of U.S. towns).
Unemployment (5.7%) is left out: Roulette 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, Roulette Township could be anywhere from D− to C−.
From Roulette Township, about 20 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Roulette Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 412 commuters (the 4% 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.
The workday shuffle in and out of Roulette Township
On a workday 384 residents head out to work, 50 work right here, and 128 people come in from elsewhere.
About 800 people are in Roulette Township on a workday afternoon, 24% 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.
15% of working residents work in Coudersport
Where Roulette Township clocks in
15% of workers
10% 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.
Jobs in Roulette Township: what the 178 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Roulette Township, 2013 → 2023: 158 → 178. 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 Roulette Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Roulette Township to work
About 23% 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 Roulette Township, the car does most of the work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Roulette Township is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Roulette 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 427 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). 7.7% of Roulette Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Roulette Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Roulette Township next to U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,827 | Greenwood Township MI | 1,132 | $55K | 20.7% | 12.0% | <1% | D− |
| 2,828 | Butler Township OH | 1,296 | $51K | 28.0% | 0.0% | 2% | D− |
| 2,829 | Roulette Township PA | 1,055 | $51K | 16.8% | 5.7% | 12% | D− |
| 2,830 | Munday TX | 1,190 | $56K | 19.6% | 1.8% | 17% | D− |
| 2,831 | Butterfield Park NM | 1,119 | $34K | 33.4% | 20.2% | <1% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | 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 Roulette Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Roulette Township and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Eulalia Township (9%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Roulette Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roulette Township | – | D− | C− | 20 min | $50,667 |
| Keating Township | under 2% | — | — | 23 min | — |
| Eulalia Township | 9% | — | — | 19 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Keating Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Eulalia Township: not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Roulette 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 Roulette Township: questions
What is the median household income in Roulette Township?
$50,667 (±$8,805) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Roulette Township?
16.8%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Roulette Township?
20 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Roulette Township work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Coudersport (15%, 6 mi), Port Allegany (10%, 7 mi), Eulalia Township (9%, 4 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Roulette Township walkable?
Roulette Township is more walkable than 19% of U.S. towns (Walkability C−): an EPA walkability index of 5.3 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Roulette Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Roulette Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Roulette 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.