Photo: Paul Comstock · CC BY 2.0Royalton has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.0 for each
24% of workers have no commute at all (Pennsylvania 16%). Royalton has 24 jobs, and 506 of its residents work somewhere. For jobs and income Royalton is better than 55% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns (A).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Royalton apart on work
Royalton is a place people come home to
There are 24 jobs based in Royalton, about one for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Royalton has about 650 people in it, 43% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of Royalton works from home
24% of Royalton workers work from home, against 16% across Pennsylvania. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2024, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 506 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
The figures behind Royalton’s Jobs & income grade
Job access by car holds Royalton’s grade up (ahead of 81% of U.S. towns); household income pulls it down ($67,500, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (0.0%) is left out: Royalton’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, Royalton could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
Who leaves Royalton for work, and who comes in
On a workday 502 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 20 people come in from elsewhere.
About 650 people are in Royalton on a workday afternoon, 43% 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 2024, primary jobs.
About 23 minutes to work from Royalton
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Royalton workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 379 commuters (the 24% 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.
13% of working residents work in Derry Township
Where Royalton clocks in
13% of workers
8% of workers
8% 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.
In Royalton, 58% of jobs are in factories, building or farming
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Royalton, 2014 → 2024: 35 → 24. 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 2024.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Royalton’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Royalton to work
About 15% 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 2024.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Royalton is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 496 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 65% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 5.5% of Royalton households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 1% of Royalton’s commuters take a bus or train.
Royalton next to U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500: 1,088th 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% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 8 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,086 | Union Township PA | 1,244 | $85K | 7.9% | 4.2% | 1% | B− |
| 1,087 | Granville IL | 1,325 | $71K | 5.3% | 4.7% | 5% | B− |
| 1,088 | Royalton PA | 1,133 | $68K | 11.9% | 0.0% | 1% | B− |
| 1,089 | New Beaver PA | 1,343 | $61K | 6.6% | 3.5% | 6% | B− |
| 1,090 | Pound WI | 1,435 | $84K | 7.2% | 3.4% | 3% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 1% | 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 Royalton, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Royalton and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Londonderry Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Royalton workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royalton | – | B− | A | 23 min | $67,500 |
| Middletown | 3% | B− | A | 22 min | $55,765 |
| Londonderry Township | 4% | A | B | 24 min | $91,905 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Royalton’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 2024, 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 Royalton: questions
What is the median household income in Royalton?
$67,500 (±$11,614) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Royalton?
11.9%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Royalton?
23 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 24% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Royalton work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Derry Township (13%, 7 mi), Harrisburg (8%, 10 mi), Lower Swatara Township (8%, 3 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Royalton walkable?
Royalton is more walkable than 91% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 9.6 out of 20, and 8% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Royalton without a car?
1% of commuters take transit and 6% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Royalton, from the people who make the trip.
More of Royalton
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2024, 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.