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91 jobs are based in Rye Township for 1,093 working residents. Rye Township grades A for jobs and income and C for walkability. Household incomes here are higher than in 78% of U.S. towns.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Rye Township, in brief
Why Rye Township gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Rye Township is better than 90% of U.S. towns. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Rye Township’s grade. It also does well on household income and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Rye Township could be anywhere from B+ to A+.
The daily commute in and out of Rye Township
On a workday 1,084 residents head out to work, 9 work right here, and 82 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,300 people are in Rye Township on a workday afternoon, 44% 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.
13% of working residents work in Harrisburg
Where Rye Township clocks in
13% of workers
7% 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.
What Rye Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Rye Township, 2013 → 2023: 92 → 91. 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 Rye Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Rye Township, about 30 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Rye Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,070 commuters (the 18% 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 Rye Township
About 17% 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.
Few in Rye Township walk, bike or ride to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Rye Township is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 2.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 3.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,308 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). 2.6% of Rye Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Rye Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
How Rye Township ranks: 347th of 5,328 U.S. towns of 1,600 to 3,100
| # | 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+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 27 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 63 | Churchill PA | 3,014 | $107K | 1.9% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 345 | Paddock Lake WI | 2,974 | $88K | 2.9% | 2.5% | 5% | A |
| 346 | Lake Sherwood CA | 1,633 | $234K | 3.2% | 5.3% | 2% | A |
| 347 | Rye Township PA | 2,284 | $102K | 4.5% | 2.2% | 1% | A |
| 348 | Pittsfield WI | 2,838 | $100K | 5.7% | 1.1% | 3% | A |
| 349 | Verandah FL | 1,900 | $121K | 3.4% | 3.8% | 6% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 5,328 | Lame Deer MT | 1,872 | $24K | 55.8% | 42.2% | 60% | 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 Rye Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Bordering towns draw 17% of Rye Township’s workers
The biggest share goes to Hampden Township (7%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Rye Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rye Township | – | A | C | 30 min | $102,159 |
| Penn Township | under 3% | A− | C− | 27 min | $59,053 |
| Carroll Township | under 3% | B | C | 33 min | $78,672 |
| Middlesex Township | under 3% | B | D | 18 min | $76,833 |
| Silver Spring Township | 3% | A+ | B | 21 min | $125,102 |
| Wheatfield Township | under 3% | B− | D− | 31 min | $94,200 |
| Hampden Township | 7% | A− | B+ | 23 min | $105,434 |
| Marysville | 3% | B+ | C+ | 23 min | $68,889 |
| East Pennsboro Township | 4% | B+ | B+ | 21 min | $83,388 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Rye 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 Rye Township: questions
What is the median household income in Rye Township?
$102,159 (±$18,261) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Rye Township?
4.5%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Rye Township?
30 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 18% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Rye Township work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Harrisburg (13%, 9 mi), Hampden Township (7%, 6 mi), Susquehanna Township (5%, 9 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Rye Township walkable?
Rye Township is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 3.8 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Rye Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Rye Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Rye 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.