Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0At 1.8%, unemployment in Selinsgrove is lower than in 87% of U.S. towns
About one in seven work in Selinsgrove itself; outside it, Monroe Township draws the most (6%, 4 miles). Selinsgrove grades B+ for jobs and income and A+ for walkability. The average commute takes 14 minutes each way; Pennsylvania averages 26, the U.S. 26.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Selinsgrove, in brief
Why Selinsgrove gets the Jobs & income grade it does
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Selinsgrove is better than 69% of U.S. towns, #468 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Unemployment holds Selinsgrove’s grade up; household income pulls it down ($65,650, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on the poverty rate.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Selinsgrove could be anywhere from B− to A−.
How long Selinsgrove spends getting to work: about 14 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 4.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Selinsgrove workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 2,623 commuters (the 11% 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 a workday changes Selinsgrove
On a workday 1,645 residents head out to work, 241 work right here, and 2,176 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,000 people are in Selinsgrove on a workday afternoon, 10% more than live here.
About as many jobs as working residents (1.28 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2024, primary jobs.
Commuting out of Selinsgrove: the destinations
Where Selinsgrove clocks in
6% of workers
4% of workers
4% 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 Selinsgrove’s employers do
2,417 jobs are based in Selinsgrove.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Selinsgrove, 2014 → 2024: 2,535 → 2,417. 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 Selinsgrove’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Near or far: the trip to work from Selinsgrove
About 25% 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Selinsgrove
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Selinsgrove is more walkable than 95% of U.S. towns, #103 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 30.6% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 9.8.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 2,932 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 Selinsgrove households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Selinsgrove’s commuters take a bus or train.
For jobs and income, Selinsgrove is 1,245th of 3,612 U.S. towns of 3,800 to 7,400
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Ho-Ho-Kus NJ | 4,313 | $250K | 0.0% | 1.7% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 26 | West Vincent Township PA | 6,885 | $203K | 1.4% | 0.8% | 5% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Edgmont Township PA | 4,706 | $137K | 2.4% | 1.1% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 68 | Pocopson Township PA | 4,480 | $230K | 1.3% | 2.2% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,243 | Carlisle Township OH | 7,131 | $87K | 5.8% | 5.7% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,244 | Lochmoor Waterway Estates FL | 6,511 | $98K | 9.6% | 4.1% | 3% | B+ |
| 1,245 | Selinsgrove PA | 5,488 | $66K | 5.1% | 1.8% | 13% | B+ |
| 1,246 | Horseshoe Bay TX | 5,339 | $97K | 4.3% | 2.9% | 12% | B+ |
| 1,247 | Rose Township MI | 6,268 | $107K | 6.0% | 5.6% | 4% | B+ |
| … | |||||||
| 3,612 | Lake Isabella CA | 4,059 | $27K | 40.7% | 8.6% | 19% | 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 Selinsgrove, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Work in the towns next to Selinsgrove
The biggest share goes to Penn Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Selinsgrove workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Selinsgrove | – | B+ | A+ | 14 min | $65,650 |
| Penn Township | 4% | B− | C | 17 min | $61,479 |
| Lower Augusta Township | under 2% | B− | C− | 28 min | $74,688 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Selinsgrove’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 Selinsgrove: questions
What is the median household income in Selinsgrove?
$65,650 (±$10,993) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Selinsgrove?
5.1%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Selinsgrove?
14 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Selinsgrove work?
13% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Monroe Township (6%, 4 mi), Penn Township (4%, 2 mi), Mahoning Township (4%, 18 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Selinsgrove walkable?
Selinsgrove is more walkable than 95% of U.S. towns (Walkability A+): an EPA walkability index of 9.8 out of 20, and 31% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Selinsgrove without a car?
<1% 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 Selinsgrove, from the people who make the trip.
More of Selinsgrove
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.