Photo: Jakec · CC BY-SA 4.0Jobs and the daily commute in Shamokin Dam
Home is the office for 7% of workers; Pennsylvania has 16%. For jobs and income Shamokin Dam is better than 61% of U.S. towns (B); for walkability it is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (B−). Only 2% work in Shamokin Dam; the top destination outside it is Monroe Township (8%, 2 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2024, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
What sets Shamokin Dam apart on work
The better-paid jobs are outside Shamokin Dam
62% of Shamokin Dam residents earn over $3,333 a month (about $40,000 a year) at their main job, but only 35% of the jobs based in Shamokin Dam pay that much. Most residents work elsewhere: 98% leave town for their job. The jobs ↓
Many jobs in Shamokin Dam pay little
31% of the jobs based in Shamokin Dam pay $1,250 a month or less, under $15,000 a year. Young workers hold many of them: 40% of all the jobs here go to people 29 or younger. The jobs ↓
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 722 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Income, poverty and work: Shamokin Dam’s grade explained
The poverty rate holds Shamokin Dam’s grade up (5.6%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($69,063, U.S. $80,734). It also does well on job access by car.
Unemployment (1.5%) is left out: Shamokin Dam’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, Shamokin Dam could be anywhere from C+ to A−.
What work there is in Shamokin Dam: 780 jobs
780 jobs are based in Shamokin Dam.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Shamokin Dam, 2014 → 2024: 907 → 780. 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 Shamokin Dam’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Who works in Shamokin Dam, and who works elsewhere
On a workday 705 residents head out to work, 17 work right here, and 763 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 (1.08 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 Shamokin Dam: the destinations
Where Shamokin Dam clocks in
8% of workers
6% of workers
6% 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.
About 23 minutes each way for Shamokin Dam’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 7.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Shamokin Dam workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 860 commuters (the 7% 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.
Miles to work from Shamokin Dam
About 19% 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.
Most trips from Shamokin Dam start in a car
The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, below the 8.6% across Pennsylvania.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 921 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). 4.2% of Shamokin Dam households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Shamokin Dam’s commuters take a bus or train.
Ranked on jobs and income, Shamokin Dam is 1,624th among 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | 1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 17% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 32 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,622 | Bell Canyon CA | 2,177 | $250K | 0.7% | 8.7% | 3% | B |
| 1,623 | Thorntown IN | 1,426 | $74K | 8.5% | 1.4% | 1% | B |
| 1,624 | Shamokin Dam PA | 1,623 | $69K | 5.6% | 1.5% | 2% | B |
| 1,625 | Bearcreek Township IN | 1,598 | $77K | 1.7% | 0.8% | 1% | B |
| 1,626 | Charleston NY | 1,356 | $91K | 4.1% | 7.3% | 2% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 7% | 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 Shamokin Dam, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Shamokin Dam and its neighbors
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Shamokin Dam workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shamokin Dam | – | B | B− | 23 min | $69,063 |
| Monroe Township | 8% | A− | B− | 27 min | $90,417 |
| Upper Augusta Township | under 3% | B+ | C+ | 25 min | $68,750 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Monroe Township. Darker towns draw more of Shamokin Dam’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 Shamokin Dam: questions
What is the median household income in Shamokin Dam?
$69,063 (±$13,666) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Shamokin Dam?
5.6%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Shamokin Dam?
23 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Shamokin Dam work?
2% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Monroe Township (8%, 2 mi), Selinsgrove (6%, 4 mi), Penn Township (6%, 5 mi) (Census LEHD 2024).
Is Shamokin Dam walkable?
Shamokin Dam is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 9.2 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Shamokin Dam without a car?
<1% 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 Shamokin Dam, from the people who make the trip.
More of Shamokin Dam
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.