Photo: Dreajc10 · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Sharon are lower than in 92% of U.S. towns
For jobs and income Sharon is better than 16% of U.S. towns (C−); for walkability it is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns (A−). Below the poverty line: 20.0% of residents, next to 11.7% across Pennsylvania. Home is the office for 6% of workers (Pennsylvania 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Sharon: the figures worth knowing
Sharon trades workers with the towns around it
Sharon has about as many jobs (4,152) as working residents (4,879), but they are mostly different people: 4,209 residents leave for work each day while 3,482 people come in. Only 16% of the jobs in Sharon are held by people who live here. Day and night ↓
Sharon and Hermitage trade workers both ways
Hermitage is the top workplace for Sharon residents (21%) and also where the most people who work in Sharon come from (15% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Commutes from Sharon are quick
The average trip to work takes 18 minutes, against 26 across Pennsylvania. That’s about 61 hours a year less on the road than the typical Pennsylvania worker. Time on the road ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Sharon than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Sharon fell from 5,835 in 2013 to 4,152 in 2023, −29%. That can be real closings or a large employer now reporting its workers at another address; the data can’t tell the two apart. The jobs ↓
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.
Jobs & income in Sharon: the grade in detail
Job access by car holds Sharon’s grade up (ahead of 72% of U.S. towns); unemployment pulls it down (9.4%, U.S. 5.2%).
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Sharon could be anywhere from D to C.
The daily commute in and out of Sharon
On a workday 4,209 residents head out to work, 670 work right here, and 3,482 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 (0.85 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
21% of working residents work in Hermitage
Where Sharon clocks in
21% of workers
4% of workers
2% 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 18 minutes each way, quicker than most of Pennsylvania
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 5.9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sharon workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,943 commuters (the 6% 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.
What the 4,152 jobs in Sharon are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sharon, 2013 → 2023: 5,835 → 4,152. 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 Sharon’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The distance from Sharon 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.
Walkable streets, thin transit: Sharon
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 5,240 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). 18.7% of Sharon households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). <1% of Sharon’s commuters take a bus or train.
Sharon next to U.S. towns of 9,000 to 17,000
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
| 2 | Beverly Hills MI | 10,449 | $177K | 1.7% | 1.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | New Albany OH | 11,803 | $238K | 1.4% | 0.9% | 11% | A+ |
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| 20 | Lower Moreland Township PA | 14,116 | $154K | 2.6% | 2.0% | 6% | A+ |
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| 37 | Bethel Township PA | 9,774 | $177K | 1.8% | 2.3% | 2% | A+ |
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| 41 | Skippack Township PA | 14,502 | $148K | 2.5% | 2.4% | 5% | A+ |
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| 2,128 | Riverdale IL | 10,280 | $40K | 41.5% | 16.1% | 2% | C− |
| 2,129 | Sault Ste. Marie MI | 13,083 | $55K | 17.8% | 4.9% | 60% | C− |
| 2,130 | Sharon PA | 12,648 | $46K | 20.0% | 9.4% | 14% | C− |
| 2,131 | Baker LA | 12,136 | $55K | 29.8% | 16.6% | 4% | C− |
| 2,132 | Rock Island Township IL | 15,632 | $41K | 32.9% | 7.4% | 12% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 2,354 | Douglas AZ | 16,038 | $42K | 27.8% | 12.3% | 29% | 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 Sharon, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
25% of Sharon works in a town next door
The biggest share goes to Hermitage (21%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
Darker towns draw more of Sharon’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 Sharon: questions
What is the median household income in Sharon?
$45,670 (±$5,603) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sharon?
20.0%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sharon?
18 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sharon work?
14% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Hermitage (21%, 3 mi), Farrell (4%, 2 mi), Pittsburgh (2%, 61 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sharon walkable?
Sharon is more walkable than 75% of U.S. towns (Walkability A−): an EPA walkability index of 8.5 out of 20, and 3% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sharon without a car?
<1% of commuters take transit and 19% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sharon, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sharon
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.