Photo: Adam Moss from East Amherst, New York, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Shinglehouse’s household incomes are lower than in 91% of U.S. towns
Jobs & income C−: better than 17% of U.S. towns on income, poverty and job access.
Walkability A: more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns.
Working residents average 21 minutes each way (Pennsylvania 26, U.S. 26). About one in ten work in Shinglehouse; the top destination outside it is Coudersport (11%, 16 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work and commuting in Shinglehouse, in brief
A lot of Shinglehouse workers cross into New York
28% of Shinglehouse workers work outside Pennsylvania, the Census survey finds. In the commute data, Olean (9%), Wellsville (6%) and Portville (2%) are among the top workplaces. The commute map ↓
Shinglehouse makes and builds things
41% of the jobs based in Shinglehouse are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Shinglehouse residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 22%. The jobs ↓
Commutes from Shinglehouse are quick
The average trip to work takes 21 minutes, against 26 across Pennsylvania. That’s about 38 hours a year less on the road than the typical Pennsylvania worker. Time on the road ↓
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; with 363 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
What’s behind Shinglehouse’s Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty and job access, Shinglehouse is better than 17% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Shinglehouse’s grade up (9.0%, U.S. 12.5%); household income pulls it down ($47,315, U.S. $80,734).
Unemployment (2.7%) is left out: Shinglehouse’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, Shinglehouse could be anywhere from D− to B−.
11% of working residents work in Coudersport
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Where Shinglehouse clocks in
11% of workers
9% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
Shinglehouse makes things: 41% of its jobs are in goods
312 jobs are based in Shinglehouse. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Shinglehouse’s own residents hold wherever they work.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Shinglehouse, 2013 → 2023: 357 → 312. 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.
About 21 minutes each way, quicker than most of Pennsylvania
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Shinglehouse workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 516 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.
Who leaves, who stays, who comes in
On a workday 326 residents head out to work, 37 work right here, and 275 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 (0.86 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.
Half of Shinglehouse commutes less than 17 miles
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
About 24% 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.
Shinglehouse is more walkable than most U.S. towns, with limited transit
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Shinglehouse is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 13.9% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 8.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 548 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). 6.9% of Shinglehouse households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Shinglehouse’s commuters take a bus or train.
Shinglehouse is 2,233rd of 3,133 U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400 on jobs and income
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Shinglehouse, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
| # | 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% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 7 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 11 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 22 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,231 | Metlakatla AK | 1,235 | $72K | 13.5% | 7.6% | — | C− |
| 2,232 | Whitewater CA | 1,181 | $78K | 23.4% | 18.5% | 3% | C− |
| 2,233 | Shinglehouse PA | 1,060 | $47K | 9.0% | 2.7% | 10% | C− |
| 2,234 | Pittsfield Township PA | 1,232 | $65K | 12.9% | 5.6% | 2% | C− |
| 2,235 | Kingston WI | 1,107 | $83K | 27.8% | 1.9% | 1% | C− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | 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.
Shinglehouse and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to Sharon Township (3%). Darker towns draw more of Shinglehouse’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Shinglehouse workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shinglehouse | – | C− | A | 21 min | $47,315 |
| Sharon Township | 3% | — | — | 28 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Sharon Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
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 Shinglehouse: questions
What is the median household income in Shinglehouse?
$47,315 (±$13,697) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Shinglehouse?
9.0%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Shinglehouse?
21 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 6% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Shinglehouse work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Coudersport (11%, 16 mi), Olean (9%, 15 mi), Eulalia Township (7%, 16 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Shinglehouse walkable?
Shinglehouse is more walkable than 88% of U.S. towns (Walkability A): an EPA walkability index of 8.0 out of 20, and 14% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Shinglehouse without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 7% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Shinglehouse, from the people who make the trip.
More of Shinglehouse
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.