Photo: Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Silver Spring Township earn more than those in 90% of U.S. towns
4.6% of residents live below the poverty line, next to 11.7% for Pennsylvania as a whole. Jobs and income earn Silver Spring Township A+; getting around on foot earns it B. Working from home is the commute for 28% of workers, against 16% across Pennsylvania.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Getting to work from Silver Spring Township, in brief
Home offices are common in Silver Spring Township
28% of Silver Spring Township workers work from home, against 16% across Pennsylvania. Time on the road ↓
Silver Spring Township is where the jobs are
Silver Spring Township has 13,114 jobs, 1.5 for every working resident. Day and night ↓
Silver Spring Township draws workers from far and wide
The 13,114 jobs in Silver Spring Township are filled from a wide area. Silver Spring Township’s own residents hold 8% and the ten next-biggest home towns 27%; the other 65% come from many towns beyond those. The commute map ↓
Commutes from Silver Spring Township 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.
Income, poverty and work: Silver Spring Township’s grade explained
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Silver Spring Township is better than 96% of U.S. towns, #48 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. All four inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Silver Spring Township’s grade. It also does well on the poverty rate and unemployment and job access by car.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Silver Spring Township could be anywhere from A to A+.
How long Silver Spring Township spends getting to work: about 21 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.7 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Silver Spring Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 7,158 commuters (the 28% 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.
The daily commute in and out of Silver Spring Township
On a workday 7,573 residents head out to work, 1,032 work right here, and 12,082 people come in from elsewhere.
About 26,000 people are in Silver Spring Township on a workday afternoon, 21% more than live here.
1.5 jobs for every working resident, so more people commute in than out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Commuting in to Silver Spring Township: where workers come from
Where Silver Spring Township clocks in
10% of workers
8% 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.
65% of the jobs in Silver Spring Township pay over $3,333 a month
13,114 jobs are based in Silver Spring Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Silver Spring Township, 2013 → 2023: 9,897 → 13,114. 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 Silver Spring Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The commute from Silver Spring Township, by distance
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.
In Silver Spring Township, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Silver Spring Township is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns, #503 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 1.8% 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 9,918 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 0% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 0% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about under 0.1 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 20% of the 9,825 U.S. towns with transit data.
Transit at the evening rush trips an hour stopping within ¼ mile of the typical resident, EPA 2020
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 2.0% of Silver Spring Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Silver Spring Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Silver Spring Township is 108th of 1,787 U.S. towns of 15,000 to 29,000 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rogers MN | 15,606 | $159K | 1.9% | 1.2% | 10% | A+ |
| 2 | West Springfield VA | 22,532 | $163K | 1.9% | 1.7% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Wolf Trap VA | 15,858 | $250K | 3.1% | 2.0% | 2% | A+ |
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| 7 | Upper Dublin Township PA | 27,258 | $168K | 3.2% | 1.9% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | West Whiteland Township PA | 20,826 | $133K | 3.0% | 1.7% | 7% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 33 | South Fayette Township PA | 18,648 | $124K | 3.6% | 1.2% | 8% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 106 | North Reading MA | 16,553 | $148K | 2.7% | 3.6% | 8% | A+ |
| 107 | Millburn Township NJ | 22,874 | $250K | 3.0% | 4.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 108 | Silver Spring Township PA | 21,670 | $125K | 4.6% | 1.7% | 12% | A+ |
| 109 | Barrington RI | 16,961 | $153K | 4.5% | 2.6% | 11% | A+ |
| 110 | Mililani Mauka HI | 21,278 | $139K | 3.3% | 2.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,787 | 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 Silver Spring Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Silver Spring Township and its neighbors: 11% work next door
The biggest share goes to Hampden Township (8%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Silver Spring Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Spring Township | – | A+ | B | 21 min | $125,102 |
| Hampden Township | 8% | A− | B+ | 23 min | $105,434 |
| Middlesex Township | under 3% | B | D | 18 min | $76,833 |
| Monroe Township | under 3% | A | C | 24 min | $124,443 |
| Mechanicsburg | under 3% | A | A− | 25 min | $84,421 |
| Rye Township | under 3% | A | C | 30 min | $102,159 |
| South Middleton Township | 3% | A− | C+ | 23 min | $92,421 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Silver Spring 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 Silver Spring Township: questions
What is the median household income in Silver Spring Township?
$125,102 (±$4,837) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Silver Spring Township?
4.6%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Silver Spring Township?
21 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 28% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Silver Spring Township work?
12% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Harrisburg (10%, 9 mi), Hampden Township (8%, 4 mi), Lower Paxton Township (5%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Silver Spring Township walkable?
Silver Spring Township is more walkable than 60% of U.S. towns (Walkability B): an EPA walkability index of 8.3 out of 20, and 2% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Silver Spring Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. 0% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Silver Spring Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Silver Spring 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.