Photo: Jakec · CC BY-SA 4.0Slocum Township has 0.1 jobs for every working resident, so most commute out
65 jobs are based in Slocum Township, against 485 working residents. The two grades for Slocum Township are A− for jobs and income and C for walkability. Only 3% work in Slocum Township itself; outside it, Wilkes-Barre draws the most (13%, 11 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Slocum Township and work: the main findings
What drives the Jobs & income grade in Slocum Township
On income, poverty and job access, Slocum Township is better than 77% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Slocum Township’s grade up (4.6%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 46% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (5.9%) is left out: Slocum Township’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Slocum Township could be anywhere from B to A.
The workday shuffle in and out of Slocum Township
On a workday 471 residents head out to work, 14 work right here, and 51 people come in from elsewhere.
About 660 people are in Slocum Township on a workday afternoon, 39% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Out of Slocum Township to work: where people go
Where Slocum Township clocks in
13% of workers
11% 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 Slocum Township’s employers do
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Slocum Township, 2013 → 2023: 110 → 65. 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 Slocum Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
The trip to work from Slocum Township: about 26 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.3 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Slocum Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 427 commuters (the 20% 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 Slocum Township
About 15% 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.
Slocum Township is a driving town
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Slocum Township is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 3.5% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 3.2.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 537 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). 1.7% of Slocum Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Slocum Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Slocum Township is 427th of 3,771 U.S. towns of 800 to 1,500 on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
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| 8 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 13 | Rose Valley PA | 1,017 | $247K | 2.9% | 1.5% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 25 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 425 | East Galena Township IL | 1,228 | $103K | 2.8% | 4.5% | 4% | A− |
| 426 | Adams Township OH | 1,209 | $107K | 4.0% | 2.5% | 1% | A− |
| 427 | Slocum Township PA | 1,075 | $97K | 4.6% | 5.9% | 3% | A− |
| 428 | Shortsville NY | 1,358 | $91K | 6.6% | 3.3% | 1% | A− |
| 429 | Meeme WI | 1,446 | $99K | 4.2% | 1.3% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,771 | 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.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Slocum Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Slocum Township and the towns next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Slocum Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Slocum Township | – | A− | C | 26 min | $96,719 |
| Conyngham Township | under 3% | C | C+ | 34 min | $60,265 |
| Newport Township | under 3% | C+ | C | 25 min | $57,541 |
| Dorrance Township | 3% | A | C− | 38 min | $98,916 |
| Nuangola | under 3% | — | — | 24 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Nuangola: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Dorrance Township. Darker towns draw more of Slocum 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 Slocum Township: questions
What is the median household income in Slocum Township?
$96,719 (±$17,391) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Slocum Township?
4.6%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Slocum Township?
26 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 20% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Slocum Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Wilkes-Barre (13%, 11 mi), Wright Township (11%, 7 mi), Plains Township (4%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Slocum Township walkable?
Slocum Township is more walkable than 28% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 3.2 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Slocum Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 2% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Slocum Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Slocum 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.