Photo: Doug Kerr from Albany, NY, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Sparta Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Jobs and income earn Sparta Township D−; getting around on foot earns it B−. There are 138 jobs in Sparta Township for 568 working residents. Working from home is the commute for 3% of workers (Pennsylvania 16%).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The commute and the jobs: Sparta Township in brief
Sparta Township is a place people come home to
There are 138 jobs based in Sparta Township, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. Day and night ↓
Few Sparta Township workers work from home
Only 3% of workers work from home, against 16% across Pennsylvania. Almost everyone here travels to a job. 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 568 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Sparta Township
On income, poverty and job access, Sparta Township is better than 4% of U.S. towns. Household income holds Sparta Township’s grade up ($57,596, U.S. $80,734); the poverty rate pulls it down (33.9%, U.S. 12.5%).
Unemployment (14.2%) is left out: Sparta 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, Sparta Township could be anywhere from D− to D.
Sparta Township quiets down on a workday
On a workday 547 residents head out to work, 21 work right here, and 117 people come in from elsewhere.
About 1,500 people are in Sparta Township on a workday afternoon, 23% 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.
Sparta Township’s commute takes about 28 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Sparta Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 631 commuters (the 3% 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.
9% of working residents work in Corry
Where Sparta Township clocks in
9% 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.
Goods jobs make up 88% of work in Sparta Township
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Sparta Township, 2013 → 2023: 61 → 138. 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 Sparta Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Sparta Township’s commute, mile by mile
About 20% 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.
For most of Sparta Township, work means a drive
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Sparta Township is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns. How people get to work scores higher than the street layout: 17.4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit, against 8.6% across Pennsylvania, on an EPA index of 3.0.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 649 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). 34.4% of Sparta Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Sparta Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
U.S. towns of 1,300 to 2,500, and where Sparta Township sits
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Plandome NY | 1,482 | $250K | 0.9% | 1.4% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 12 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 35 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| 36 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 5,248 | Piketon OH | 2,201 | $41K | 30.1% | 10.0% | 9% | D− |
| 5,249 | Wautoma WI | 2,411 | $32K | 26.1% | 9.9% | 20% | D− |
| 5,250 | Sparta Township PA | 1,884 | $58K | 33.9% | 14.2% | 4% | D− |
| 5,251 | Cairo IL | 1,515 | $42K | 19.0% | 14.6% | 19% | D− |
| 5,252 | Forsyth MT | 1,652 | $40K | 14.1% | 4.1% | 36% | D− |
| … | |||||||
| 5,656 | Paraje NM | 1,333 | $33K | 61.7% | 0.0% | 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 Sparta Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Next door to Sparta Township
The biggest share goes to Rome Township (4%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Sparta Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sparta Township | – | D− | B− | 28 min | $57,596 |
| Bloomfield Township | 3% | D | C+ | 38 min | $62,721 |
| Concord Township | under 3% | C− | D | 29 min | $68,214 |
| Rome Township | 4% | D | C | 30 min | $58,816 |
| Spring Creek Township | under 3% | — | — | 28 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Spring Creek Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Sparta 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 Sparta Township: questions
What is the median household income in Sparta Township?
$57,596 (±$14,917) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Sparta Township?
33.9%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Sparta Township?
28 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 3% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Sparta Township work?
4% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Corry (9%, 8 mi), Titusville (6%, 13 mi), Erie (6%, 29 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Sparta Township walkable?
Sparta Township is more walkable than 50% of U.S. towns (Walkability B−): an EPA walkability index of 3.0 out of 20, and 17% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Sparta Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 34% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Sparta Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Sparta 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.