Photo: Mr. Matté (if there is an issue with this image, contact me using this image's Commons talk page, my Commons user talk page, or my English Wikipedia user talk page; I'll know about it a lot faster) · CC BY-SA 4.0Spring Brook Township has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Employers in Spring Brook Township report 205 jobs for 1,034 working residents. For jobs and income Spring Brook Township is better than 52% of U.S. towns (B−); for walkability it is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (D). Only 3% work in Spring Brook Township; the top destination outside it is Scranton (15%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Spring Brook Township at work: what stands out
Spring Brook Township is a place people come home to
There are 205 jobs based in Spring Brook Township, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Spring Brook Township has about 2,000 people in it, 29% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
A lot of Spring Brook Township works one town over
28% of working residents work in a town that borders Spring Brook Township: Scranton (15%), Covington Township (8%) and Moscow (3%). Next door ↓
Fewer jobs are based in Spring Brook Township than ten years ago
Jobs counted in Spring Brook Township fell from 300 in 2013 to 205 in 2023, −32%. 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.
Income, poverty and work: Spring Brook Township’s grade explained
The poverty rate holds Spring Brook Township’s grade up (6.0%, U.S. 12.5%); unemployment pulls it down (5.3%, U.S. 5.2%). It also does well on job access by car.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Spring Brook Township could be anywhere from C to A.
The daily commute in and out of Spring Brook Township
On a workday 1,007 residents head out to work, 27 work right here, and 178 people come in from elsewhere.
About 2,000 people are in Spring Brook Township on a workday afternoon, 29% 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.
Jobs in Spring Brook Township: what the 205 are
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Spring Brook Township, 2013 → 2023: 300 → 205. 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 Spring Brook Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Where people from Spring Brook Township work
Where Spring Brook Township clocks in
15% 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.
Commuting from Spring Brook Township: about 29 minutes a trip
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Spring Brook Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 1,240 commuters (the 12% 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 commute from Spring Brook Township, by distance
About 21% 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.
Few in Spring Brook Township walk, bike or ride to work
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 1,408 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). 3.9% of Spring Brook Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Spring Brook Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
Spring Brook Township is 2,139th of 4,703 U.S. towns of 2,000 to 3,800 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kenilworth IL | 2,437 | $250K | 2.1% | 4.0% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Riverwoods IL | 3,766 | $249K | 0.7% | 0.7% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Belle Meade TN | 2,621 | $250K | 1.4% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 20 | Wallace Township PA | 3,759 | $183K | 1.9% | 0.0% | 3% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 30 | Newtown PA | 2,257 | $166K | 2.0% | 2.3% | 6% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 65 | Churchill PA | 3,014 | $107K | 1.9% | 1.6% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 2,137 | Lyons WI | 3,635 | $84K | 9.8% | 6.0% | 2% | B− |
| 2,138 | Altamont IL | 2,186 | $76K | 15.1% | 0.3% | 15% | B− |
| 2,139 | Spring Brook Township PA | 2,817 | $70K | 6.0% | 5.3% | 3% | B− |
| 2,140 | Brackenridge PA | 3,093 | $50K | 15.1% | 1.9% | 2% | B− |
| 2,141 | Readfield ME | 2,730 | $87K | 5.0% | 6.3% | 11% | B− |
| … | |||||||
| 4,703 | Cibecue AZ | 2,228 | $26K | 57.2% | 13.3% | 12% | 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 Spring Brook Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Spring Brook Township and its neighbors: 28% work next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Spring Brook Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Brook Township | – | B− | D | 29 min | $69,821 |
| Pittston Township | 2% | A− | B+ | 26 min | $68,702 |
| Covington Township | 8% | A− | B+ | 26 min | $100,313 |
| Thornhurst Township | under 2% | C | D− | 38 min | $71,625 |
| Moscow | 3% | A− | B− | 22 min | $82,031 |
| Clifton Township | under 2% | C | C− | 23 min | $56,705 |
| Jenkins Township | under 2% | C+ | C | 19 min | $54,878 |
| Scranton | 15% | C | A | 19 min | $50,739 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Scranton. Darker towns draw more of Spring Brook 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 Spring Brook Township: questions
What is the median household income in Spring Brook Township?
$69,821 (±$18,055) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Spring Brook Township?
6.0%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Spring Brook Township?
29 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Spring Brook Township work?
3% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Scranton (15%, 7 mi), Covington Township (8%, 7 mi), Dunmore (5%, 7 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Spring Brook Township walkable?
Spring Brook Township is more walkable than 14% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.9 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Spring Brook Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 4% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Spring Brook Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of Spring Brook 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.