Logan Furnace Mansion · Photo: Pubdog · Public domainMost of Spring Township commutes out: there are 0.6 jobs for every working resident
Employers in Spring Township report 1,864 jobs for 3,377 working residents. Jobs and income earn Spring Township B; getting around on foot earns it B+. Only 6% stay in Spring Township for work; outside it, College Township is the main destination (25%, 7 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Spring Township and work: the main findings
Spring Township makes and builds things
43% of the jobs based in Spring Township are in goods: factories, construction and farms. Across the jobs Spring Township residents hold, wherever they work, it’s 14%. The jobs ↓
Most Spring Township residents work close to home
64% of working residents have their main job less than 10 miles from home, about two in three. How far ↓
Commutes from Spring Township are quick
The average trip to work takes 20 minutes, against 26 across Pennsylvania. That’s about 46 hours a year less on the road than the typical Pennsylvania worker, and quicker than any town next door (23 to 27 minutes). 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.
How Spring Township earns its Jobs & income grade
On income, poverty, unemployment and job access, Spring Township is better than 60% of U.S. towns, #581 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. The poverty rate holds Spring Township’s grade up (6.7%, 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 and unemployment.
A rough placement. Within the Census margins of error for income, poverty and unemployment, Spring Township could be anywhere from C to A−.
Spring Township makes things: 43% of its jobs are in goods
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Spring Township, 2013 → 2023: 1,716 → 1,864. 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 Township’s own residents hold wherever they work.
How many miles Spring Township commutes
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.
About 20 minutes each way for Spring Township’s commuters
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 6.5 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Spring Township workers work from home, vs 16% across Pennsylvania. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 4,024 commuters (the 10% 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 Spring Township
On a workday 3,167 residents head out to work, 210 work right here, and 1,654 people come in from elsewhere.
About 6,700 people are in Spring Township on a workday afternoon, 18% 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.
Where Spring Township’s working residents head each day
Where Spring Township clocks in
25% of workers
9% 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.
In Spring Township, most people drive to work
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Spring Township is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns, #398 of 1,035 in Pennsylvania. Both inputs place Spring Township near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 4,486 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service (shown, not graded). 37% of residents live within a ¾-mile walk of a bus or train stop, 27% within a quarter mile. At the weekday evening rush, about 1.9 trips an hour stop near the typical resident, more than in 67% 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). 8.1% of Spring Township households have no vehicle (Pennsylvania 10.4%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Spring Township’s commuters take a bus or train.
1,477th of 3,034: where Spring Township ranks among U.S. towns of 5,700 to 11,100
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huntington Woods MI | 6,274 | $190K | 2.2% | 0.9% | 2% | A+ |
| 2 | Glendale MO | 6,060 | $171K | 2.0% | 0.3% | 2% | A+ |
| 3 | Des Peres MO | 9,102 | $224K | 2.0% | 0.5% | 5% | A+ |
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| 21 | West Vincent Township PA | 6,885 | $203K | 1.4% | 0.8% | 4% | A+ |
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| 51 | Bethel Township PA | 9,774 | $177K | 1.8% | 2.3% | 2% | A+ |
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| 59 | Upper Nazareth Township PA | 8,521 | $122K | 1.2% | 0.9% | 4% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 1,475 | Lincoln Village OH | 8,928 | $54K | 11.7% | 2.6% | 2% | B |
| 1,476 | Germantown OH | 5,947 | $90K | 7.6% | 6.9% | 6% | B |
| 1,477 | Spring Township PA | 8,195 | $77K | 6.7% | 3.7% | 6% | B |
| 1,478 | Brownstown Township IN | 5,851 | $72K | 7.3% | 1.9% | 19% | B |
| 1,479 | Bagley Township MI | 6,104 | $77K | 6.7% | 2.0% | 5% | B |
| … | |||||||
| 3,034 | Shiprock NM | 7,610 | $36K | 34.6% | 14.9% | 14% | 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 Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
10% of Spring Township works in a town next door
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Spring Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Township | – | B | B+ | 20 min | $77,266 |
| Benner Township | 6% | B+ | C− | 24 min | $101,228 |
| Boggs Township | 2% | B− | C | 23 min | $67,500 |
| Potter Township | 1% | B | C− | 25 min | $75,385 |
| Walker Township | 1% | C+ | D | 27 min | $88,866 |
Same-state neighbors only. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
The biggest share goes to Benner Township. Darker towns draw more of 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 Spring Township: questions
What is the median household income in Spring Township?
$77,266 (±$12,426) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Spring Township?
6.7%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Spring Township?
20 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 10% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Spring Township work?
6% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are College Township (25%, 7 mi), State College (9%, 10 mi), Bellefonte (8%, 2 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Spring Township walkable?
Spring Township is more walkable than 71% of U.S. towns (Walkability B+): an EPA walkability index of 7.9 out of 20, and 4% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Spring Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 8% of households have no car. 27% of residents live within a quarter mile of a stop.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Spring Township, from the people who make the trip.
More of 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.