Gross Bridge · Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0Households in Spring Township earn less than those in 76% of U.S. towns
Spring Township grades D for jobs and income and C for walkability. Poverty touches 14.9% of residents (Pennsylvania 11.7%). Home is the office for 7% of workers, next to 16% for Pennsylvania as a whole.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
The work figures that set Spring Township apart
Spring Township makes and builds things
52% 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 39%. The jobs ↓
Spring Township workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 31 minutes each way, against 26 across Pennsylvania. Over a year that’s about 238 hours of commuting, 38 more than the state’s typical 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; with 645 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
Breaking down the Jobs & income grade for Spring Township
On income, poverty and job access, Spring Township is better than 13% of U.S. towns. All three inputs sit close together, so no single one decides Spring Township’s grade.
Unemployment (1.5%) is left out: Spring 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, Spring Township could be anywhere from D− to C+.
Spring Township makes things: 52% of its jobs are in goods
494 jobs are based in Spring Township.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Spring Township, 2013 → 2023: 417 → 494. 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.
The trip to work from Spring Township: about 31 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 9.8 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 668 commuters (the 7% 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.
Spring Township by day and by night
On a workday 579 residents head out to work, 66 work right here, and 428 people come in from elsewhere.
About as many people by day as by night: the people who leave are replaced by the people who come in.
About as many jobs as working residents (0.77 per resident).
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
6% of working residents work in Middleburg
Where Spring Township clocks in
6% of workers
5% 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.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Spring Township
About 18% 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.
Driving is how Spring Township gets around
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Spring Township is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns. The street layout scores higher than the way people actually get to work: 0.6% 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 716 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). 3.3% 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.
How Spring Township ranks: 4,886th of 6,161 U.S. towns of 1,100 to 2,200
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Chevy Chase Village MD | 1,978 | $250K | 1.2% | 2.6% | 3% | A+ |
| 3 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
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| 13 | Bryn Athyn PA | 1,304 | $143K | 0.3% | 2.6% | 16% | A+ |
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| 32 | Bradford Woods PA | 1,126 | $153K | 1.9% | 1.4% | 2% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 42 | Edgeworth PA | 1,611 | $203K | 3.0% | 3.9% | 4% | A+ |
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| 4,884 | Coldsprings Township MI | 1,611 | $61K | 12.3% | 4.2% | 1% | D |
| 4,885 | Catharine NY | 1,526 | $59K | 20.7% | 7.7% | 4% | D |
| 4,886 | Spring Township PA | 1,629 | $59K | 14.9% | 1.5% | 10% | D |
| 4,887 | Tornillo TX | 1,341 | $50K | 32.2% | 6.6% | 6% | D |
| 4,888 | Oblong IL | 1,352 | $58K | 13.9% | 3.3% | 13% | D |
| … | |||||||
| 6,161 | 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 Spring Township, the top three, the last and three more from Pennsylvania.
Spring Township and the towns next door
The biggest share goes to West Beaver Township (3%).
Average commute minutes, one way
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Spring Township workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Township | – | D | C | 31 min | $58,558 |
| Adams Township | under 3% | — | — | 32 min | — |
| West Beaver Township | 3% | D | D | 29 min | $49,886 |
| West Perry Township | under 3% | C | B− | 31 min | $61,528 |
| Beaver Township | under 3% | — | — | 29 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Adams Township and Beaver Township: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
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?
$58,558 (±$19,827) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $77,971 across Pennsylvania and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Spring Township?
14.9%, against 11.7% across Pennsylvania and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Spring Township?
31 minutes each way on average, against 26 across Pennsylvania and 26 nationally. 7% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Spring Township work?
10% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Middleburg (6%, 10 mi), Penn Township (5%, 18 mi), McClure (5%, 6 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Spring Township walkable?
Spring Township is more walkable than 27% of U.S. towns (Walkability C): an EPA walkability index of 6.5 out of 20, and 1% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Spring Township without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 3% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
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.